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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

By-laws of the Kihikihi Town Board confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th March, 1913.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Kihikihi Town Board on the 22nd January, 1913.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 23rd day of February, 1913.

Dated this 8th day of March, 1913.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Balclutha Borough Council.—Notice No. 1696.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 7th March, 1913.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Balclutha Borough Council has, by special order, declared dock to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1908.—Amended Notice specifying Combined District of Christchurch.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 10 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, do hereby specify that the Combined District of Christchurch comprises the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of Riccarton, Spreydon, and Woolston.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of March, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of all Shops in the Clive Riding of Hawke’s Bay County under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Clive Riding of the Hawke’s Bay County, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in the riding shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 7.30 p.m.; Wednesdays, 1 p.m.; Saturdays, 9.30 p.m.; Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, 10 p.m.:

And whereas the Hawke’s Bay County Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the Clive Riding of the Hawke’s Bay County:

Now, therefore, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, acting for and in behalf of the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 17th day of March, 1913, all shops in the Clive Riding of the Hawke’s Bay County shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of March, 1913.

H. D. BELL,
For 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 Herbert Herries, Native Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, do hereby consent to a sale of Waitaha No. 1b Section 3 Block, containing 128 acres 2 roods 26 perches, situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, 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 10th day of March, 1913.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—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 undermentioned warehouse for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely,—

Port of Timaru.

The warehouse known as

WILSON’S BOND,

as appointed and described in Minister’s Order No. 772, of the 3rd day of April, 1905.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of March, 1913.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1034.]

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 Timaru.

The cellar of a brick building, roofed with iron, situated in Bank Street, on Allotments Nos. 2, 4, and 5, Section No. 2850, Borough of Timaru, to be known as

WILSON’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of March, 1913.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1035.]

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 Napier.

A brick building, roofed with iron, situated on Town Section 505, facing Waghorne Street, Port Ahuriri, to be known as

ROBJOHN’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1913.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs

Minister’s Order No. 1036.]

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1914, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1915.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES COLVIN,
Minister of Mines.