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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 107

Deputy Sheriff appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th August, 1919.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

GEORGE SMEATON CLARK

to be Deputy Sheriff for the district of Wellington, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 26th day of July, 1919.

A. C. TURNBULL,
Secretary.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Watchmakers’ and Jewellers’ Shops in the City of Christchurch, 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) watchmaker and (2) jeweller in the City of Christchurch, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., and on Fridays at 9 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 p.m.; (2) should the occupier of any shop affected by this requisition observe, pursuant to section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, any of the days therein mentioned other than Saturday as the statutory closing-day in any week, then and in such case the closing-hour on Saturday for any such shop in that week shall be 6 p.m., and should such special day fall on Friday the closing-hour on the working-day immediately preceding such Friday shall, subject to exception (1) hereof, be 9 p.m.:

And whereas the Christchurch 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 (1) watchmaker and (2) jeweller within the City of Christchurch:

Now, therefore, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 3rd day of September, 1919, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) watchmaker and (2) jeweller in the City of Christchurch shall be closed accordingly.

All notices hitherto gazetted fixing the closing-hours of shops in the above-mentioned trades in the City of Christchurch are hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of August, 1919.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Wairewa County Council.—Notice No. 1974.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 25th August, 1919.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Wairewa County Council has, by special order, declared gorse (Ulex europæus), broom (Cytisus scoparius), ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), and foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Acting Minister of Agriculture.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th August, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to issue letters of naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned person:—

INGEBORG MARIE JOHNSSEN, Widow, Hikurangi.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th August, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to issue letters of naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned person:—

IVAN MICHAEL ANTUNOVIC, Freezing-works Employee, Waitara.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th August, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to issue letters of naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned person:—

CARL ERIC ROBERT HOLM, Mill Hand, Manunui.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Notification of Deposit of Amended Rules, Waimarino Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st August, 1919.

IT is hereby notified that a copy of the amended rules of the Waimarino Acclimatization Society have been deposited in this office, and have been approved by the Governor-General in Council under the Animals Protection Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 21st August, 1919.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

ARCHIBALD MORRIS SEAMAN,

of Auckland, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister in Charge.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1919.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

CYRIL MACKLEY,

of Wellington, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister in Charge.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th October, 1919.

I HEREBY acknowledge the receipt of the sum of £6 10s., forwarded to the Treasury by “Nemo,” as conscience-money to the Electoral Department, New Zealand Government.

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