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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(5.) To holders of free places at a technical school
recognised under the regulations for manual
and technical instruction.
(6.) To pupils on the roll of a public or private
primary or secondary school or of a district
high school travelling to attend classes held
at especially equipped manual training cen-
tres and recognised under the regulations for
manual and technical instruction.

Application for these tickets must be accompanied by
a certificate in the following form, and duly signed by
the head teacher, principal, or director, as the case
may be, having charge of the school attended :—

“I hereby certify that A. B., residing at
, whose present age is
years
months, is
entitled, under paragraph*
of the regulation
for Free School Season Tickets, to a free school ticket
from
to
to enable him [her] to attend
the†
at
for the purpose of‡
instruction.”

• Insert the number of the clause (1, 2, &c.) of the Free
  School Season Ticket regulation.
  † Give the name of the school or of the manual training
  centre. (The school may be a public school, a private school
  subject to inspection, a district high school, a secondary
  school, or a technical school.)
  ‡ State whether primary or secondary, technical or manual.

These tickets are not transferable, and are available
for use by the holder only when travelling to and from
school for the purpose of receiving tuition. If used for
any other purpose the ticket will be forfeited.

PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS.

Cancel—
Regulation (3), Class E.

Insert—

(3.) Class E.

Minimum quantity (except for bonedust and other
artificial manures, for which it will be 5 cwt.), 1½ tons.
Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or
at rate and a half, Class E, not exceeding the rate for
Class D.

At Auckland, Onehunga, Port Ahuriri, Wellington
(Thorndon), Wellington (Lambton), Foxton, Wanganui,
New Plymouth Breakwater, Waitara, Greymouth,
Westport, Nelson, Nelson Port, Picton, Blenheim,
Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Breakwater,
Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Bluff, 6d.
per ton will be charged in addition to the classified
rates, except when consigned from or to private sidings
at those stations, or except local rates otherwise pro-
vide; but such addition will not be made when goods
are charged at Class E under small-lots scale, Regu-
lation 2, or at rate and a half, Class E.

At all other stations, when the loading or unloading
is done by the owners, or when loaded by owners into
sheds, owing to trucks not being available after reason-
able notice is given, the classified rates only will be
charged. When the loading or unloading is done by
Railway Department 6d. per ton will be charged for
each operation; minimum charge, 3d. When goods are
charged at Class E under small-lots scale, Regulation 2,
or at rate and a half, Class E, no charge for loading or
unloading will be made.

At all private stores or sidings the loading or unload-
ing shall be done by the owners.

The following method of computing the tonnage of
grain will be followed :—

Wheat—12 bags of 3½ bushels to the ton.
Barley—12 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Oats—14 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Flour, bran, and pollard—2,200 lb. to the ton.
Oats (crushed) and other grain by actual weight.
60 lb. of wheat, 50 lb. of barley, or 40 lb. of oats
count as 1 bushel.

The number of bags and the quantity they contain
must be declared upon the consignment notes.

The maximum weight of wheat, barley, or oats con-
tained in any one sack to be carried by railway shall
be 200 lb. Any sack of wheat, barley, or oats contain-
ing a greater weight than 200 lb. shall be charged four
times the ordinary rate of freight.

As witness my hand, this twenty-sixth day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Railways.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonded Tobacco-manufactory.

IN exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested,
I, the Minister of Customs, do by this order under my
hand revoke and annul the appointment of the undermen-
tioned building or premises as a manufactory in which
tobacco may be manufactured prior to the payment of duty
thereon, namely :—

Port of Auckland.

The manufactory known as

THE ATLAS TOBACCO COMPANY’S BONDED TOBACCO-
MANUFACTORY,

as appointed and described in Minister’s Order No. 309,
of the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-eight.

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

A. W. HOGG,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 898.]

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of Second-hand Dealers’
Shops in the Borough of Hastings under the Shops and
Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a
majority of the occupiers of all the second-hand
dealers’ shops in the Borough of Hastings, has been forwarded
to me, desiring that the hours of closing of all such shops
within the borough shall be in the evening of working-days
as follows: On every day except Saturday, 8 o’clock p.m.;
on every Saturday, 10.30 o’clock p.m.: And whereas the
Hastings Borough Council has certified that the signatures
to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers
of all second-hand dealers’ shops within the Borough of
Hastings:

Now, therefore, I, Alexander Wilson Hogg, Minister of
Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of “The Shops and
Offices Act, 1908,” do hereby direct that from and after the
1st day of February, 1909, all second-hand dealers’ shops
in the Borough of Hastings shall be closed in accordance
with such requisition.

The weekly half-holiday is on Wednesday from 1 p.m.

The notice gazetted the 21st day of May, 1908, fixing the
closing-hours of all shops in the borough is hereby varied
accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of January, 1909.

A. W. HOGG,
Minister of Labour.

Officiating Ministers for 1909.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th January, 1909.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year
of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and in-
titled “The Marriage Act, 1908,” the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.

The Reverend Herbert Osmond Townsend Hanby.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend A. M. Aspland.
The Reverend W. A. Keay.

•
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1909.

THE Loyal Balfour Lodge, No. 12, situated at Balfour,
is registered as a branch of the Southland District
of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act,
1908,” this 23rd day of January, 1909.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies