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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Results of Elections by Insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary Vacancies in certain Fire Boards.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1914.

THE following results of elections to fill extraordinary vacancies in certain Fire Boards by fire-insurance companies have been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and are notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dannewirke Fire Board :
Bell, William Graham.
Pitt, Eryl S.

Hastings Fire Board :
Pitt, Eryl S.

Feilding :
Blair, Arthur Charles.
Gill, William Ernest Albert.

Palmerston North :
Blair, Arthur Charles.
Gill, William Ernest Albert.

Petone :
Ching, Thomas Percy Bayntun.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Watchmakers and Jewellers’ Shops in the Borough of Whangarei, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops carrying on the business of watchmakers and jewellers in the Borough of Whangarei, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of every working-day as follows: At 9 o’clock on Saturday evening; at 1 o’clock on Thursday (being the statutory half-holiday in the above district); at 6 o’clock on any other working-day:

And whereas the Whangarei Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all watchmakers and jewellers’ shops within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, acting for and on 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 30th day of March, 1914, all watchmakers and jewellers’ shops in the Borough of Whangarei shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of March, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Labour.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Motueka Survey District, for the Purposes of the Motueka River Protective Works.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of the Motueka River Protective Works. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Motueka, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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.

In the Nelson 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 24th day of March, 1914.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1914.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 25th March, 1895, and the 13th June, 1904, under the Electric Lines Act, 1884, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, and the 16th June, 1904, respectively, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—

PICKETT, JOHN JOSEPH, Chief Postmaster, Gisborne.
TREGONNING, WILLIAM NICHOLAS, Postmaster, Bluff.
WHITE, PERCY PAGET, Chief Postmaster, Thames.
WYLIE, JAMES TURNER, Postmaster, Hamilton.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Prohibiting Money-order and Postal Correspondence for the International Turf Draw Syndicate, Milan, Italy.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the syndicate whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said syndicate shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said syndicate (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to the manager, secretary, or other officer thereof, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

THE International Turf Draw Syndicate, Milan, Italy.

Dated this 23rd day of March, 1914.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Postmaster-General.