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Town Act, 1907), was affixed to the above-written by-laws in the presence of—

B. M. WILSON,
General Manager.

The above written by-laws were signed by the Honourable William Donald Stuart MacDonald, the Minister in Charge of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, in the presence of—

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Private Secretary.

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APPROVAL BY DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICER.

The above by-laws, so far as they are made under or affected by the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1908, are hereby approved by me, and were so approved of by me before they were made by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.

Given under my hand this 7th day of January, 1918.

THOMAS J. HUGHES,
District Health Officer for the District of Auckland.

Witness to the signature of the District Health Officer—

H. G. H. MONK,
Health Office, Auckland.

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Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Rangiora Borough Council.—Notice No. 1907.

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Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 8th January, 1918.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Rangiora Borough Council 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:—

Ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum).
Hemlock (Conium maculatum).
Periwinkle (Vinca major).

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

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

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Department of Labour,
Wellington, 8th January, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Waitara General Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 716, situated at Waitara, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

W. NEWTON,
Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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Election of Member of Nelson Land Board.—Result of Poll.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 20th December, 1917.

PURSUANT to section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations made thereunder, I, Frederick Augustus Thompson, Returning Officer for the election of a member to the Nelson Land Board, do hereby notify the result of the poll taken on the 18th day of December, 1917, for the election of a member to the Nelson Land Board, to be as follows:—

Candidate. Votes polled.
Patterson, Robert .. .. .. 462
Sinclair, George Bell .. .. .. 109
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Number of valid votes .. .. .. 571
Number rejected as informal .. .. 25
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Total number of votes recorded .. 596

And I hereby declare the above-named ROBERT PATTERSON, having received the greatest number of valid votes, to be duly elected a member of the Nelson Land Board.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Returning Officer.

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Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

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Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th January, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

The Right Reverend Bishop WILLIAM CHARLES SADLIER,
Chaplain to the Forces (2nd Class), New Zealand Chaplains Department,

he having a total commissioned service to the 21st November, 1917, entitling him thereto, of twenty-one years two hundred and forty-five days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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

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General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1918.

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 officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed a Transmitting and Receiving Officer 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:—

SILVANUS GABRIEL DANIEL, Postmaster, Hawera.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs

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Reprint from “Board of Trade Journal.”

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Customs Department,
Wellington, 9th January, 1918.

THE following reprint from the “Board of Trade Journal,” of the 11th October, 1917, is published for general information.

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Prohibitions of Export.—Proclamation of 27th August.

WITH reference to the notice at pages 523–4 of the “Board of Trade Journal” for the 6th September respecting the Proclamation of the President of the United States of America (dated 27th August) imposing restrictions on the exportation of articles from the Republic, the Board of Trade are now in receipt, through the Foreign Office, of copy of the text of the Proclamation in question. The operative portions of the Proclamation are reproduced below:—

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it may concern that the public safety requires that, except at such time or times, and under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limitations and exemptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress, the following articles, namely,—

All kinds of arms, guns, ammunition, and explosives, machines for their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all articles necessary or convenient for their use; all contrivances for or means of transportation on land or in the water or air, machines used in their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all instruments, articles, and animals necessary or convenient for their use; all means of communication, tools, implements, instruments, equipment, maps, pictures, papers, and other articles, machines, and documents necessary or convenient for carrying on hostile operations; coin, bullion, currency, evidences of debt, and metal, materials, dies, plates, machinery, and other articles necessary or convenient for their manufacture; all kinds of fuel, food, foodstuffs, feed, forage, and clothing, and all articles and materials used in their manufacture; all chemicals, drugs, dyestuffs, and tanning materials, cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp, jute, sisal, and other fibres and manufactures thereof; all earths, clay, glass, sand, and their products; hides, skins, and manufactures thereof; non-edible animal and vegetable