Dec. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3183

SITTINGS IN BANCO AND IN CHAMBERS.

Sittings of the Court in Banco will be held at the Court-house, AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, and DUNEDIN, every Wednesday, at half past 10 o’clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge’s Chambers, in the Courthouse, AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, and DUNEDIN, every Tuesday and Friday, at half past 10 o’clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and in vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

In all other cities and towns in which sittings of the Court are held, such business in Banco and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

PROVISION AS TO HOLIDAYS.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings shall be a public holiday, the sitting shall commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday. It shall be lawful for any one or more Judges of the Supreme Court to order that the Supreme Court and the offices thereof at any place shall be closed for any public or proclaimed holiday in the district.

Given under our hands at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
J. H. HOSKING, J.
T. W. STRINGER, J.
JOHN W. SALMOND, J.
ALEX. S. ADAMS, J.

Approved in Council.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

John Marston Le Fevre .. .. Beaumont.
Francis William Craig .. .. Blenheim.
Duncan Campbell McKenzie .. .. Glenham.
William Thomas Coad .. .. Hamilton.
Phyllis Betsey Milroy .. .. Opapa.
Mary McKenzie Pryde .. .. Patetonga.
Hugh Paterson Donald .. .. Timaru.
Catherine Murray .. .. Utiku.
Thomas James Boland .. .. Waipukurau.
Albert Nyanza Wallace .. .. Waiuku.
Harold Rupert Day .. .. Whangamomona.
Archibald Edward Lester .. .. Mayfield.

As witness my hand, this 4th day of December, 1922.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

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Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Whakatane.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th December, 1922.

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the Borough of Whakatane, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said borough and included in the County of Whakatane. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM BOROUGH OF WHAKATANE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 235 acres, more or less, being part of the Borough of Whakatane, commencing at the intersection of the right bank of the Whakatane River and the west side of Hinemoa Street, bounded towards the east by Hinemoa Street, and towards the south, west, and north generally by the right bank of the Whakatane River to the place of commencement.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Pianofortes, imported from Countries having a Depreciated Currency, liable to Special Duty.

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Customs Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that pianofortes are deemed by the Minister to be goods of a class or kind which, if imported into New Zealand from countries having a depreciated currency, would prejudicially or injuriously affect an industry established in New Zealand or in some other part of the British Dominions.

The special duty imposed by section 13 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, as amended by section 18 of the Finance Act, 1921–22, and section 7 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1922, on goods imported from countries (other than those referred to in an Order in Council made on the 24th October, 1922, and gazetted on the 26th idem) having a depreciated currency is therefore on and from the 1st day of January, 1923, payable on pianofortes.

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.

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Dumping Duty on Brass Cocks.

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Customs Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that it is intended to immediately levy dumping duty under section 11 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, upon imported brass cocks wherever the actual selling-price to an importer in New Zealand is less than the cost of production (including a reasonable profit) in the country of origin of the goods.

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.

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Friendly Society registered.

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Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 4th December, 1922.

THE South Canterbury United Friendly Societies’ Council, situated at Timaru, is registered as a friendly society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 4th day of December, 1922.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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Mining Privilege struck off the Register.—Notice under the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

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Warden’s Court,
Blenheim, 27th November, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 30, subsection (4), of the Mining Amendment Act, 1914, that I have this day struck the undermentioned mining privilege off the Register.

A. F. BENT, Mining Registrar.

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SCHEDULE.

HAVELOCK REGISTRY.

No. 140. Date: 12/4/16. Nature of privilege: Residence-site. Locality: Wakamarina. Registered holder: Thor Matison Breck.

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Officiating Ministers for 1922.—Notice No. 36.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1922.

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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Donald MacKenzie.

Congregational Independents.
Rev. John Harold Datson.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.