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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

232·5, 74, 143, and 239 links to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Block XIV, Cambridge Survey District, being parts of Lots 1A and 1B on the aforesaid deposited plan 3299, containing by admeasurement 54 acres 1 rood 25 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 1733 links ; towards the south-east by other parts of Lots 1A and 1B on aforesaid deposited plan 3299, 3122·4 links ; towards the south-west by the Waikato River; and towards the north-west by other part of Lot 1A on plan deposited as aforesaid numbered 3930, 279·8, 1468·9, and 1448 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. No. 21/9, deposited at the Head Office, Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

Notifying Land in the Wellington Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 29th March, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Graystoke Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 30th September, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

GRAYSTOKE SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Land District of Wellington, containing 1,066 acres 2 roods 31·3 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. XLII, XLIII, and part of LI, Rangitikei District, Blocks XI and XV, Wangaehu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west and the north-east generally by Jefferson Road, 14541·3 links ; towards the south-east by Section No. XXXV, 10290·3 links ; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. XXXIX and XL, 8414·3 links ; and towards the south-west generally by the abutment of a public road, by Section No. XLI, 2705 links and 3612·4 links, and by other part of Section LI, 2839·5 links : be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same is delineated on a plan marked L. and S. No. 21/24, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Notifying Land in the Wellington Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 29th March, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Fairfield Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 30th September, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

FAIRFIELD SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 231 acres 2 roods 4 perches, more or less, being Section No. 304, Township of Carnarvon. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 4580·3 links ; towards the south-east generally by Section No. 346, 3852·3 links, and by Section 384, 1873·4 links ; towards the south-west by Section 384, 3573·6 links ; and towards the north-west by a public road, 6186·4 links.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 788 acres 0 roods 34 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 300, 301, 302, and 303, Township of Carnarvon. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road, 11473·7 links ; towards the north-east generally by a public road, 2006·6 links, and by Section No. 299, 6136·6 links ; towards the south-east by Section No. 346, 13380 links ; and towards the south-west by a public road, 4605·9 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 21/34, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Notifying Land in the Canterbury Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 29th March, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Lees Valley Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from the 28th February, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

LEES VALLEY SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 26,984 acres, more or less, situated in Upper Ashley and Mount Thomas Survey Districts, and being Sections 23909 to 23912, 24531, 25544 to 25548, 25559, 25854, 25963, 26054, 31408, 33168, and 33637, and parts Pastoral Runs 145 and 145A, and portion of the Crown land formerly part of Reserves 3114 and 3115. Commencing at the northernmost corner of Section 24531, and bounded towards the east generally by Section 37048, a public road, again by Section 37048, and by part Section 8, Lees Valley Block towards the south-east generally by a public road, by Reserves 3114 and 3115, again by a public road, and Reserve 3115 to the Ashley River; thence towards the west generally by that river and the Whistler River; thence towards the north-west by other part of Run 145A to the Ashley River; thence across that river; thence towards the west by the Ashley River and by other part of Run 145; thence towards the north by other part of Run 145, by Reserve 3269, and again by other part of Run 145 to the southernmost corner of Section 24531; thence towards the west by other part of Run 145 to the northernmost corner of Section 24531 aforesaid, the point of commencement : excluding from the above-described area part Section 8, Lees Valley Block, containing 95 acres, and the Ashley River.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being Section 5145, Block VII, Upper Ashley Survey District. Bounded towards the north, south, east, and west by Run 145A, 817 links, 2451 links, 817 links, and 2451 links respectively.

As the above-described areas are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. No. 8/8/17, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Outfitters' Shops in the City of Wellington, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the (a) drapers', and (b) clothiers', mercers', and outfitters' shops within the City of Wellington, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows : 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; 10.30 p.m. on Fridays; and 1 p.m. on Saturdays :

And whereas the Wellington City 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) drapers, and (b) clothiers, mercers, and outfitters within the City of Wellington :

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 5th day of April, 1917, all (a) drapers', and (b) clothiers', mercers', and outfitters' shops in the City of Wellington shall be closed at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and 10.30 p.m. on Fridays.

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 8th day of April, 1909, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of April, 1917.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Labour.