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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 124

the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Hamiltons Deviation Special-rating District taken on the 21st day of October, 1916, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £900 for the purpose of taking, forming, and metalling a deviation on the Onewhero to Wairamarama main road: Total number of valid votes recorded, 131; for the proposal, 72; against the proposal, 59.

The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being less than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the proposal to be lost.

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE,
Chairman, Raglan County Council.

• 24th October, 1916.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.—Successful Candidates, Plumbers’ Board Examination, 29th and 30th September, 1916.

THE following is a list of plumbers to whom certificates of having passed the examination of the Plumbers’ Board of New Zealand will be granted, in pursuance of section 17 of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912, and whose names have been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of section 8 of that Act.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Public Health.

Reg. No. Name Address.
1192. Massey, Ernest James .. .. Auckland.
1193. Sheehan, Patrick James .. .. ,,
1194. Purdie, Hugh Montgomery .. .. ,,
1195. Miller, John .. .. Tauranga.
1196. Kidd, Robert Raymond McEwen .. .. Takapuna.
1197. Hazleman, Arthur Frederick.. .. .. Auckland.
1198. Carruthers, Robert .. .. .. Opotiki.
1199. Holmes, William .. .. .. Hamilton.
1200. Hammond, David William .. .. .. Auckland.
1201. Redmond, Berwin .. .. .. Hamilton.
1202. Dickenson, Arthur .. .. .. Christchurch.
1203. Carson, Robert .. .. .. Lyttelton.
1204. Craw, Stanley Simpson .. .. Christchurch.
1205. Kilick, Thomas George Chapman .. .. ,,
1206. Scott, Archie Charles .. .. Wellington.
1207. Shaw, Ernest Loftus .. .. ,,
1208. Waterworth, Francis John ’ .. .. .. ,,
1209. Harvey, Percy Ronald .. .. ,,
1210. Hancock, Joseph Francis .. .. Lower Hutt.
1211. Smith, Alfred Jesse .. .. Wellington.
1212. Pettengell, Albert Edward .. .. Brooklyn.
1213. Yates, Herbert George .. .. Masterton.
1214. Jones, Daniel .. .. .. Dunedin.
1215. Burgess, Henry Victor .. .. Gore.
1216. Stott, Alfred Hugh .. .. Invercargill.
1217. Thomson, George .. .. .. ,,
1218. Eunson, Robert Ernest .. .. ,,
1219. Murdoch, Wallace .. .. .. ,,
1220. Barrett, Richard .. .. .. Auckland.

Funds approved under Section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th November, 1916.

PURSUANT to section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, I hereby notify, for public information, that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
Denniston and Burnetts Face Patriotic Committee .. .. Denniston.
Camp Entertainment Committee .. .. Wellington.
Murchison Soldiers’ Gift Fund .. .. Murchison.
Middlemarch Patriotic Committee .. .. Middlemarch.
Awakino Branch of the North Taranaki Patriotic League .. .. Awakino.
Rotorua Branch, Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association.. .. Rotorua.
Clinton Patriotic Committee .. .. Clinton.
Otira Line Clothing Fund .. .. Moana.
Milburn-Clarendon Patriotic Committee .. .. Clarendon.
Hunterville Departing Soldiers Society .. .. Hunterville.

GENERAL.

Funds raised for the support of hospitals for horses and for the care of wounded horses, on behalf of or for transmission to headquarters of the “Blue Cross Society, London.”

Funds raised by ladies’ sewing or hospital guilds, where the whole of the moneys raised are used by the guilds for the purchase of material to be made up into articles of clothing, &c., or expended directly in the purchase of extra comforts for members of the forces. Funds raised for the purchase of ordinary military equipment are not included in this approval.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Booksellers’, Stationers’, and Fancy-goods Shops in the Borough of Gisborne, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of booksellers, stationers, and fancy-goods dealers within the Borough of Gisborne, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough should be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6 o’clock p.m.; and Saturdays at 9.30 p.m.; Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, 12 o’clock p.m.:

And whereas the Gisborne Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of booksellers, stationers, and fancy-goods dealers within the Borough of Gisborne:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 6th day of November, 1916, all booksellers’, stationers’, and fancy-goods shops in the Borough of Gisborne shall be closed as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9.30 p.m.; with the exception of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, when the closing-hour shall be 12 midnight. The hours so fixed are, pursuant to subsection (4) of the above-mentioned section, to be observed subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. for the half-holiday on the statutory closing-day.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of October, 1916.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers’, Tobacconists’, and Hairdressers and Tobacconists’ 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 hairdressers’, tobacconists’, and hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops within the City of Christchurch, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: 10 p.m. on Saturday, 9 p.m. on Friday, 1 p.m. on the half-holiday, and 6 p.m. on the other three nights; with the following exceptions—9 p.m. on the evening before Good Friday; 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 9 p.m. on Thursday, during Carnival Week: 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during National Week; 12 p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve; 9 p.m. on Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday for shops closing at 1 p.m. on Saturday:

And whereas the Christchurch City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of hairdressers’, tobacconists’, and hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops within the City of Christchurch:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 6th day of November, 1916, all hairdressers’, tobacconists’, and hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops in the City of Christchurch shall be closed at 10 p.m. on Saturday, 9 p.m. on Friday, and 6 p.m. on the three nights of the week other than Friday, Saturday, and the day observed as a half-holiday; with the following exceptions—9 p.m. on Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday for shops closing at 1 p.m. on Saturday; 9 p.m. on the evening before Good Friday; 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 9 p.m. on Thursday, during Carnival Week; 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during National Week; midnight on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

The notice gazetted on the 20th day of April, 1916, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of October, 1916.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.