Oct. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1841

"(b) An employee in Division I, while absent from his headquarters on relief duty, shall, subject to paragraph (e) of this regulation, be paid relieving-allowance for personal expenses at the following rates in each case:—

"(i) An employee whose salary does not exceed £155 per annum: Actual reasonable expenses.

"(ii) An employee whose salary exceeds £155 per annum but does not exceed £295 per annum, if absent for not more than six days, shall be entitled to 12s. 6d. per day. If the absence exceeds six days but the employee is not more than six days in any one locality he shall be entitled to the allowance of 12s. 6d. throughout the whole of the period of absence. If, however, while so absent, the employee remains in any one locality for more than six days he shall only be entitled to 10s. per day while in such locality: Provided that the total allowance payable in respect of the employee's stay in such locality shall not be less than £3 15s.

"(iii) An employee whose salary exceeds £295 per annum but does not exceed £470 per annum shall be entitled to 12s. 6d. per day.

"(iv) Employees whose salaries exceed £470 per annum: At the rate prescribed for travelling-allowance in each case.

"(c) If any employee in Division I, while travelling on relief or other duty, is provided with a berth in a sleeping-car, or sleeping-accommodation on sea journeys which do not occupy more than twenty-four hours, the claim for travelling or relieving allowance, as the case may be, shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-quarter of the prescribed daily rate for each occasion on which a berth or other sleeping-accommodation as aforesaid is provided.

"(d) 'Day,' for the purposes of this regulation, means a period of twenty-four hours, and no distinction between Sunday and any other day is recognized in such period. The period for which travelling or relieving allowance shall be payable shall in each case be calculated from the time of departure of the employee concerned from his headquarters in pursuance of the duty on which he is required to travel until his return thereto. For any portion of a day the rate shall be one twenty-fourth of the prescribed daily rate for each hour's absence from headquarters. In computing the period of such absence a fraction of an hour, if less than half an hour, shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.

"(e) No employee who is entitled to be paid lodging-allowance shall be entitled to claim such allowance concurrently with travelling or relieving allowance for any continuous period exceeding one week. When any such employee becomes entitled to payment of travelling or relieving allowance for any continuous period exceeding one week, the amount paid or payable to him as lodging-allowance for such period shall be deducted from the amount payable to him by way of travelling or relieving allowance for the same period.

"(f) No employee who is entitled to be paid relieving-allowance shall also be paid travelling-allowance in respect of the same absence from headquarters: Provided, however, that when an employee performs relieving duty, and in the course thereof is absent from his headquarters for not more than three days at the same place, he may be paid travelling-allowance instead of relieving-allowance in respect of the time during which he is relieving at such place: Provided, further, that, if an employee is occupied for not less than six hours in travelling to or from his headquarters on relieving duty, he may be paid travelling-allowance instead of relieving-allowance in respect of each day on which he is so occupied.

"94. Every employee in the Lake Wakatipu steamer service shall, in respect of each day on which he is actually on duty on board ship, and for every day on which he is laid off duty as compensation for overtime worked by him or for the purpose of adjusting his hours of duty so as to avoid his working overtime, and for every Sunday, be paid an allowance of 4s. 6d.: Provided, however, that such allowance shall not be paid in respect of any day on which such employee is on leave of absence or is off duty on his own account, or on which he is supplied with meals by the Department.

"101. (1) Time worked by any employee in Division I between midnight on any Saturday and midnight on the first following Sunday (hereinafter called 'Sunday time') in pursuance of authority given in that behalf by the General Manager shall, subject to the provisions of the regulations, be paid for at the rate set out in paragraph (2) hereof in each case.

"(2) Payment will be made to employees in Division I for Sunday time at the following rates respectively: To employees in receipt of over £270 per annum, 4s. per hour; to employees in receipt of over £200 and not more than £270 per annum, 3s. 9d. per hour; to employees in receipt of over £165 and not more than £200 per annum, 3s. per hour; to employees in receipt of not more than £165 per annum, 2s. 3d. per hour.

"(3) If and whenever an employee in Division I is specially brought on duty on Sunday other than to commence a shift forming part of his ordinary week's work he shall be deemed to have worked not less than four hours.

"(4) In the case of any employee in Division I who is specially booked on duty on Sunday there shall not be more than one break in the continuity of such employee's time on any Sunday between the times of his being first booked on duty and his being finally booked off duty for the day: Provided, however, that when any such employee is booked off duty on any Sunday to enable him to obtain meals for a period not exceeding one hour for each meal such booking-off shall not be deemed not to be a break in the continuity of such employee's time on such Sunday."

The foregoing regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1936.

Dated this 7th day of October, 1936.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending a License authorizing Hume (Cobb River) Electric-power Company, Limited, to use Water from the Cobb River for the Purpose of generating Electricity and to erect certain Electric Lines.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of October, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and with the consent of the licensee, doth hereby amend as set forth in the First Schedule hereto the license firstly described in the Second Schedule hereto, as affected by the Order in Council secondly described in that Schedule, the said licenses being now vested in the Hume (Cobb River) Electric-power Company, Limited, by virtue of the assignment to which the consent of the Governor-General in Council was given on the ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, and published in the Gazette on the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, at page 1710.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The licensee is hereby empowered to take under the Public Works Act, 1928, as for a public work, such land as may, in the opinion of the Governor-General, be necessary for the construction and proper carrying-out of the works authorized by the license. The authority hereby conferred is expressly granted subject to the provisions of the Water-power Regulations, 1934, and of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1935.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

(1) Order in Council dated the 12th day of July, 1935, published in the Gazette on the 18th day of the same month, at page 1941, authorizing the Hume Pipe Company (Australia), Limited, to use water from the Cobb River for the purpose of generating electricity and to erect certain electric lines.

(2) Order in Council dated the 19th day of August, 1936, published in the Gazette on the 20th day of the same month, at page 1611, amending the Order in Council firstly described in this Schedule.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 26/910.)