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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 16

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1923.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence
Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :-
Ngapara Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at
Ngapara.
Date of acceptance, 19th January, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Plants declared by the Taumarunui County Council to be
Noxious Weeds.-Notice No. 2246.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 6th February, 1923.

It is hereby notified, for public information, that the
Taumarunui County Council has, by special order,
declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the
meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district
under its jurisdiction :-
African boxthorn.
Barberry.
Bathurst burr.
Broom.
Burdock.
Cape honeyflower.
Capeweed or Cape daisy.
Cut-leaved psoralea.
Dock.
Elderberry.
Fennel.
Foxglove.
Giant burdock.
Goat's rue.
Gorse.
Hakea.
Hemlock.
Japanese wineberry.
Kangaroo acacia.
Lantana.
Lupin.
Ox-eye daisy.
Pennyroyal.
Periwinkle.
Prickly pear.
Spiderwort.
St. John's wort.
Tauhinu, or New Zealand
cottonwood.
Thistles : Any species of
Carlina (stemless thistle),
Carduus (common plume
or Scotch thistle), Cnicus
(woolly-headed thistle),
Centaurea (star thistle),
Silvium (milk thistle).
Tutsan.
Viper's bugloss.
Wild borage.
Wild turnip.
Winged thistle.
Pennycress or Canadian
stinkweed.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Trustees of Moawhango Rabbit District elected.-Notice
No. 2247.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th February, 1923.

Notice has been received, under the hand of the
Returning Officer of the Moawhango Rabbit District,
constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,
that
Arthur Olding Pareau Batley,
Gordon Buchan Chrystall,
Frederic Randall Cottrell,
Charles William Ensor,
Conrad Bryan Heatley, and
James Whittle
have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, fixing the
Closing-hours of Butchers' Shops in the Borough of Cam-
bridge.

Whereas a requisition in writing, signed by a majority
of the occupiers of all the butchers' shops in the
Borough of Cambridge, has been forwarded to me, desiring
that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening
of working-days as follows : Subject to closing at not later
than 1 o'clock p.m. on the day observed as the statutory
half-holiday, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays at 5 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 butchers' shops within
the Borough of Cambridge :
Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops
and Offices Act, 1921-22, I do hereby direct that on and
after the 22nd day of February, 1923, all the butchers' shops
in the Borough of Cambridge shall be closed accordingly.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of February, 1923.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.-Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1923.

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 James Morris Beaufort.
The Reverend Hugh Henry Scriven Hamilton, B.A.
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. William Kellie.
Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Clement Arthur Hawke.
Salvation Army.
Adjutant Norman Jenkins.

Alteration of Titles.-In Notice No. 1, published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 25th January, 1923, page 265,
under Salvation Army, for " Staff-Captain John Shore Bladin "
read " Major John Shore Bladin "; for " Major David Angus
Gunn " read " Brigadier David Angus Gunn "; for " Com-
mandant Thomas E. Holmes " read " Staff-Captain Thomas E.
Holmes "; for " Captain Leslie J. Toomer " read " Ensign
Leslie J. Toomer."

J. L. PALETHORPE,
Acting Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.-Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1923.

It is hereby notified that the name of the following
Officiating Minister has been removed from the list of
Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by
request :-
Salvation Army.
Adjutant James Downie.

J. L. PALETHORPE,
Acting Registrar-General.

Auckland Education Board.

In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act,
1914, and its amendments, it is hereby publicly notified
that Mr. Frederick Augustus Snell, of Claudelands, has been
duly elected as a member of the Education Board of the
District of Auckland, for the Hamilton Urban Area.
The result of the voting was as follows :-
Frederick Augustus Snell .. .. .. 18 votes.
Clement Whittingham Wycherley .. .. 18 votes.
In accordance with the provisions of section 15 of the
Second Schedule of the Education Act, the election was
determined by me by lot, Mr. Snell being the duly elected
candidate.

E. C. PURDIE, Returning Officer.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 9th February, 1923.

I hereby acknowledge receipt of the following amounts
forwarded by persons unknown as conscience-money to
the New Zealand Government :-
8s. forwarded to the Railway Department.
£5 and £1 forwarded to the Land and Income Tax
Department.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.-Declaration by the Registrar
dissolving a Society.

I, Donald George Clark, Registrar of Incorporated
Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made
to appear to me that The Canterbury Rod and Gun Club
(Incorporated), is no longer carrying on operations and has
no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pur-
suance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of February, 192?.

D. G. CLARK,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.