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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on such loans, the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of three one-hundredths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property of the Wairau Road Board District; and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of February in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan be paid off.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a special order duly passed by the Wairau Road Board on Saturday, the 19th day of December, 1914, and confirmed on Friday, the 5th day of February, 1915.

L. GRIFFITHS,
Clerk, Wairau Road Board.

Fixing Date on which certain Returns under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, are to be furnished.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th February, 1915.

PURSUANT to section 22 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that the returns showing the total gross amount of the premiums received by or due to fire-insurance companies during the year ended 31st December, 1914, shall be transmitted to the Fire Boards concerned, in the manner prescribed by the said section, on or before the 31st day of May, 1915.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Returning Officers for certain Licensing Districts appointed.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the Legislature Act, 1908, and the Licensing Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Returning Officers for the licensing districts set opposite their names respectively:—

Name of Returning Officer. Name of Licensing District.
Harry Clough Blundell .. Bay of Islands.
Frank Bird, jun. .. Marsden.
Samuel Ure Macaulay .. Kaipara.
Joseph Hay .. Waitemata.
Ernest Livermore .. Auckland.
Henry Bernard Massey .. Parnell.
Sydney John Brookfield .. Manukau.
William Joseph King .. Franklin.
James Elliot .. Raglan.
Jules Caesar Malfroy .. Thames.
Thomas Richard Winsbury Philpotts .. Tauranga.
Henry James Dixon .. Waikato.
Alan Percival Day. .. Bay of Plenty.
Frederick William Schramm .. Taumarunui.
Henry Ewart Hill .. Gisborne.
Robert Brathwaite .. Hawke’s Bay.
Charles James Steevens .. Napier.
George Thorburn .. Waipawa.
Alexander Russel Crawford .. Pahiatua.
Ralph Robert Armstrong .. Wairarapa.
William Jesse Reeve .. Stratford.
John Terry .. Taranaki.
Thomas Charles Stanners .. Egmont.
David William Mason .. Patea.
Frederick William Hart .. Wanganui.
John Petty Aldridge .. Waimarino.
Thomas Watson .. Oroua.
Frederick Charles Wilson .. Rangitikei.
Charles Edward Shortt .. Palmerston.
Jeremiah Hurley .. Otaki.
Francis Walter London .. Hutt.
James Ennis Hull .. Wellington.
John FitzGerald .. Nelson.
Gordon James Waters Boundy .. Motueka.
James McIndoe .. Buller.
Ernest White Cave .. Grey.
John Nelson Nalder .. Westland.
Richard Wanden .. Wairau.
William Henry Rhodes .. Hurunui.
Charles Henry Wright .. Kaipoi.
Charles James Marshall .. Christchurch.
Albert Freeman .. Riccarton.
George William Hulme .. Avon.
Claude Ferrier .. Lyttelton.
George William Thomas .. Ellesmere.
William Terrington Popple .. Selwyn.
Thomas William Tayler .. Timaru.

Name of Returning Officer. Name of Licensing District.
Ernest Booth .. Temuka.
Walter Yarwood Purchase .. Waitaki.
James Alexander Norrie .. Otago Central.
Henry Maxwell .. Dunedin.
Robert Mercer .. Dunedin South.
Stuart Ross McDonald .. Chalmers.
Andrew James Thompson .. Wakatipu.
Arthur Evan Dobbie .. Wallace.
John Alexander Broom .. Awarua.

W. F. MASSEY.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the conference of delegates of all the local authorities of the combined district of Whangarei and Kamo, as constituted for the purposes of that Act, and comprising the Borough of Whangarei and the Town District of Kamo, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Thursday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said combined district of Whangarei and Kamo.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the conference of delegates of all the local authorities of the combined district of Invercargill, as constituted for the purposes of that Act, and comprising the Boroughs of Invercargill and South Invercargill, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Wednesday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said combined district of Invercargill.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS the local authorities of the Boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt, comprising the combined district of Petone and Lower Hutt, have failed to decide what working-day in the week shall be the statutory closing-day for shops in their district:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 15 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Wednesday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said combined district of Petone and Lower Hutt.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS the local authorities of the Boroughs of Hamilton and Frankton, comprising the combined district of Hamilton and Frankton, have failed to decide what working-day in the week shall be the statutory closing-day for shops in their district:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 15 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Wednesday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said combined district of Hamilton and Frankton.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.