Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 759

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 25th February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, the services of the

Owaka Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Owaka (Otago Military District). Date of acceptance, 25th February, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Clerks of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JAMES FRANCIS CLEARY

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Cambridge on and from the 12th day of February, 1915, vice Constable P. J. McCarthy, transferred; and

Constable GEORGE HAMILTON FRY

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Chatham Islands on and from the 13th day of February, 1915, vice Constable H. Scott, transferred.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th February, 1915.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

AGNES HORNEMAN

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Matata, as from the 1st February, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrars of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th February, 1915.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

ARTHUR SEPPINGS HARPER

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for the District of Whangaruru, as from the 1st February, 1915.

VERNON STACEY

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for the District of Wharekahika, as from the 1st February, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th February, 1915.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

ELIZA SUSAN CUMMING GOSS

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Black’s, as from the 17th February, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1915.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

RICHARD ERNEST LECHNER

to be Registrar of Births, Death, and Marriages for the Geraldine District, as from the 1st day of March, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
GEORGE ERNEST LYON .. .. Weber.
ROWLAND LEIGH JELLICOE .. .. Greytown.
MARTIN FRANCIS HANSBERY .. .. Opunake.
NOBLE BAXTER .. .. Awakino.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice respecting Proposed Town District, Ohaupo, County of Waipa.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a town district under the said Act, by name the Town District of Ohaupo. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said town district which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED TOWN DISTRICT OF OHAUPO.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Ngatoro Parish, commencing at the north-western corner of Section No. 191, and being bounded thence by the northern boundary of that section, by the northern and eastern boundaries of Section No. 190, the crossing of a road, by the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 262 and 261, by the eastern and southern boundaries of the latter section to the north-eastern corner of the western portion of land at present held by Mr. Storey in Section No. 246, by the eastern boundary of the said portion, the crossing of a road, by the eastern boundary of the northern portion of Section No. 249 (known as “Storey’s Farm”) to Lake Rotomanuka, by the northern shore of that lake; thence to and by the northern side of a public road forming the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 313A, 313, and 325, by the western boundary of Section No. 325, by the western and part of the northern boundary of Section 327, the crossing of a road, by the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 308, 307, 306, and 305, by the western and northern boundaries of Section No. 304, by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 303, 302, and 301 to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; and thence by a right line to the place of commencement.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers and Tobacconists’ Shops in the Borough of Tauranga under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of Tauranga, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 7 p.m.; on Saturday at 10.30 p.m., excepting during the six working-days immediately preceding Christmas, when the hour of closing shall be 10 p.m.:

And whereas the Tauranga Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Tauranga:

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 8th day of March, 1915, all hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Tauranga shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of March, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.