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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

proposal to borrow £3,000 under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and its amendments, for the purpose of constructing a complete system of drainage in the Eden Terrace Road District, was as follows:—

Number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 79; number of valid votes recorded against the proposal, 36; informal, 4.

As the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal is more than three-fifths of the total valid votes recorded at the poll, I declare the proposal to be carried.

JOHN T. HOUGH,
Chairman, Eden Terrace Road Board.
Road Board Office, Eden Terrace,
Auckland, 28th January, 1901.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse or place of security for the manufacture therein of perfumery and other articles in which spirit is a necessary ingredient, namely,—

Port of Auckland.

Portion of a stone building roofed with iron, situate on Lot 9, Section 10, Stanley Street, Auckland, to be known as

SELLGREN AND STEVENSON’S MANUFACTURING BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 653.]

Notice to Mariners No. 8 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1901.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SHOAL WATER OFF SANDY CAPE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Superintendent at Sandy Cape Lighthouse reports the existence of what appears to be shoal water, bearing east ½ north from the lighthouse, distant about eight miles.

An early opportunity will be taken of examining the locality of the reported danger.

Chart affected, No. 1068, and Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department, Brisbane,
25th January, 1901.

Notice as to Day for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” and of all other powers and authorities me hereto enabling, and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the Conference of Delegates of all the local authorities comprised in the district constituted for the purposes of that Act by the Boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt (being both boroughs any part of any one of which is situate within a mile of any part of the other), I, William Hall-Jones, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, hereby appoint Wednesday to be the day on which all shops in the said district shall be closed as provided by that Act.

Dated this 11th day of February, 1901.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Day for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the local authorities respectively mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto have duly notified to me that the days upon which the shops in their respective districts shall be closed, pursuant to the provisions of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” are the days set opposite their respective names in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said Act, I, William Hall-Jones, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint that the said respective days shall be the days upon which all shops within the said respective districts shall be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Marton .. .. .. Wednesday.
Napier .. .. .. "
Otatau .. .. .. "
Waverley .. .. .. "
Westport .. .. .. Thursday.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Result of a Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1901.

THE following notice of the election of a member of a Road Board has been received at this office, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Papakura Road District, County of Manukau :
Joseph Gane.

Members of Egmont National Park Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
New Plymouth, 13th February, 1901.

THE following gentlemen have been appointed members of the Egmont National Park Board by the various local bodies in terms of “The Egmont National Park Act, 1900.”

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Chairman of Egmont National Park Board.