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3. No person shall at any time or times in or during the whole of each and every such year cut any grass for seed growing on any road within the district without obtaining from time to time in and during each and every such year the previous consent in writing of the Board.

4. The Board, on giving such consent, may therein and thereby specify the road or roads, or any part or parts of the same, within such district to which such consent shall extend and apply, and may therein and thereby determine the period of time during which such consent shall continue to be in force.

5. Any person cutting grass for seed on any road in the district shall have the consent of the Board for cutting the same in his immediate personal possession, and shall, when required by the Clerk of the Board, produce such consent for inspection forthwith ; and any person who shall, on being so required, refuse or fail forthwith to produce such consent shall be guilty of a breach of this by-law.

6. Any person committing a breach of or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall, for each and every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of five pounds.

7. This by-law shall come into force within the district as soon as it has been gazetted.

GEORGE WITTY,
Chairman.

WILLIAM BAILEY,
Member.

WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR,
Clerk.

I, William Henry Taylor, Clerk to the Templeton Road Board, hereby certify that the foregoing by-laws are a true copy of a special order made by the Templeton Road Board on the 23rd day of January, 1905, and that such special order was made in all respects in terms of the Road Boards Act of 1882.

Dated this 23rd day of January, 1905.
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR,
Clerk.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Town District of Outram.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the owners of all the shops in the Town District of Outram (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”), has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in such town district shall be closed at 7 o’clock in the evening on four working-days of the week—viz., Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays—and at 9 o’clock on Fridays: And whereas the Outram Town Board has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the town district:

Now, therefore, I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 1st day of February, 1905, all shops in the Town District of Outram shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Borough of Hawera.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the owners of all the shops in the Borough of Hawera (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”) has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the Borough of Hawera shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening on four working-days in the week—viz., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday—at 10 o’clock in the evening on Saturdays, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon of the statutory half-holiday: And whereas the Hawera Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the trades specified within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, Richard John Seddon, the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 1st day of February, 1905, all shops in the trades mentioned in the Borough of Hawera shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

TRADES.—Grocery, drapery, ironmongery, and watch-making and jewellery.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Borough of Dannevirke.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the owners of all the shops in the Borough of Dannevirke (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”) has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in such borough shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening on four working-days of the week—viz., Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays: And whereas the Dannevirke Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 1st day of February, 1905, all shops in the Borough of Dannevirke shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice to Mariners No. 1 of 1905.

SANDSPIT OFF SOUTH-EAST EXTREME OF WHANGAPARAOA PENINSULA, HAURAKI GULF.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th January, 1905.

CAPTAIN W. P. DAWSON, of H.M.S. “Penguin,” reports that a sandspit with depths of 4 to 5 fathoms extends 7 cables in a south-easterly direction from the south-east extreme of Whangaparaoa Peninsula. At the spit-end, where a depth of 24ft. was obtained, Tiri Tiri Light bears N. 50° E., distant 3 miles.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1212 and 2543; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, page 48.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 2 of 1905.

SHOAL OFF CHEVIOT COAST, SOUTH ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 31st January, 1905.

CAPTAIN ROLLS, of the s.s. “Tarawera,” reports that when going down inside the reported 4-fathom patch off the Cheviot coast he had a good view of the break, which was continuous and heavy. From a reliable position, determined by bearings of the land, he found that the break seen by him bore due north, 3 miles from the position shown on the chart of the 4-fathom patch.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2529; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, Chap. viii., pages 271 to 273.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 3 of 1905.

LEADING-BEACONS FOR KAIPARA HARBOUR ENTRANCE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 31st January, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the three beacons in line N. 25° E., formerly marking the fairway over bar, have been removed, and two of them have been re-erected in the vicinities of flagstaff and lighthouse.

The rear beacon, about 100 yards westward of flagstaff and semaphore-station, is painted black and shows against the sky. The front beacon, about 500 yards eastward of lighthouse, is painted black with white bull’s-eye centre, and shows against the sandhill.

These beacons, in line N. 52° E., lead in over the bar; shoalest water, 4½ fathoms at L.W.O.S. Steer in with the beacons in line until near outer end of North Sand Spit, then midway between North Sand Spit and Tory Shoal; when abreast of lighthouse a course may be steered to enter any of the different branches.

Mariners should pay attention to the lead and to any direction given from flagstaff and semaphore-station on top of sandhill; also bear in mind that the lighthouse is not a leading-mark.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1212, 2525, and 2614; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, Chap. vii., pages 242 to 248.

WM. HALL-JONES.