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boundary of Ohotu No. 9 Block; thence to and along that boundary and the southern boundary of Section 1, Block IX, Ngamatea Survey District, to the Aratawa Trig. Station; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of Section 1, Block XII, Tauakira Survey District, to the middle of the Matahiwi-Ohotu Road; thence along the middle of that road to a point in line with the western boundary of Section 3, Block VIII; thence to and along the said western boundary and the northern boundary of the said Section 3 to the middle of the Mangaetoroa Stream; thence up the middle of the said stream to and along the southern boundary of the Mairehau No. 2 Block; thence north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of Morikau No. 1 Block to the middle of the Matihope Stream; thence down the middle of that stream and the Mangoihe Stream to the eastern boundary of Section 17, Block XV, Rarete Survey District; thence to and along that boundary and the northern boundary of the same section to the middle of the Matauriki Stream; thence up the middle of that stream and along the northern boundary of Section 11, Block XI, Rarete Survey District, to the north-eastern boundary of the Otaranoho Block; thence along the said north-eastern boundary and the northern and western boundaries of the said Otaranoho Block and the western boundary of the Ohoutahi Block to the middle of the Wanganui River; thence up the middle of that river to the point of commencement: excluding the Boroughs of Ohakune and Raetihi and the Town District of Rangitaua.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Winton.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th December, 1921.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under section 133 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto, being now part of the County of Southland, may be excluded from the said county and included in the Borough of Winton. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed inclusion which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE INCLUDED IN BOROUGH OF WINTON.

ALL that parcel of land, in the Southland Land District, containing 369 acres 1 rood 14 perches, more or less, commencing at the north-west corner of Section 36, Block I, Town of East Winton. Bounded towards the north by the northern boundaries of Sections 36 and 35, Block I, Town of East Winton, across a public road, and by the northern boundary of Section 49, Block I, Town of East Winton aforesaid, to the Invercargill-Kingston Railway; towards the east by the said railway to the Borough of Winton; towards the south, east, and north by the said Borough of Winton; towards the south-west and north-west by the said Borough of Winton to the Invercargill-Kingston Railway aforesaid; towards the north-east generally by the said railway to the south-east corner of Section 9, Block V, Town of East Winton aforesaid; towards the south by the southern boundary of the said Section 9, across a public road, and by the southern boundaries of Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, Block VI, of the said Town of East Winton; towards the west by Section 2, Block VI, Winton Hundred; again towards the south by the last-mentioned section about 30½ chains to a flood channel; towards the west and north-west generally by the said flood channel to a point about 425 links north of the north-east corner of Section 7, Block VI, Winton Hundred; again towards the west by Section 8, Block VI, Winton Hundred aforesaid, to the place of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XIV, Rangiriri Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block XIV, Rangiriri Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Pukemiro, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 11 perches.

Portion of Section 81, Pepepe Parish, Block XIV, Rangiriri Survey District. (S.O. 21280.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 51959, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured vermilion.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of (1) Tobacconists and (2) Hairdressers Shops in the Borough of Oamaru, 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) tobacconist and (2) hairdresser in the Borough of Oamaru, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 6 p.m. Friday, 10 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) should the occupier of any shop affected by this requisition observe, pursuant to the Shops and Offices Act, some day other than Saturday as the statutory closing-day, then and in such case the closing-hour on Saturday for any such shop shall be 10 p.m. and on Friday 6 p.m.; (2) in the evening of any day on which the Agricultural Show is held in Oamaru, and in the evening of any day on which a race meeting is held in Oamaru, the hour of closing shall be 8 p.m.:

And whereas I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of (1) tobacconist and (2) hairdresser within the Borough of Oamaru:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I do hereby direct that on and after the 29th day of December, 1921, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) tobacconist and (2) hairdresser in the Borough of Oamaru shall be closed accordingly.

The notice gazetted on the 29th March, 1917, fixing the closing-hours of hairdressers’ and tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of Oamaru is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of December, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Birkenhead Borough Council.—Notice No. 2118.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th December, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Birkenhead Borough Council has, by special order, declared hawthorn to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Waikohu County Council.—Notice No. 2119.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 20th December, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Waikohu County Council has, by special order, declared hawthorn to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Current Domestic Value of Goods under Customs Acts.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 19th December, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that with respect to all goods liable to ad valorem duty which are imported on and after 1st April, 1922, such duty shall be chargeable on the current domestic value of such goods as defined by the Customs Acts.

On and after that date the practice of accepting duty, in certain cases, on the purchase-price of goods instead of on the current domestic value thereof will cease.

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.