Oct. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2499

at 6 p.m., on Fridays at 9 p.m. ; in the evening of the working-day first preceding Christmas Day there shall be no fixed closing-hour ; in the evening of the working-day that first precedes Good Friday the closing-hour shall be 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 shops in each of the trades of (1) draper, (2) clothier, and (3) mercer within the Borough of Blenheim :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I do hereby direct that on and after the 20th day of October, 1921, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) draper, (2) clothier, and (3) mercer in the Borough of Blenheim shall be closed accordingly.

The notice gazetted on the 18th May, 1916, fixing the closing-hours of drapery, clothing, mercery, and boot-dealers’ shops in the Borough of Blenheim is hereby superseded, in so far as it relates to the shops affected by this notice, as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of October, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

By-laws of the Timaru Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th October, 1921.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Timaru Borough Council on the 22nd day of August, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 31st day of August, 1921.

Dated this 8th day of October, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Forfeiture of Land in Southland Land District rescinded.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th October, 1921.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Southland Land Board has rescinded its resolution forfeiting the licensee’s interest in the undermentioned land, notice of which appeared on page 1959 of the Gazette of the 21st July, 1921.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 39, Block VI, Campbelltown Hundred. Licensee : Executors of late James Rowland Colyer.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 55 of 1921.

WESTPORT HARBOUR.—WESTERN BREAKWATER LIGHT TRANSFERRED.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th October, 1921.

THE Westport Harbour Board notifies that owing to the action of heavy seas it has been found necessary to transfer the red fixed light which marks the seaward end of the Western Breakwater to a position further upstream.

The present position of the red fixed light is 150 ft. from the extreme outer end of the Western Breakwater.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 2591 ; “ New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, page 382 ; “ Admiralty Light List,” Part VI, No. 3080 ; “ New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1921, page 397.

ROBERT DUNCAN, Secretary.

Payment of Moneys to Natives.

Office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 8th October, 1921.

IT is notified that an officer of the Board will be in attendance at the undermentioned times and places for the purpose of paying to the Native owners all moneys due to them from the lands and townships under the administration of the Board :—

The Courthouse, Te Kuiti, on Monday, 7th November, 1921, at 10 a.m.

The Courthouse, Otorohanga, on Wednesday, 9th November, 1921, at 9 a.m.

The Courthouse, Taumarunui, on Thursday, 10th November, 1921, at 10 a.m.

E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

Result of Land Surveyors Examination, September, 1921.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 6th October, 1921.

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

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

Alcock, Norman Forrest, of Whangarei.
Bedlington, Keith Lewis, of Whangarei.
Clark, Eric Raymond, of Auckland.
Cox, Trevor Wakeford, of Auckland.
Jackson, Charles Herbert, of Auckland.
Heather, Duncan Stanley Burgoyne, of Auckland.
Martin, George Ivan, of Auckland.
McLean, Andrew Dishington, of Auckland.
McMillan, Thomas Scott, of Auckland.
McCaw, Douglas, of Hamilton.
Harris, Harold Wilson, of Christchurch.
Milward, George Robert, of Dunedin.

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

Officiating Ministers for 1921.—Notice No. 31.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1921.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Leonard Herbert Fenn.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Thomas A. Brady.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Letters of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 6th October, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that letters of naturalization or endorsements of letters of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the Aliens Act, 1908, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Internal Affairs.