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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

ONSLow BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Special Loan, £2,750.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” “The Onslow Borough Drainage Empowering Act, 1906,” and the Acts amending the same respectively.

I HEREBY give notice that on the 26th day of March, 1907, a proposal was submitted by the Onslow Borough Council to the ratepayers of the drainage area of Goldie’s Brae, Rangiora Avenue, and Kaiwarra for raising a special loan of £2,750 for a system of drainage; and that the number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal was as follows:—

Goldie’s Brae area.. .. .. For. Against.
Rangiora Avenue area .. .. 2 9
Kaiwarra area .. .. 4 12
.. .. 13 18

I therefore declare the said proposal to be rejected.

R. B. WILLIAMS,
Mayor of the Borough of Onslow.

Dated 27th day of March, 1907.

Forbidding the Registering, Forwarding, or Delivery of Postal Correspondence addressed to the Freeman and Wallace Institute (the Electro-Medical and Surgical Institute), corner Elizabeth and Bathurst Streets, Sydney, and at Melbourne.

THE Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons or the institute whose names or styles and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 9 of “The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906,” that no postal packet addressed to any of such persons (either by their own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to such institute, or to such addresses without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

Freeman and Wallace, Sydney and Melbourne.
Howard Freeman, Sydney and Melbourne.
Dr. Wallace, Sydney and Melbourne.
Dr. White, Sydney and Melbourne.
Dr. F. Bell, Sydney and Melbourne.
The Secretary, the Freeman and Wallace Institute, corner Elizabeth and Bathurst Streets, Sydney, and at Melbourne.
The Electro-Medical and Surgical Institute, corner Elizabeth and Bathurst Streets, Sydney, and at Melbourne.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
A Member of the Executive Council and a Responsible Minister of the Crown acting for the Postmaster-General.

Issue in New Zealand of Money-orders for the Nutriola Company, London, forbidden.

THE Acting-Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the Nutriola Company (Limited), whose registered offices are reported to be situated at Nos. 9, 11, 13, and 15 Oxford Street, London, W., is engaged in promoting or carrying on a fraudulent business, it is hereby ordered, under section 9 of “The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906,” that no money-order shall be issued in New Zealand in favour of the said Nutriola Company until this order is formally revoked.

Dated this 3rd day of April, 1907.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Acting-Postmaster-General.

“The Urewera District Native Reserves Act, 1896.”

To GILBERT MAIR, Esquire, DAVID FRANCIS GLENVILLE BARCLAY, Esquire, and PARATENE NGATA, a Chief of the Ngatiporou Tribe.

WHEREAS by section 9 of “The Urewera District Native Reserves Act, 1896” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that every order made by the therein-mentioned Commissioners shall be published in the Kahiti in Maori and English, and, if no appeal as therein-after provided is lodged against the same within the period of twelve months from the date of such publication, the same shall thereupon be confirmed by the Governor:

And whereas publication as aforesaid of the respective orders was effected by notice in the Kahiti o Niu Tireni No. 30, of the 5th June, 1903:

And whereas by section 10 of the said Act it is further enacted that any person feeling aggrieved by any order made by the Commissioners may, in the prescribed manner, appeal to the Minister of Native Affairs, who may direct such expert inquiry and report as he thinks fit; and, after considering such report, may confirm the original order unaltered or with such modification or variance as he deems equitable, and that his (the Minister of Native Affairs’) decision shall be final:

And whereas within the aforesaid period of twelve months certain persons alleged that they felt aggrieved as aforesaid, and duly lodged appeals:

And whereas I, James Carroll, Minister of Native Affairs of the Colony of New Zealand, under and by virtue of the powers and authorities aforesaid, did, on the 13th day of November, 1906, appoint you, the said Gilbert Mair and David Francis Glenville Barclay, or either of you, and the said Paratene Ngata, to conduct such expert inquiry, and to report for my consideration and decision, as in the said section 10 provided, on or before the 31st day of March, 1907:

And whereas it is expedient that the date on which you were required to transmit to me such report as aforesaid should be extended:

Now, therefore, I, the said James Carroll, in exercise of all powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, do hereby extend the period within which you shall (using all diligence) transmit to me, as by the said appointment provided, your report as aforesaid to the 30th day of April, 1907, and in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and authorities I do hereby confirm the said appointment except as altered by these presents.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of March, 1907.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of all Watchmakers’, Jewellers’, Goldsmiths’, Silversmiths’, and Engravers’ Shops in the City of Wellington under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the City of Wellington wherein is carried on the several trades of watchmakers, jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, or engravers, or a combination of these or any of these trades, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days at the following hours: On the statutory closing-day for the weekly half-holiday throughout the whole year, at 1 p.m., or if notice is duly given by any occupier of desire to close on Saturday, then, as to that occupier, on that day; on Saturday, excepting during the month of December, at 9.30 p.m., or if such notice is given as aforesaid, then, by the occupier giving such notice, on Friday throughout the year; on all other working-days throughout the year, excepting during the month of December, at 6 p.m.; on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, or when those days fall on Monday, on the Saturdays preceding those days, at 11 p.m.; on all other working-days in the month of December (except the statutory closing-day or substituted day as aforesaid), at 10 p.m.: And whereas the Wellington City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the City of Wellington wherein are carried on the several trades of watchmakers, jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, or engravers, or a combination of these or any of these trades:

Now, therefore, I, George Fowlds, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904,” and section 5 of “The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905,” do hereby direct that from and after the 15th day of April, 1907, all such shops in the City of Wellington shall be closed in accordance with this requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of April, 1907.

GEO. FOWLDS,
For Minister of Labour.

Gorse declared to be a Noxious Weed in the Collingwood County.—Notice No. 1112.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 26th March, 1907.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Collingwood County Council has, by special order, declared gorse to be a noxious weed within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the Collingwood County.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister for Agriculture.