APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1221

LEVIN BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Result of Poll for Loan of £18,000.

In the matter of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,"
and of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," and the
Acts amending the same respectively.

I HEREBY give notice that on the 8th day of April, 1908, a
proposal was submitted by the Levin Borough Council to the
ratepayers of the Borough of Levin for raising a special loan
of £18,000 for the purpose of constructing waterworks for the
said borough, and that the number of votes recorded respec-
tively for and against the said proposal was as follows: For,
190; against, 17; informal, 3.
I therefore declare the said proposal to be carried.
B. R. GARDENER,
Mayor of Levin.

Forbidding the Issue of Money-orders and the Transmission of
Correspondence for the National Agency, Melbourne.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing
that the agency whose name and address are shown in
the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the
treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby
ordered, under section 9 of "The Post Office Act Amend-
ment Act, 1906," that no money-order in favour of the
said agency shall be issued, and that no postal packet ad-
dressed to the said agency (either by its own or any
fictitious or assumed name), or to such address without a
name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by
the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.
THE National Agency, 175 William Street, Melbourne.
Dated this 16th day of April, 1908.
JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Postmaster-General.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of all Shops in the Road District
of Mount Hutt under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a ma-
jority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Road
District of Mount Hutt, has been forwarded to me, desiring
that all shops in the road district shall be closed as follows:
Monday, 8 p.m.; Tuesday, 8 p.m.; Wednesday (statutory
half-holiday), 1 p.m.; Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.:
And whereas the Mount Hutt Road Board has certified
that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority
of the occupiers of all the shops in the road district:
Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, 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 27th day of April, 1908, all shops in the Road
District of Mount Hutt shall be closed in accordance with
such requisition.
Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of April, 1908.
J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

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

WHEREAS by notice dated the 20th day of May,
1907, and gazetted on the 23rd day of May, 1907,
the Minister of Labour, in exercise of the powers in that
behalf conferred upon him by section 21 of "The Shops and
Offices Act, 1904," and section 5 of "The Shops and Offices
Act Amendment Act, 1905," and acting in accordance with
a requisition duly made and certified as required by those
sections, did direct that from and after the 1st day of June,
1907, all shops, excepting fruiterers, in the Town District of
Pukekohe should be closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, and Fridays at 7.30 p.m., on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.,
and on Saturdays (the weekly half-holiday) at 1 p.m. in each
week, except as provided in section 16 of "The Shops and
Offices Act, 1904": And whereas by a like requisition, duly
made and certified as aforesaid, he has been requested to
vary the said notice by fixing the closing-hours of all shops,
with the exception of fruiterers, bakers, and hairdressing-
saloons, as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
and Thursdays at 6.30 p.m.; on Friday at 8 p.m.; on
Saturdays at 1 p.m.:
Now, therefore, in compliance with the last-mentioned
requisition, and in exercise of the powers conferred upon
me by section 21 of "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904,"
and section 5 of "The Shops and Offices Act Amendment
Act, 1905," I do hereby vary the said notice by directing that
on and after the 27th day of April, 1908, all shops, with the
exception of fruiterers, bakers, and hairdressing-saloons, in
the Town District of Pukekohe shall be closed in accordance
with the last-mentioned requisition. (The weekly half-
holiday is on Saturday.)
Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of April, 1908.
J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notifying Land in Otago Land District subject to "The
Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900."

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1908.
PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Land for
Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900," and its
amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned
Crown land, being the land known as the Otekaike Settle-
ment, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is sub-
ject to the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.
OTEKAIKE SETTLEMENT.
ALL those areas to be called the Otekaike Settlement, situated
in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement
50,542 acres 1 rood 9 perches, as severally described here-
under, viz.: First, 48,600 acres and 12 perches, being now
known as Allotments 1A to 58A, 62A to 66A, and 68A of the
Otekaike Settlement, the bed of Otekaike River between rail-
way and south-west boundary of Block XI, and Runs 28 and
28A to 28E: bounded—commencing at the junction of the
Otiake and Waitaki Rivers; thence south-easterly by road
reserve along Waitaki River, 21500 links; thence along road
reserve up Otekaike River to railway reserve, 2200 links;
thence on the south-west and south-east by railway reserve,
bearing 321° 56', 220 links, and 231° 56', 1507.5 links; thence
south-east along main road crossing Otekaike River, 132° 40',
516.8 links, and 134° 03', 1424 links; on the north-west by
road reserve down Otekaike River, 5100 links; on the north
by road reserve down Waitaki River, 12400 links, to Kurow-
Oamaru Railway; thence south across railway, 101 links;
thence south-east along railway, 99° 19½', 717.9 links;
103° 25', 314.8 links; 112° 27', 298.2 links; 121° 18',
277.6 links; 130° 33', 271.9 links; 133° 23', 1380.8 links;
134° 25', 197.4 links; 140° 11', 206 links; 141° 18½',
1939.3 links; thence diagonally across road and railway,
70° 39', 106 links; thence northerly along road-line, 0° 20',
401.5 links, and 48° 20', 449.5 links; thence easterly by road
along Waitaki River, 16600 links; thence by line bearing
139° 38', 1842 links; by irregular boundary, 1850 links;
thence south by eastern boundary of Block V, Maruwenua
District, 564 links; thence easterly by road along Waitaki
River, 8040 links; thence due south by eastern boundary of
Sections 16 and 6, Block IV, 4368.5 links; thence south-west
by railway reserve, 247° 07', 452.6 links; 208° 47', 173.8 links;
north-west by road, 294° 17½', 310.5 links; north-east by
line, 37° 03', 117.8 links; south-east by railway, 128° 55',
105.7 links; across railway, 35° 02', 100.6 links; thence
north-west by railway, 311° 27', 184.7 links; 315° 47',
2628.2 links; 312° 13', 398.2 links; 305° 02', 406.4 links;
296° 01', 435.2 links; 292° 26½', 4318.3 links; thence due
south, across railway and by road-line, 1398.5 links; thence
north-west by road, 294° 18', 7970.6 links; thence across
road, 232° 36', 217.8 links; thence southerly by Lot 4, De-
posit Plan 1870, 183° 14½', 3832.1 links; across road, 184° 47',
100.8 links; thence south-east by road, 114° 18½', 7229 links;
south-east across road, 129° 48', 100.2 links; by road, 36° 19',
983.8 links; 79° 00', 1101.1 links; 118° 14', 1192 links; by
lines bearing 153° 32', 952 links; 214° 45', 1378 links;
259° 48', 1149.6 links; 308° 20', 231 links; south along
block-line and block-line produced, 180°, 4803.7 links; thence
north-west, 314° 38', 5224.9 links, and across road, 100 links;
thence south-west by road, 224° 39¾', 1831.9 links; 210° 09',
1438.2 links; thence westerly, 285° 19', 1630.9 links; 277° 41',
416.5 links; thence north-west by line bearing 314° 22½',
12283 links; thence north, 0° 01', 1738.4 links; thence due
west to Geodesical Station, Black Hill, 10304.4 links; thence
south-west by line through Trig. H, 216° 43' 51'', 33730 links;
thence north-west, 321° 29', 3502.7 links; thence due south
by block-line, 3766.9 links; across road, 353.8 links; again
by block-line, 2045.5 links; thence due west, 1465.5 links;
thence north-west, 321° 29', 681 links; across road, 108 links;
thence 7197 links to Otekaike River; thence down Otekaike
river-bank reserve, 6400 links; thence across Otiake River
by block-boundary, 321° 29', 979 links; thence following up
the north bank of the Otekaike River and Dansey's Stream
and right line to watershed; thence by right lines to Trigs.