Oct. 18.

the 3rd day of September, 1923, on the proposal of the Hauraki Plains County Council to borrow the sum of seven thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds (£7,750) for the purpose of constructing bitumen roads in the said area, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 43; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 9th day of October, 1923.
JAMES C. MILLER, Chairman of the County.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law.- Coromandel County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th October, 1923.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 109 of the Counties Act, 1920, that so much of the by-laws made by the Coromandel County Council and sealed on the 17th day of September, 1923, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Coromandel County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.
RICH.D. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law.- Awatere County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th October, 1923.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 107 of the Counties Act, 1908, that so much of the by-laws made by the Awatere County Council, and sealed on the 4th day of October, 1923, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Awatere County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.
RICH.D. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Takahue Survey District, for the more Effective Carrying-out of the Drainage or other Works authorized by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage or other works authorized by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915; and notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office, at Kaitaia, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 5·9 perches, being portion of O.L.C. 214.
Situated in Block I, Takahue Survey District. (S.O. 21367).
In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55068, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1923.
F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Public Works.

Trustee of Kawa West Rabbit District elected.--Notice No. Ag. 2302.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 13th October, 1923.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Kawa West Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that Mervyn Roy Ashton has been duly elected a trustee of the said district, vice R. G. Blennerhassett, resigned.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

2623

Defence Rifle Clubs disbanded.

Department, of Defence,
Wellington, 10th October, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence rifle clubs under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :- Ruawai Legion of Frontiersmen Defence Rifle Club, with Headquarters at Ruawai, Northern Wairoa. Taupiri Defence Rifle Club, with Headquarters at Taupiri.

Date of disbandment, 24th August, 1923.
R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 12th October, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to Major C. E. Clifton, Retired List.
R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, fixing the Closing-hours of Boot-dealers' Shops in the Borough of Petone.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the boot-dealers' shops in the Borough of Petone has been forwarded to me desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 6 p.m.; Friday, 9 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 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 Boot-dealers' shops in the Borough of Petone:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 29th day of October, 1923, all the boot-dealers' shops in the Borough of Petone shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 6 p.m., and on Friday at 9 p.m.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 14th February, 1907, fixing the closing-hours of boot and shoe dealers' shops in the Borough of Petone is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of October, 1923.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Appointment of Members of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research.

Native Minister's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1923.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred on me by the regulations made under section 9 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Native Minister for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the undermentioned persons to be members of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, constituted by the said section :- Elsdon Best, Esq., of Wellington. Archdeacon Herbert William Williams, of Gisborne. Dr. Peter Henry Buck (Te Rangihiroa), of Auckland. Harry Devenish Skinner, Esq., of Dunedin.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Board of Maori Ethnological Research.

Native Minister's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1923.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the members of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, constituted under section 9 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923, are as follows :- The Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates (Chairman). The Honourable Sir Maui Pomare. The Honourable Apirana Turupa Ngata. Tau Henare, Esq. Henare Wharewiti Uru, Esq. Robert Noble Jones, Esq. (Deputy Chairman). James Hislop, Esq. Elsdon Best, Esq. Archdeacon Herbert William Williams. Dr. Peter Henry Buck (Te Rangihiroa). Harry Devenish Skinner, Esq.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.