3896

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 142

working-day in the week at 9 p.m. and on Wednesdays at 1 p.m.:

And whereas the Wallace County Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Wairo Riding of Wallace County:

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 27th day of December all shops in the Wairo Riding of Wallace County shall be closed in the evening of every working-day at 9 p.m.: Provided that nothing in this notice shall permit any such shop to remain open after the hour of 1 p.m. on the day observed as the weekly half-holiday.

The notice gazetted on the 17th December, 1914, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December, 1916.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Butchers’ 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 butchers’ shops in the City of Christchurch (excepting those shops wherein no meat is offered for sale other than pork, bacon, or small goods, and known as “pork-shops”), has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city should be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: At 5 p.m. on four nights of the week, at 1 p.m. on the statutory half-holiday, at 6 p.m. on one night of the week, and at 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve:

And whereas the Christchurch City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the butchers’ shops (excepting those shops wherein no meat is offered for sale other than pork, bacon, or small goods, and known as “pork-shops”) in 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 21st day of December, 1916, all such shops in the City of Christchurch shall be closed at 5 p.m. on four working-days and 6 p.m. on one working-day in the week other than the day observed as the statutory half-holiday: Provided that on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve the closing-hour shall be 9 p.m.

Pursuant to subsection (4) of the said section, nothing in this notice shall permit any shop to remain open after the hour of 1 p.m. on the day observed as the weekly half-holiday.

The notice gazetted on the 17th October, 1912, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December, 1916.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.

Rules for the Examination of Masters, Mates, and Engineers.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th December, 1916.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the 27th day of October, 1916, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 124, of the 2nd day of November following, additional rules were made for the examination of masters, mates, and engineers, requiring that a candidate should be a British subject, and that at the time of his birth each of his parents was a British subject by birth or by naturalization in New Zealand:

And whereas it is desirable to amend these rules:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 23 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I do hereby revoke clause 2 of the hereinbefore-mentioned rules, and do make and substitute the following clause therefor:—

“2. In order to prove that he complies with these conditions, every candidate for any of the certificates named must produce to the Examiner of Masters, Mates, or Engineers his own birth certificate, and the birth certificate or certificate of naturalization of each of his parents, or such other evidence of nationality as the Minister of Marine may consider satisfactory.”

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Marine.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Dunedin City Council.—Notice No. 1858.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 15th December, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Dunedin City Council has, by special order, declared gorse, elderberry, and broom to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the City of Dunedin.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Kihikihi Town Board.—Notice No. 1859.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 15th December, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Kihikihi Town Board has, by special order, declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction: Gorse, broom, fennel, winged thistle, Bathurst burr.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1916.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

WILLIAM BESWICK, Chief Postmaster, Wanganui.
CHARLES HILL, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.
HENRY DRYDEN GROCOTT, Chief Postmaster, Oamaru.
SIMEON INDER, Postmaster, Palmerston North.
JAMES ALEXANDER MCLAREN, Postmaster, Naseby.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Telegraphs.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for H. E. Kugelman.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name is shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in a fraudulent undertaking, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), shall be registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

H. E. KUGELMAN.

Dated this 19th day of December, 1916.

ROBERT McNAB,
For the Postmaster-General.

Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Stores.

Wellington, 19th December, 1916.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Chairman, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 28th February, 1917, for the supply and delivery, C.I.F. & E., Wellington, of 40,000 yards jumper wire, and 2,500 metallic circuit plugs.

Particulars and conditions of tendering may be obtained at the office of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, the District Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch, or at the offices of the Telegraph Engineers at Auckland and Dunedin.

J. ORCHISTON,
Chairman.