July 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2617

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to the late Captain Charles Leslie Sommerville, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington and West Coast) Mounted Rifles, he having a total service to the 2nd April, 1918, entitling him thereto, of twenty-one years and eighty-nine days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers’ and Tobacconists’ Shops in the City of Wellington, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist in 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: Subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. on the day observed as the statutory closing-day, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at 7 p.m., on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., on Fridays at 9 p.m., and on Saturdays at 10 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) The two working-days (other than the day observed as the statutory closing-day) immediately preceding Christmas Day, and the two working-days (other than the day observed as the statutory closing-day) immediately preceding New Year’s Day, when the closing-hour shall be 11 p.m.; (2) the working-days (other than the days observed as the statutory closing-day) in the period from the 17th day of December to the 31st day of December (both days inclusive), when the closing-hour shall, subject to paragraph (1) hereof, be 9 p.m.:

And whereas the Wellington City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of all the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist within the City of Wellington:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Acting Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 22nd day of July, 1918, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist in the City of Wellington shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of July, 1918.

W. H. HERRIES,
Acting Minister of Labour.

Additional Regulations under the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1918.

I, ARTHUR MIELZINER MYERS, Minister of Customs, do hereby make the following additional regulations under section 96 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908, that is to say:—

(1.) An informant may in lieu of the notice required by Minister’s Order No. 1076, dated the 13th day of March, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th day of March, 1914, give general notice as to any goods which may at any time be imported and which may have applied to them any forged trade-marks, false trade descriptions, or marks, names, or descriptions otherwise illegal.

(2.) The notice aforesaid shall be in the form in the Schedule hereto, or in such other form as the Minister may from time to time order or direct.

SCHEDULE.

NOTICE.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908.

To the Comptroller of Customs, Wellington.

I HEREBY give you notice that the undermentioned goods, that is to say,—

[Describe the goods, marks used, and any other particulars necessary for their identification]

may from time to time be imported into New Zealand; and that such goods are liable to detention and forfeiture, being [State how the goods may infringe the Act]; and that , and , of , are prepared to become my sureties for such bond as may be required; and I request that the said goods may be detained and dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908.

Dated at this day of , 191 .

[Signature.]

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 11(2.)

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th July, 1918.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Whakatane County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Loan of £250.—Taneatua Hall.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers interested, taken on Wednesday, the 3rd day of July, 1918, on the proposal of the Whakatane County Council to borrow the sum of £250 for enlarging, generally improving, and lighting the Taneatua Hall, also for cost of raising payment of interest and sinking fund for the first year, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 60; no votes were recorded against the proposal.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

W. REID,
Chairman, Whakatane County Council.

Importation of Goods into the United States.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 17th July, 1918.

ADVERTING to the notice dated 24th April, 1918, published in the New Zealand Gazette of 9th May, 1918, it is notified, for general information, that in accordance with information now received the following goods should be sent direct to importers in the United States and not to any trade association or to a British Consul-General:—

Wool, jute, flax, cotton, mica, rubber and rubber substitutes, plumbago, tin, leather, tanning materials, all hides and skins, lacs of all kinds.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Waitotara County Council.—Notice No. 1933.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Waitotara County Council has, by special order, declared Cape daisy (Cryptostemma calendulacea) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

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

Transfer, New Zealand Inscribed Stock.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 11th July, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Minister of Finance has prescribed the fee of 5s. to be paid on the transfer of stock under the New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th July, 1918.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge receipt of the sum of £6 15s., forwarded to the Superintendent, Telegraph Office, Christchurch, by some person unknown, described as “Conscience-money: Telephone.”

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.