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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

proposal was 149, and the number of votes recorded against
the proposal was 80.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
CYRIL WHITE,
Chairman of the County.
Dated at Te Karaka this 29th day of February, 1916.

Members of Ohakune Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th March, 1916.
THE undermentioned persons have been appointed or
elected to be members of the Ohakune Fire Board
constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointed by the Governor—
Henry William Littlewood.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Frederick George Cray.
Charles Rooking Carter Robieson.
Reginald Joseph White.
Elected by the Ohakune Borough Council—
Joseph Alexander Butler.
John Hugh Craven.
Patrick Joseph Dunne.

Notice respecting Proposed Petane North River District, County
of Hawke’s Bay.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1916.
IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented
to His Excellency the Governor, under the River Boards
Act, 1908, and its amendments, praying that the area de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a river
district under the said Acts, by name the Petane North River
District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge
any written objections to or petitions against the constitution
of the said river 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 THE PROPOSED PETANE
NORTH RIVER DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded by
a line along the sea-shore from the mouth of the Esk River
northward to a point bearing 307° 20′ from old traverse peg
LXIII shown on plan 216 deposited in the office of the District
Land Registrar at Napier; thence along a line through the
said peg LXIII for a distance of 1550 links, thence by lines
generally along the foot of the hills 1535, 700, 880, 750, 1400,
1340, 270, 805, 581, 675, 3370, 2300, 1050, 1325, 710, 420,
395, and 1350 links to the left bank of the Esk River, and
thence along the left bank of that river to the sea, the place
of commencement.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Petane South River District, County
of Hawke’s Bay.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1916.
IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to
His Excellency the Governor, under the River Boards
Act, 1908, and its amendments, praying that the area de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a river
district under the said Acts, by name the Petane South River
District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge
any written objections to or petitions against the constitution
of the said river 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 THE PROPOSED PETANE
SOUTH RIVER DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded
towards the north by the Esk River from the bridge on the
Napier–Wairoa Road to the sea; towards the east by the sea
to the south-eastern corner of Allotment 33, Te Pahou Block;
towards the south by the southern boundary of that allot-
ment to and across a public road to the north-eastern side of
the Napier–Petane Road; towards the south-west by the said
Napier–Petane Road, and towards the west by the Napier–
Wairoa Road to the bridge over the Esk River, the place of
commencement.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the
Borough of Gore, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a ma-
jority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops
within the Borough of Gore, has been forwarded to me,
desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed
in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m.; on Wednes-
days (the statutory half-holiday) at 8 p.m.; on Saturdays
at 9 p.m.; on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve at 10.30
p.m.:
And whereas the Gore Borough Council has certified that
the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of
the occupiers of chemists’ shops within the Borough of Gore:
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 13th day
of March, 1916, all chemists’ shops within the Borough of
Gore shall be closed in accordance with such requisition,
subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. for the statutory
half-holiday in each week; provided, however, that on the
statutory half-holiday chemists’ shops may reopen from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m. only for the supply of medicines and surgical ap-
pliances.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of March, 1916.
W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Sale of Publications prohibited under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

WHEREAS by regulations made under the War Regulations
Act, 1914, on the 11th day of October, 1915, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette on the same day, it is provided that the
Minister of Defence may by notice gazetted prohibit the sale of any
book or other publication the sale of which he deems injurious to
the public interest in respect of the present war:
Now, therefore, I, James Allen, Minister of Defence for the Do-
minion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the said regula-
tions, prohibit the sale of the periodical publications mentioned in the
Schedule hereto.
Dated this 29th day of February, 1916.

SCHEDULE.
THE International Socialist Review.
The Fatherland.
Issues and Events.
Newspapers or other periodicals printed wholly or partly in the
German language, and published or purporting to be published
in the United States of America.
J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.