1988

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal
Correspondence for Gosford “Ten” Art Union.

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

SCHEDULE.

The Secretary, Gosford “Ten” Art Union, Box 21, Gosford,
New South Wales.
Gosford “Ten” Art Union, Box 21, Gosford, New South
Wales.

Dated this 16th day of June, 1925.

C. J. PARR, Postmaster-General.

Interim Return of Sheep in the Dominion on the 30th April,
1925.—Notice No. Ag. 2508.

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 22nd June, 1925.

THE following particulars are published for general
information:

APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE DOMINION ON THE
30TH APRIL. 1925.

NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE DOMINION AND EXPORT OF
MUTTON AND LAMB FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AT 30TH
APRIL.

• Interim return.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

ga zetted on the 13th December, 1923, fixing the closing-
hours of grocers' shops in the said city 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 said shops in the said
city :

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 13th December, 1923, fixing the closing-
hours of grocers' shops in the City of Nelson, shall be and is
hereby cancelled as from the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Member of House of Representatives elected, Franklin Electoral
District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,

Wellington, 25th June, 1925.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ
issued on the 30th day of May, 1925, for the election of
a member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Franklin, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

Ewen Donald McLennan

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

J. HISLOP, Clerk of the Writs.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1925.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service:

Charles William Carver, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Wardens' Courts and Receiver of Gold
Revenue and Mining Registrar at Greymouth and Ahaura for
the Westland Mining District constituted under the Mining
Act, 1908, Registrar at Greymouth of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908,
Sheriff for the District of Westland for the purposes of the
Judicature Act, 1908, Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at
Greymouth for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act,
1908, and Local Patent Officer at Greymouth for the purposes
of section 15 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act,
1921–22, as from the 16th day of June, 1925.

Leslie William Louisson, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Hokitika, for the
purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1908; Clerk of the
Wardens' Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining
Registrar at Hokitika and Kumara for the Westland Mining
District constituted under the Mining Act, 1908; Registrar
at Hokitika of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the
purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908; and Local Patent
Officer at Hokitika, for the purposes of section 15 of the
Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22 : as from the
12th day of June, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board.-Declaration of
Result of Election of Two Producers' Representatives for
North Island.

I, HAROLD GERARD, Returning Officer for the purpose
of taking the votes of producers, do hereby declare the
result of the election of two producers' representatives to
serve as North Island members of the New Zealand Dairy-
produce Control Board, which closed on the 15th day of
June, 1925, to be as follows:

Candidates. Votes.

Grounds, William ... 7,157
Motion, William Claud ... 6,799
Gibson, George ... 4,514
Hogg, Herbert Roughton ... 4,420
Bodley, Henry ... 554
Stopford, Charles Alexander ... 497
Dixon, Percy William ... 453

Number of votes rejected as informal ... 241

I therefore declare the said William Grounds and William
Claud Motion, who have received the greatest number of
votes, to be elected.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of June, 1925.

H. GERARD, Returning Officer.

Cancellation of Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22,
fixing the Closing-hours of Grocers' Shops in the City of
Nelson.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority
of the occupiers of all the grocers' shops in the City
of Nelson, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the notice