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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 135

the Copland Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 31st March, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

COP LAND SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 610 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less, being part of R.S. 17020, situated in Block X, Otaio Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 63, folio 16, in the office of the District Land Registrar at Christchurch. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19467, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in the Auckland Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 21st November, 1915.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Clifford Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 25th August, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

CLIFFORD SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 1,069 acres 1 rood 31 perches, more or less, being part of subdivision of Okoroire Block, situated in Block XIV, Tapapa Survey District, and Block II, Patetere North Survey District (known as Clifford Settlement). Bounded towards the north by Allotments Nos. 7, 6, and 5, subdivision of Okoroire Block, and shown on deposited plan No. 3077 in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, 292·1, 6576·5, and 1477 links; towards the east by the Auckland-Rotorua Railway and by a public road, 8962·9, 203, 599·9, 699·6, 117·7, 283, 302·9, 150·4, 932·6, 3013·2 links; towards the south generally by a public road, 385, 197·7, 432·4, 897·6, 864·4, 764·3, 1138·3, 399·2, 665·3, 935·1, 545·8, 749·5, 531·4, 1119·7, 115·6 links; and towards the west by Allotment 16, subdivision of Okoroire Block, and shown on deposited plan No. 3079 in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, 15881·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/12, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Meetings of Hawke’s Bay Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, at 10 o’clock a.m. on the 14th January, 11th February, 10th March, 14th April, 12th May, 9th June, 14th July, 11th August, 8th September, 13th October, 10th November, and 8th December, and at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on 17th January, 17th April, 17th July, and 16th October, during the year 1916.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the Borough of Newmarket, 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 Borough of Newmarket, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday, 9.30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m., on every Saturday in the year, providing that on each evening during the period from the 20th December in each year to 8th January inclusive in the following year, and on the Saturday immediately following Good Friday, the hours of closing shall be optional:

And whereas the Newmarket Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops in the Borough of Newmarket:

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 29th day of November, 1915, all chemists’ shops in the Borough of Newmarket shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

NOTE.—The statutory half-holiday is on Saturday, on which day chemists’ shops may reopen from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. only for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of November, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the City of Auckland, 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 City of Auckland, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. for the statutory half-holiday in each week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday, 9.30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m., on every Saturday in the year except on the Saturday after Good Friday and on the Saturday in Christmas and New Year weeks, when the closing-hour shall be 9.30 p.m.: Provided that the above hours shall not apply to the period covering 17th December to 31st December (inclusive), during which period the closing-hour on working-days shall be 9 p.m., except on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, when the closing-hour shall be 11 p.m.:

And whereas the Auckland City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops in the City of Auckland:

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 29th day of November, 1915, all chemists’ shops in the City of Auckland shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

NOTE.—The statutory half-holiday is on Saturday, on which day chemists’ shops may reopen from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. only for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances.

The notice gazetted on the 18th day of December, 1913, fixing the closing-hours of all such shops within the city is hereby cancelled accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of November, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block II, Rangi Survey District, for Road Purposes.

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 road in Block II, Rangi 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 Taringamotu, 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 the said 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.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 3 acres 1 rood 37 perches.

Portion of Rangitoto-Tuhua Block 60A, Section 2 (Taranaki R.D.).

Situated in Block II, Rangi Survey District.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38965 (sheet 5), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured blue.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 23rd day of November, 1915.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.