APRIL 29.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1655

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 27th April, 1915.

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

WILLIAM PROCTOR

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Waotu, as from the 19th day of February, 1915, vice Mrs. F. M. Proctor.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th April, 1915.

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

MATEKINO H. KAUA

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Horoera, as from the 1st day of April, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th April, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Tamahere Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

TAMahERE ROAD BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Tamahere Road District was taken on the 17th day of April, 1915, on the proposal of the Tamahere Road Board, to raise a loan of £6,000 for the purpose of constructing and improving generally the roads throughout the aforesaid district.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 161. The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 30. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

W. E. CLARK,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th April, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waipa, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll, £1,000 Loan.—Metalling Whatawhata Swamp Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that the result of the poll taken on Thursday, the 22nd April, 1915, on the proposal to borrow £1,000 for metalling the Whatawhata Swamp Road in the Newcastle Riding was as follows : For the proposal, 96 votes ; against the proposal, 1 vote.

I therefore declare the proposal to be duly carried.

ROBT. FISHER,
Chairman.

Te Awamutu, 24th April, 1915.

Notice respecting Proposed Drainage District, Paranui, Counties of Ohinemuri, Piako, and Waikato.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th April, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under the said Act, by name the Drainage District of Paranui. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage 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 DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF PARANUI.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Counties of Ohinemuri, Piako, and Waikato, bounded by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Section No. 432, Parish of Taupiri ; thence along the southern side of the Ohinewai–Tahuna Road to the eastern boundary of Section No. 1 of the Hoe-o-tainui North No. 6A 2B Block ; thence along the eastern boundary of that section and the northern and eastern boundaries of the Hoe-o-tainui South No. 4A Block to its south-eastern corner ; thence along the southern boundary of the last-mentioned block to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary-line of the land at present owned by Messrs. L. R. W. and E. H. Reid (being part of Section No. 5, Towahi Block) ; thence by a right line to and by the said south-eastern boundary-line, and by the southern and western boundaries of the land at present owned by Messrs. W. and J. McFarland, Smith, and Jones (being part of Section No. 5, Towahi Block aforesaid) ; and thence along the western boundary of land at present owned by Mr. G. Proctor to the road at the south-western corner of Section No. 478, Parish of Taupiri ; thence across that road and by the western boundary of the said Section No. 478, and the north-western boundary of the said Section No. 432, Parish of Taupiri, to the place of commencement.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th April, 1915.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Wairau Maori Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON,
Assistant Under-Secretary.

Wairau Maori Drainage District, County of Marlborough—
Peter Hohua McDonald.
Tauru Piripi.
Hapareta Rore Pukekohatu.
Tahuaroa Watson.
Tapata Wiremu.

Varied Notice (No. 3) fixing Closing-hours of Chemists and Druggists’ Shops in the City of Christchurch under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists and druggists’ shops in the City of Christchurch, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city shall be closed as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 6 p.m. ; Fridays, 9 p.m. ; and Saturdays, 1 p.m. (the weekly half-holiday), except that shops may be opened between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. on Saturdays : Provided that these hours shall not apply to the Central Pharmacy established for the supply of urgent medicines and surgical appliances between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. on Fridays, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays, and after 9 p.m. on Saturdays :

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

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 3rd day of May, 1915, all chemists and druggists’ shops in the City of Christchurch shall be closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., and on Fridays at 9 p.m.

The notice gazetted on the 3rd day of July, 1913, fixing the closing-hours of all such shops in the city is hereby varied accordingly.

[NOTE.—On the statutory half-holiday chemists’ shops may, pursuant to section 18 (d) of the Act, re-open from