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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

STATEMENT showing DISCOUNT-STAMP TRANSACTIONS in the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 31ST DECEMBER, 1922.

General Post Office, Wellington, 24th January, 1923.
A. T. MARKMAN, Acting-Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 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:—

Ringatu Church.

The Reverend—
Horotiu, T. R.
Kapua, E. N.
Kereapa, Tukere.
Korouri, Te Amo.
Maitai, Te Moti.
Matawha, Eruera.
Poihipi, Tuakana Kore.
Rangiaho, J. M.
Repanga, Matiu.
Taare, Hemi Tuhi.
Te Hau, Angiangi.
Te Rauhea, Paraone.
Tetawhiro, Waiapu.
Turoa, Kaawa.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 17th January, 1923.

THE Loyal Tauranga Lodge, No. 8155, situated at Tauranga, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 17th day of January, 1923.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

THE Wildey Lodge, No. 107, situated at Island Bay, Wellington, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 16th day of January, 1923.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Tenders for Supply of Uniforms.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 7th February, 1923, for the supply and delivery of uniforms, cloth and waterproof, caps and helmets, during the half-year ending 30th June, 1923.

Forms and conditions of tender may be obtained at the office of the Stores Manager, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, and the offices of the Chief Postmasters, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

R. B. MORRIS, Secretary.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Masterton County Council.—Notice No. 2242.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 19th January, 1923.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Masterton County Council has, by special order, declared broom to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Cancellation of Notice under the Shops and Offices Act fixing the Closing-hours of Tobacconists’ Shops in the Borough of New Plymouth.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of New Plymouth, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the notice fixing the closing-hours of all tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of New Plymouth under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, dated the 24th day of February, 1922, and contained in the New Zealand Gazette No. 16, of the 2nd March, 1922, be cancelled :

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 tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of New Plymouth :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that the notice gazetted on the 2nd March, 1922, fixing the closing-hours of tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of New Plymouth shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of January, 1923.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.