1952
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Whangarei County was affixed at a meeting and by order of the Whangarei County Council on the 8th day of July, 1921, in the presence of—

W. JONES, Chairman.
T. N. BLAKE, Councillor.
H. C. HEMPHILL, Clerk.

I certify that the foregoing special order was duly passed by the Whangarei County Council on the 10th June, 1921, and duly confirmed on the 8th day of July, 1921.

H. C. HEMPHILL, County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 20th July, 1921.

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

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

WHAREPAPA ROAD BOARD.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan of £5,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Wharepapa Road Board was taken on the 5th day of July, 1921, on the proposal of the Wharepapa Road Board to borrow the sum of £5,000 for metalling the following roads in the Wharepapa Road District for the first time:—

Main Road, Te Kawa to Ngaroma .. 2,600
Otorohanga-Kihikihi Road .. 700
Mangaorongo-Te Kawa Road .. 1,000
Te Mawhai (Cruickshank’s Road) .. 700
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£5,000

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 135, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 13. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 6th day of July, 1921.

J. B. TEASDALE, Jun., Chairman.

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

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops in the Borough of Gisborne, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) on the working-day that first precedes any of the special days mentioned in or coming within the meaning of section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, or any other day generally observed as a holiday in the district, there shall be no fixed closing-hour; (2) should the occupier of any shop affected by this requisition observe, pursuant to the above-mentioned Act, Saturday as the statutory closing day, then and in such case the closing-hour on Thursday for any such shop shall be 5.30 p.m. and on Friday 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 chemists’ shops within the Borough of Gisborne :

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 July, 1921, all the chemists’ shops within the Borough of Gisborne shall be closed accordingly.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st August, 1919, fixing the closing-hours of chemists’ shops in the Borough of Gisborne is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of July, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of (1) Booksellers’ and (2) Stationers’ Shops in the Borough of Thames, 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) bookseller and (2) stationer in the Borough of Thames, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough 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 10 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) on the working-day first preceding Christmas Day and on the working-day first preceding New Year’s Day the closing-hour shall be midnight; (2) subject to exception (1) hereof, on the working-day first preceding each of the special days mentioned in or coming within the meaning of section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, the closing-hour shall be 10 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) bookseller and (2) stationer within the Borough of Thames :

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 July, 1921, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) bookseller and (2) stationer in the Borough of Thames shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of July, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Tairua 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 VI, Tairua 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 Puketui, 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P.
5 2 39 Section 5B, Wharekawa East Block; coloured yellow.
5 3 31 Section 4B No. 1, Wharekawa East Block; coloured neutral.
3 1 29 Section 4A, Wharekawa East Block; coloured red.
1 0 14 Matakaitaki Block; coloured neutral.

Situated in Block VI, Tairua Survey District. (S.O. 20194.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 51532, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Result of Election of a Member of a River District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th July, 1921.

THE following result of the election of a member of a River Board has been received from the Returning Officer, and published in accordance with the provisions of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.

J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.

Mangawara River District, No. 3 Subdivision, County of Waikato—

Lionel Roy William Reid.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ALAN PERCY CRISP, Esq., of Hobart, in Tasmania, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, has this day been appointed by the Honourable Mr. Justice Sim, Acting Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Tasmania, 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 12th day of July, 1921.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Registrar, Supreme Court.