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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by the Customs Law Act, 1908, I, the Minister of Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of Auckland.

Part of the cellar of a brick building, roofed with iron, situated on Allotment 19 and part of 20, Section 18, corner of Federal Street and Custom Street West, to be known as

LANGUTH’S BOND.

(Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1912.

GEO. LAURENSON,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1009.]

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the Town District of Waipukurau under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops in the Town District of Waipukurau, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Saturdays, 9 p.m.; all other nights, 8 p.m.: And whereas the Waipukurau Town Board has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Waipukurau district:

Now, therefore, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 15th day of July, 1912, all such shops in the Town District of Waipukurau shall be closed in accordance with such requisition, except that they may be kept open after 1 o’clock p.m. on the statutory closing-day only for the sole purpose of supplying medicines and surgical appliances which are urgently required. They may also be kept open and assistants may be employed (but only for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances) between the hours of 7 o’clock and 8 o’clock p.m. in the evening of the statutory closing-day.

The notice gazetted on 8th February, 1912, fixing the closing-hours of all shops, with exceptions, is hereby superseded accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of July, 1912.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Consent under Section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

IN pursuance of the power conferred upon the Native Minister by subsection (b) of section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909, I, William Donald Stuart MacDonald, Native Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, do hereby consent to a lease of Lot 72a No. 3n, Parish of Mataia, containing 35 acres 1 rood, subject to the same restrictions and to the same requirements as to confirmation and otherwise as if the land was not subject to Part XVI of the Native Land Act, 1909.

As witness my hand, this 29th day of June, 1912.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Native Minister.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XVI, Kawakawa Survey District, for the Purposes of a Native School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a Native School in Block XVI, Kawakawa Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Kawakawa, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of such public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land required to be taken:—

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 3rd day of July, 1912.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Blocks III and VII, Waioeka Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of the Public Works Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 26th day of August, 1903.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Dated this 4th day of July, 1912.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in Boundaries of Borough of New Plymouth by including therein the Area comprised in St. Aubyn and Moturoa District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th July, 1912.

PURSUANT to section 118 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to him, praying that the said area may be included in the Borough of New Plymouth as a separate ward, to be known as the St. Aubyn–Moturoa Ward. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to, or petitions against, the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north-west and north generally by the sea from a point on the sea-shore in line with Paritutu Trig. Station and peg No. XIII on plan No. 1036, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at New Plymouth, to the westernmost corner of the Borough of New Plymouth; thence towards the north-east by the Borough of New Plymouth to Gladstone Road; thence towards the south-east generally by the north-western side of Gladstone Road to and across Belt Road; thence by the south-western side