Mar. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 615

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1923.

THE Grafton United Branch, No. 5, situated at Mount Eden, Auckland, is registered as a branch of The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society of New Zealand, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 21st day of February, 1923.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 19th February, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Napier Furniture and Furnishing Trades’ Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 1006, situated at Napier, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Notice to Mariners—No. 10 of 1923.

FIRTH OF THAMES.—PIAKO RIVER.—ELECTRIC CABLE LAID.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th February, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that two electric power transmission cables, each carrying 11,000 volts, have been laid across the bed of the Piako River at a position of about 340 yards northward (down stream) from the Ngatea Bridge. All vessels are warned not to use anchors or in any other manner to risk interference with the cables when in the locality in which the cables are laid.

A. D. PARK, Secretary.

Destruction of Deer, Ashburton.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer—may be taken or killed within the Ashburton Acclimatization District, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the Secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatization Society at Ashburton, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such Secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said Secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to 31st December, 1923.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said Secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sex of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations is liable to a fine of £20.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Destruction of Deer, Hawke’s Bay.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer—may be taken or killed within the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization Society at Napier, or any person duly authorized in writing by such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to 31st December, 1923.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sex of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations is liable to a fine of £20.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Destruction of Deer, Otago.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer—may be taken or killed within the Otago Acclimatization District, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society at Dunedin, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to the 31st day of December, 1923.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sex of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations is liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Ashburton (Rangitata Gorge) Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd day of April, 1923, to the 10th day of May, 1923 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Ashburton Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—within that part of the said acclimatization district described in the First Schedule hereto, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be issued by the Postmaster at Ashburton, upon the recommendation of the secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £5, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. The number of such licenses to be issued by the said Postmaster shall not exceed four. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person; and also that if the number