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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants. Dated 29th July, 1915.

Charles Edward Mackie.
Henry Wilfrid Lane.
Edward Percy Earle.
Albert Edward Morran.
George Hodgson.
James Patrick Maguire.
Roland Evelyn Fry.
Ernest Athole Edgecumbe.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 29th July, 1915.

Alfred Henry Bentley.
Harold Victor Lester.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th August, 1915.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

WHANGAROA COUNTY.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Kaeo and Whangaroa Ridings of the County of Whangaroa taken on Wednesday, the 28th day of July, 1915, on the proposal of the Whangaroa County Council to borrow the sum of £1,500 for constructing bridges and culverts and forming approaches thereto on the main Kaeo to Whangaroa Road, and for forming, metalling, and generally improving the said road, upon the terms set out in the public notice published in the North Auckland Age newspaper on the 18th and 25th days of June, 1915, and the 2nd and 9th days of July, 1915, in accordance with the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 89, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Whangaroa this 30th day of July, 1915.

JOSEPH SOLLOWAY LANE,
Chairman of the Whangaroa County Council.

Result of Election of a Member of the Rotorua Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th August, 1915.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Rotorua Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Rotorua Fire Board—
Herbert Percy Kissling, vice Lancelot W. D. Andrews, resigned.

Notice respecting Raffles, &c., under the Gaming Act, 1908.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th August, 1915.

THE following section of the Gaming Act, 1918, is published for general information :—

“42. (1.) If any person being the owner of any painting, drawing, sculpture, or other work of art, or literature, or mineral specimens, or mechanical models, applies to the Minister of Internal Affairs for permission to dispose of the same by raffle or chance, the said Minister may, if he thinks fit, grant a license for that purpose, subject to such conditions and restrictions as he thinks right to impose.

“(2.) If such conditions and restrictions are complied with, the provisions of this Act, or any other law for the time being in force relating to gaming and lotteries, shall not apply to such owner or to any other persons who may be bona fide concerned in such transaction.”

The words “or other work of art” in the above extract are held to mean articles of the nature of paintings, drawings, or sculptures. No articles except those mentioned in any license granted by the Minister of Internal Affairs shall be disposed of by raffle or chance, either as gifts to prize-winners or on any other pretext.

A copy of each license granted by the Minister will be sent to the Police, in order that proceedings may be taken in the event of any infringement of the Act.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Post Officers appointed to take Statutory Declarations of Postmasters and other Post Officers.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1915.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under section 8, clause (d), of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Joseph George Ward, the Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting under the authority conferred by section 9, subsection (2), of the said Act, do hereby appoint the following persons to take statutory declarations of Postmasters and other Post officers :—

WATERS, F. V., First Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.
MORRIS, R. B., Chief Inspector, General Post Office.
WARD, W. T., Chief Postmaster, Christchurch.
GEE, W., Chief Postmaster, Nelson.
HARLE, G. H., Postmaster, Ashburton.
SCULLY, F. M., District Accountant, New Plymouth.
PRICE, C. M., Assistant Inspector, West Coast District.
COLLINS, J. F., Chief Mail Clerk, Christchurch.
MISSEN, B. T., Postmaster, Taihape.
McNICKLE, W., Postmaster, Auckland S.C.
LECHNER, R. E., Postmaster, Reefton.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the Borough of Devonport, 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 Devonport, 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.; and Friday, 9.30 p.m.:

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

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 23rd day of August, 1915, all chemists’ shops in the Borough of Devonport 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 16th day of August, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Cancelling of Mackerras and Hazlett’s Warehouse, Dunedin.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1915.

I HEREBY give notice that the license of Mackerras and Hazlett’s warehouse, Dunedin, issued on the 5th January, 1915, is cancelled as from the 26th day of July, 1915, such warehouse having on that date ceased to be occupied by the licensee as a licensed warehouse.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Customs.

Officiating Ministers for 1915.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1915.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Samuel Fowler Hunter,

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.