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of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 1 acre 0 roods 33·6 perches.

Portion of Te Ahikawariki No. 3, Block II, Waoku Survey District (S.O. 19408).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41759, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured blue.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 26th day of March, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block. XI, Waipakura Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block XI, Waipakura Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Makirikiri, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P. Portion of
1 0 6·4 Pukekowhai No. 2; coloured purple.
4 1 30 " " blue.
0 0 1·4 " " "
1 0 22·9 " " "
1 3 20·4 Pukekowhai No. 3 " pink.

Situated in Block XI, Waipakura Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39645, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers’ and Tobacconists’ Shops in the Borough of Oamaru, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the (a) hairdressers’ and (b) tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Oamaru, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of working days as follows: 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; 6.15 p.m. on Tuesdays; and 10 p.m. on Saturdays; with the following exceptions—(a) the working-night preceding Christmas Day and the working-night preceding New Year’s Day, when the closing-hours shall be 11.30 p.m., (b) the night preceding each day on which the Oamaru half-yearly race meeting is held, when the closing-hour shall be 8 p.m., (c) on Friday in the week in which the Oamaru Show is held, when the closing-hour shall be 8 p.m., (d) the working-night preceding any statutory or proclaimed holiday, when the closing-hour shall be 8 p.m. :

And whereas the Oamaru 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 (a) hairdressers and (b) tobacconists within the Borough of Oamaru :

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 2nd day of April, 1917, all hairdressers’ and tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of Oamaru shall be closed accordingly.

Pursuant to subsection (4) of the said section, 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 day of November, 1910, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of March, 1917.

W H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.

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

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1917.

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 :—

ROBERT BOOTH, Superintendent, Telegraph Office, Dunedin.

GEORGE LEVY, Postmaster, Whangarei.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
For Minister of Telegraphs.

School Colours, &c.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1917.

THE following claim for registration of school colours, &c., is gazetted in accordance with regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th of August, 1915.

Objections to the claim set forth must be addressed to “The Registration Officer for School Colours, &c., Education Department, Wellington,” and must be delivered at that address within forty days of the date of the publication hereof.

W. J. ANDERSON,
Registration Officer.

GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, INVERCARGILL.

Colours.—Band 2¼ in. wide of navy, with red edges ¼ in. wide, and a white stripe ⅛ in. wide running through the middle.

Badge.—A shield bearing a rata flower and encircled by a blue band, with the inscription “Non scholæ sed vitæ discimus” thereon.

Member of the House of Representatives elected.—Bay of Islands Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1917.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 10th day of March, 1917, for the election of a member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Bay of Islands, and by the endorsement on such writ it appears that

VERNON HERBERT REED

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

J. HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 19th March, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Wellington Master Butchers’ Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 186, situated at Wellington, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.