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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Member of Peel Forest Board appointed.

Lands and Survey Department,
Wellington, 8th March, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 7 (c) of the Peel Forest Act, 1926, been pleased to appoint

Hugh John Dyke Acland, M.P.,

to be a member of the Peel Forest Board in place of Henry Dyke Acland, deceased.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 6th March, 1943.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Frederick Griffiths Watkins

to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the Fisheries Act, 1908, on and from the 1st day of January, 1943.

Michael Thaddeus John Curran

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kaiapoi, on and from the 15th day of February, 1943.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

By-laws of Patea Fire Board approved.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1943.

PURSUANT to section 60 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, the Minister charged for the time being with the administration of the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, doth hereby notify that by-laws made by the Patea Fire Board, dated the 9th day of February, 1943, have been approved.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/2/13.)

Ford Motor Company of New Zealand, Limited, Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943.

PURSUANT to the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Ford Motor Company of New Zealand, Limited, Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943.

2. This Order applies to those employees of Ford Motor Company of New Zealand, Limited, working under the New Zealand Metal Trades Employees’ award and the New Zealand Motor Mechanics’ award and to the employers of such workers.

3. The provisions of all Acts and regulations and Orders thereunder, and of all awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all other voluntary agreements affecting conditions of employment of the workers hereinbefore mentioned are hereby suspended, subject, however, to the terms, conditions, and exceptions hereinafter set forth.

4. The Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940 and the Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1942 and any amendments thereof prescribing the conditions of employment in essential undertakings shall not be suspended or affected by this Order.

5. Unless otherwise provided in this Order the conditions of employment affecting rates of pay and holidays are to be the conditions applicable under the particular award normally covering the work on which an employee is engaged.

Hours of Work.

6. Forty hours shall constitute an ordinary week’s work, of which not more than eight hours may be worked on each day from Monday to Friday inclusive, and between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. The time of starting and ceasing work between these hours shall be mutually arranged, with a break of not more than one hour for lunch.

Wages of Female Employees.

7. (a) Notwithstanding any award provisions allowing a smaller wage-rate a minimum wage-rate of £3 11s. 8d. per week, inclusive of all general award increases to the date of this Order, shall be paid to all females who are twenty-one years of age and over.

(b) In the case of females under twenty-one years of age the appropriate award rates, inclusive of all general increases to the date of this Order, shall be increased by 6s. 8d. per week.

(c) All females shall receive an allowance of 6d. per hour whilst employed in the explosives sections and provided they are willing to perform any duties in any part of those sections as directed by the management.

Period Work.

8. (a) In any case where the company operates any department or section of its business on double staff, then, notwithstanding anything contained in clause 6, the standard period of work may be varied and paid for at ordinary rates except that male employees engaged for any period commencing before 7 a.m. or after 10 a.m. shall be paid, in addition to their ordinary wages, an extra payment of 15s. per week, and female employees engaged for any period commencing before 7 a.m. or after 10 a.m. shall be paid, in addition to their ordinary wages, an extra payment of 10s. per week.

(b) Where practicable employees so engaged are to be rotated with others on like work.

Overtime.

9. (a) Except as provided in clause 8 and subclause (b) of this clause all work done on Monday to Friday inclusive in excess of eight hours in any one day or outside the hours of 7.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in any such day shall count as overtime, and shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours in any day and double time thereafter.

(b) Except as provided in clause 8 any employee who is called back after 10 p.m. on any day, Monday to Friday inclusive, or after 12 noon on Saturday shall be paid double time rates.

(c) In addition to any extra payment provided for in clause 8 hereof in respect of periods of work outside the standard period of work, overtime shall be paid for all hours worked in excess of eight hours in any one day and shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter: Provided that overtime rates shall not be payable where the overtime arises from arrangements between employees themselves.

(d) For all work on Saturdays time and a half rates shall be paid for the first four hours and thereafter double time rates.

(e) For all work on Sundays double time rates shall be paid, and whole holidays are to be paid for in accordance with the Overtime and Holidays Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1941.

Meal Interval.

10. No employee shall be required to work more than five hours continuously without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal.

Rest Period.

11. Because of the special nature of some of the work, it will not in all cases be possible to allow to female employees the usual rest period of ten minutes. Those female employees who are not allowed the usual rest period are to be compensated by an extra payment of 1d. per hour.

Meal-money.

12. An allowance of 1s. 7d. meal-money shall be paid to any employee who is required to work more than one and a half hours beyond the normal finishing time of any period.

Allowance to Male Workers.

13. All male workers shall receive an allowance of 3d. per hour whilst employed in the explosives sections and provided they are willing to perform any duties in any part of those sections as directed by the management.

Conveyance of Employees.

14. The employer shall negotiate with the transport authorities on behalf of employees for suitable transportation facilities to operate at the times of starting and stopping of work.

15. This Order shall come into effect on and from the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1943.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940.

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to drivers of heavy trade-motors, shall not apply to Robert Alexander Paterson, of Kumeu.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of March, 1943.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/6.)

The Rakaia and District Commodities Delivery Scheme, 1943, Amendment No. 1.

PURSUANT to the Delivery Emergency Regulations 1942, the Minister of Transport doth hereby give notice as follows:—

1. This notice may be cited as the Rakaia and District Commodities Delivery Scheme, 1943, Amendment No. 1, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Rakaia and District Commodities Delivery Notice 1943 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal scheme”).

2. The principal scheme is hereby amended by deleting from clause (2) in the description of the area allotted to Pye and Co., Ltd., Grocers, Rakaia, all the words after “Hardy’s Stores, Ltd.,” and substituting in place thereof the following:—

“Stevens, H. J., Grocer, Lauriston.

“Weekly deliveries permitted—Mondays: Lauriston to Ashburton via Shepherds Bush Road and Winchmore Road, serving customers as far as point where strikes latter road, then to Ashburton for goods, and picking up customers again