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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Special Order made by the Opotiki Borough Council declaring Gorse to be a Noxious Weed.—Notice No. Ag. 2438.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 4th December, 1924.

THE following special order, made by the Opotiki Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Opotiki Borough Council hereby resolves and declares by way of special order that the plant mentioned in the Schedule hereto (being a plant mentioned in the Third Schedule to the said Act, as extended from time to time by the Governor-General in Council) is a noxious weed within the Borough of Opotiki.

Schedule.

Gorse (Ulex europoeus).

The above resolution was passed at a special meeting of the Opotiki Borough Council held on Tuesday, the 28th day of October, 1924, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting of the Council held on the 28th day of November, 1924.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Waitemata Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Friday, the 19th day of December, 1924, at 3 o’clock p.m. as the time, and the Chamber of Commerce, Auckland, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Waitemata Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of November, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Franklin Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 18th day of December, 1924, at 2 o’clock p.m., as the time, and the Franklin County Offices, Hall Street, Pukekohe, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Franklin Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of December, 1924.

J. C. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Board of Maori Ethnological Research.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1924.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the members of the Maori Purposes Fund Control Board constituted under section 3 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1924, are as follows:—

The Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates, M.P. (Chairman).
The Honourable Sir Maui Pomare, M.P.
The Honourable Apirana Turupa Ngata, M.P.
Tau Henare, Esq., M.P.
Henare Wharewiti Uru, Esq., M.P.
Robert Noble Jones, Esq. (Deputy Chairman).
John Caughley, Esq.
K. S. Williams, Esq., M.P.
Dr. P. H. Buck (Te Rangihiroa).
Rev. F. A. Bennett.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Henry Michaels and Company, Berlin.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the firm whose name and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance and an immoral business, it is hereby ordered under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said firm shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said firm (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name) or addressed to the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

HENRY MICHAELS AND COMPANY, Post Box 30, Hauptpostamt, Friedenau-Berlin, Germany.
Henry Michaels and Company, 14 Sudwestkorso, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.

Dated this 10th day of December, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Fruiterers’ Shops in the One Tree Hill Road District.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the fruiterers’ shops in the One Tree Hill Road District, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the road district be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—At 7 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from the 1st day of May to the 31st day of October (both inclusive) in each year; at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from the 1st day of November to the following 30th day of April (both inclusive): Provided, however, that these hours shall not apply to any day hereinbefore mentioned when such day immediately precedes a public holiday:

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 said shops within the said road district:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 15th day of December, 1924, all the fruiterers’ shops within the One Tree Hill Road District shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—From 1st May to 31st October (both inclusive), on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and from the 1st November to 30th April (both inclusive), on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 9 p.m., with the exception that on the evening of the working-day that first precedes any day generally observed as a public holiday in the One Tree Hill Road District there shall be no fixed closing-hour.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of December, 1924.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister of Labour.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Fruiterers’ Shops in the City of Auckland.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the fruiterers’ shops in the City of Auckland has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the city be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—At 7 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from the 1st day of May to the 31st day of October (both inclusive) in each year; at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from the 1st day of November to the following 30th day of April (both inclusive): Provided, however, that these hours shall not apply to any day hereinbefore mentioned when such day immediately precedes a public holiday:

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 said shops within the said city:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 15th day of December, 1924, all the fruiterers’ shops within the City of Auckland shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—From 1st May to 31st October (both inclusive), on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 7 p.m.; and from the 1st November to 30th April (both inclusive), on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 9 p.m., with the exception that on the evening of the working-day that first precedes any day generally observed as a public holiday in the City of Auckland there shall be no fixed closing-hour.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of December, 1924.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister of Labour.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Fruiterers’ Shops in the Borough of Mount Albert.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the fruiterers’ shops in the Borough of Mount Albert, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—At 7 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from the 1st day of May to the 31st day of October (both inclusive) in each year; at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from the 1st day of November to the following 30th day of April (both inclusive): Provided, however, that these hours shall