APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 987

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1921.

THE following result of an election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.

Waitomo Valley, County of Waitomo—
John Crean.
Alexander Dette.
James Reilly, jun.
Ernest George Stainton.
Jack Thompson.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Boot and Shoe Dealers’ Shops in the Borough of Otaki, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the boot and shoe dealers’ shops within the Borough of Otaki, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: (1.) Up to and including the 31st day of May, 1921, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m.; provided that should the occupier of any boot and shoe dealer’s shop affected by this requisition observe, pursuant to section 11 (2) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, Saturday as the statutory closing-day, that shop shall be closed on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m. and on Fridays at 9 p.m. (2.) On and after the 1st day of June, 1921, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 5.30 p.m., and on Fridays at 9 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 boot and shoe dealers’ shops in the Borough of Otaki:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I do hereby direct that on and after the 28th day of April, 1921, all boot and shoe dealers’ shops in the Borough of Otaki shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of April, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of all the Grocers’ Shops in the Borough of Otaki, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the grocers’ shops in the Borough of Otaki, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: (1.) Up to and including the 31st day of May, 1921, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 8 p.m.; provided that should the occupier of any grocer’s shop affected by this requisition observe, pursuant to section 11 (2) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, Saturday as the statutory closing-day, that shop shall be closed on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m. and on Fridays at 8 p.m. (2.) On and after the 1st day of June, 1921, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 5.30 p.m., and on Fridays at 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 grocers’ shops within the Borough of Otaki:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I do hereby direct that on and after the 28th day of April, 1921, all the grocers’ shops within the Borough of Otaki shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of April, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

CEDRIC WHILTON SEWELL, Esquire, of Murray Street, Colac, in the State of Victoria, a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria, has this day been appointed by the Honourable William Alexander Sim, Acting Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

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

W. A. HAWKINS,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Establishment of Probation Homes for Children, and Appointment of Juvenile Probation Officers.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th April, 1921.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by section 10 of the Statute Law Amendment Act, 1917, I, Christopher James Parr, Minister of Education of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the following industrial schools to be established as probation homes for children:—

Receiving Home, Hamilton.
Receiving Home, Napier.
Receiving Home, Wanganui.
Receiving Home, Nelson.

And I have further appointed the following persons to be Juvenile Probation Officers:—

Miss Sarah Farquhar.
Miss Ida Ellen Mary Spicer.
Mrs. Annie Alberta Elizabeth Whitehouse.
Miss Constance Digby Jenkins.
Miss Alice Tootell.
Miss Alice Emma Baker.
Mrs. Emma Pytt-Jackson.
Miss Elizabeth Smailes.
Miss Agnes Moncrieff Bowie.
Miss Alice Edwards.
Miss Jane Vaughan Colyer.
Miss Caroline Mary Wallace.
Miss Christina Christie.
Miss Eliza Agnes O’Shea.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Education.

Amended Date of Sitting of the Supreme Court, Northern Judicial District.

WE, five of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by the Judicature Act, 1908, hereby make the following rule respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court for the Northern Judicial District, such rule to be an amendment of the rule made on the 26th day of October, 1920, which amendment is as follows:—

Sittings for the trial of criminal cases will be held in the Supreme Court House, Auckland, to commence on the following day, at 11 a.m.: Monday, the 8th day of August, 1921, instead of Monday, the 18th day of August, 1921.

And in all other respects, and save as herein expressly mentioned, we confirm the said order of the 26th day of October, 1920.

Given under our hands this 19th day of April, 1921.

W. A. SIM, A.C.J.
J. H. HOSKING, J.
T. W. STRINGER, J.
A. L. HERDMAN, J.
JOHN W. SALMOND, J.

Result of Land Surveyors Examination, March, 1921.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 14th April, 1921.

AT the examination of candidates for a surveyor’s license held in March-April, 1921, under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, and conducted by the Federated Surveyors’ Boards of Australia and New Zealand, fifteen candidates presented themselves in New Zealand.

Six of these candidates succeeded in obtaining passes, as under:—

Carroll, John Joseph, of Auckland.
Dick, Russell Gladstone, of Auckland.
Grant, William Hunter, of Wellington.
Smart, Robert Orton, of Gisborne.
Till, Norman John, of Auckland.
Twynford, Arthur Charles, of Wellington.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Election of Governor, Auckland Grammar School Board.

IN accordance with the Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899, and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Education Board of the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that at a meeting of the said Board held this day Mr. ARCHIBALD BURNS was duly elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act.

E. C. BANKS, Chairman of Meeting.

Auckland, 5th April, 1921.