Aug. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2781

posal was 111. The total number of valid votes recorded was 261.

I therefore declare the above proposal carried.

Dated this 25th day of July, 1918.

E. R. PILKINGTON,
Chairman, Tamaki West Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 30th July, 1918.

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

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF KAWHIA.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

IN pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Awaroa Special Rating Area No. 2 taken on the 17th day of July, 1918, on the proposal of the Kawhia County Council to borrow the sum of £750 for continuing the formation and widening of the Awaroa-Mahoe Road, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 17, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated at Kawhia this 24th day of July, 1918.

ALFRED W. BABBAGE,
Chairman, Kawhia County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 31st July, 1918.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Morrinsville Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

MORRINSVILLE TOWN DISTRICT.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Morrinsville Town District was taken on the proposal of the Morrinsville Town Board to raise a special loan of £3,500 for the purpose of acquiring a recreation-ground.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 93, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 12; informal, 1.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal exceeding the total number of valid votes recorded against the proposal, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

GEORGE HOWIE, Chairman.

Morrinsville Town Board, 8th July, 1918.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of all Hairdressers and Tobacconists’ Shops (combined) in the Borough of Gisborne, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops (combined) within the Borough of Gisborne, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough should be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Saturdays at 10.30 p.m., with the exception of the working-day preceding Christmas Day and that preceding New Year’s Day, when the hour of closing shall be 11.30 p.m. Should any such shopkeeper (pursuant to section 19 of the Act) observe the half-holiday in any week on another day than Thursday, then the hour of closing on Thursday shall be 6 p.m.:

And whereas the Gisborne Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops (combined) within the Borough of Gisborne:

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 5th day of August, 1918, all hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops (combined) within the Borough of Gisborne 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, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Saturdays at 10.30 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) The working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day, when the closing-hour shall be 11.30 p.m.; (2) should the occupier of any shop bound by the provisions of this notice observe, pursuant to the provisions of section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, any day other than Thursday as the statutory closing-day in any week, then and in such case the closing-hour on Thursday shall be 6 p.m.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of July, 1918.

W. H. HERRIES,
Acting Minister of Labour.

By-law No. 79, New Zealand Government Railways.—By-law regulating the Occupation of Reserved Carriages, &c., on the Railways.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by the Government Railways Act, 1908, and its amendments, and all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Railways, do hereby make the by-law set forth in the Schedule hereto, regulating the occupation of reserved carriages, compartments, or seats on the railway or any part thereof; and I do hereby declare that such by-law shall come into force from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

BY-LAW.

79. WHEN any railway carriage, or compartment or seat in a railway carriage, has been reserved for any particular reason or for any person or class of persons, any person other than the person or persons for whom the carriage, compartment, or seat has been reserved, who shall enter or occupy any such reserved carriage, compartment, or seat, shall immediately quit the same when requested to do so by the person or any of the persons for whom the carriage, compartment, or seat has been reserved, or by any officer of the Railway.

Any person who shall commit a breach of the foregoing by-law may be removed from such reserved carriage, compartment, or seat by any officer of the Railway, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each breach.

Given under my hand this 30th day of July, 1918.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

Water taken from Goat or Fitzgerald’s Creek for the Purpose of the Midland Railway.

WHEREAS by subsection (1) of section 13 of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Minister of Public Works may from time to time impound, divert, and take away any water from any stream or running water, or may purchase or acquire any right or interest therein, for the purpose, inter alia, of supplying water for the use of any railway:

And whereas it is desirable to impound, divert, and take away from Goat or Fitzgerald’s Creek (hereinafter referred to as “the said creek”) in Block X, Otira Survey District, at a point situated about twenty-five chains west of the Midland Railway, two heads of water for the use of the Midland Railway at or adjacent to Otira Railway-station, which point is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44566, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington:

Now, therefore, I, William Fraser, Knight Bachelor, Minister of Public Works for the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 13 of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby notify and declare that two heads of water are hereby taken from the said creek at or near the point of intake hereinbefore referred to, for the purpose of supplying water to the Midland Railway as aforesaid.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of July, 1918.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.