APRIL 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1053

ERNEST GEORGE STAPP

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and
Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, for the District
of Feilding, as from the 1st April, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

By-laws of the Geraldine County Council confirmed under the
By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th April, 1916.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of the by-law made by the Geraldine County
Council on the 6th day of December, 1915.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the within-written by-law, and declare that the same came
into force on the 1st day of January, 1916.

Dated this 6th day of April, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Geraldine County Council confirmed under the
By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th April, 1916.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of the by-law made by the Geraldine County
Council on the 6th day of December, 1915.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the within-written by-law, and declare that the same came
into force on the 1st day of January, 1916.

Dated this 6th day of April, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Geraldine County Council confirmed under the
By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th April, 1916.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of by-law (heavy-traffic and traction-engine by-
law) made by the Geraldine County Council on the 6th day
of December, 1915.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the within-written by-law (heavy-traffic and traction-engine
by-law), and declare that the same came into force on the
1st day of January, 1916.

Dated this 6th day of April, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Waitara Borough Council confirmed under
the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th April, 1916.

THE following certificate has been executed on the
sealed copy of by-laws made by the Waitara Borough
Council on the 2nd day of February, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came
into force on the 10th day of February, 1916.

Dated this 10th day of April, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists and Druggists'
Shops in the Borough of Lyttelton, 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 within the Borough of Lyttelton, has been forwarded
to me, desiring that all such shops in the district shall be
closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday,
7 p.m.; Tuesday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Thursday,
7 p.m.; Friday, 9 p.m.:

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

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 17th
day of April, 1916, all chemists and druggists' shops in the
Borough of Lyttelton shall be closed in accordance with such
requisition, subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m.
for the statutory half-holiday; provided, however, that on
the statutory half-holiday chemists' shops may reopen from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. only for the supply of medicines and surgical
appliances.

The notice gazetted on the 24th June, 1915, is hereby
cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of April, 1916.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Kowhai Street, in the Town of
Riverview, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 29th February, 1916.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by section 15 of the Land Act, 1908, I hereby
authorize the laying-off of Kowhai Street, in the Town of
Riverview, in the Southland Land District, of a width of not
less than 66 ft. instead of 99 ft.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

[NOTE.—This notice is in substitution of the one appearing
in Gazette No. 35, page 927, of 30th March, 1916, which
contained an error.]

Appointment of Dominion Commandant of the National
Reserve.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th April, 1916.

THE following appointment is approved in accordance
with section 3(3) of the Defence Amendment Act,
1915, and paragraph 6(a) of the regulations made there-
under as published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30, of
the 9th March, 1916:

The National Reserve.

Colonel THOMAS WILLIAM PORTER, C.B., T.D. (Retired List),
to be Dominion Commandant. Dated 9th March, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

War Regulations Act, 1914.—Highway at Featherston Camp
closed for Traffic except with Consent of Military Authorities.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 12th March, 1916.

WHEREAS by clause 13 of the War Regulations made
and gazetted on the 20th day of September, 1915,
it is provided that the Minister of Defence may, by notice
signed by him and published in the Gazette, declare that any
highway adjoining or intersecting any camp of military
training or exercise is closed for traffic except with the con-
sent of the military authorities, and that so long as any such
notice remains unrevoked the highway to which it relates
shall for the purpose of the War Regulations be deemed to
be no longer a highway, but to be part of the camp which it
so adjoins or intersects:

Now, therefore I, James Allen, the Minister of Defence
for the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-
recited power and authority, do hereby declare that part
of the Featherston-Greytown Road commencing at the south-