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for the purpose of road-construction and bridge and culvert building, and constructing and metalling roads in the Wainui Riding of the County of Waitemata, as per Schedule hereunder.

Schedule referred to.
Silverdale-Whangaparaoa Road : Earthwork, culverts, and metalling ... ... ... 3,750 Stanmore Bay Road : Widening and metalling ... 700 Whangaparaoa-Tiri Road : Widening and metalling ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,200 Silverdale-Wainui Road— Bridge-reconstruction ... ... ... ... 1,350 Earthwork and metalling ... ... ... ... 1,200 Upper Orewa-Waiwera Road : Bridge-reconstruction ... ... ... ... 400 Stoney's Road : Bridge-reconstruction ... ... 100 Wainui-Kaukapakapa Road— Bridge-reconstruction ... ... ... ... 1,100 Repayment of special loan ... ... ... ... 1,400 Wainui-Waiwera Road— Bridge and culvert reconstruction ... ... 750 Widening and metalling ... ... ... 3,000 Upper Waiwera-Puhoi Road : Bridge-reconstruction ... ... ... ... 500 Massey Road— Fencing-compensation ... ... ... 500 Formation and bridges ... ... ... 850 Silverdale Township : Footpath construction, widening, regrading, and metalling ... 250 Wainui-Tahekeroa : Formation, bridges, and culverts ... ... ... ... ... 750 Upper Waiwera-Tahekeroa : Formation, bridges, and culverts ... ... ... ... ... 500 Silverdale-Waiwera Road— Bridge-reconstruction ... ... ... 1,500 Metalling ... ... ... ... 700 Purchase of plant ... ... ... ... 500 £21,000 The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 177 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 95. The number of votes recorded for the proposal being the necessary three-fifths required by the statute, I therefore declare that the proposal was carried. Dated at Auckland this 3rd day of August, 1925.

FRANK W. GRIGG, County Chairman.

Hauraki Plains Rating-area.—Notice of Intention to make and levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 19th August, 1925. NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908, and its amendments, to make and levy a rate for the period from 1st April, 1925, to the 31st March, 1926, on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act. The amount of such rate will be payable in one sum on the 10th day of September, 1925. The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer's Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, and a copy of the same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, Kerepehi, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for F. Scott, Box 1130, G.P.O., Wellington.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is 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 shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.
F. SCOTT, Box 1130, G.P.O., Wellington, New Zealand. Dated this 14th day of August, 1925.

C. J. PARR, Postmaster-General.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers and Tobacconists' Shops in the Borough of Feilding.

WHEREAS pursuant to section 32 (5) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, His Excellency the Governor-General has, by Order in Council dated the sixth day of August, 1925, grouped the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist, commonly carried on together in the Borough of Feilding as the trade of hairdresser and tobacconist :

And whereas a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists' shops in the said borough, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. on the day observed as the statutory half-holiday, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 6 p.m., and on Fridays at 10 p.m., excepting Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and the night preceding the first day of the November race meeting, when the hour of closing shall be 10.30 p.m., and further excepting that on any night preceding a day which is generally observed as a public holiday in the borough, any hairdresser and tobacconist whose shop is closed for the whole of that holiday may keep his shop open until 9 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 said shops within the said borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 31st day of August, 1925, all the hairdressers and tobacconists' shops within the Borough of Feilding shall be closed accordingly.

The notices published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 27th May, 1915, fixing the closing-hours of (1) hairdressers and (2) tobacconists' shops in the Borough of Feilding are hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

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

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, prohibiting the Sale in the Borough of Feilding of certain Goods comprised in the Trade of Hairdresser and Tobacconist.

WHEREAS pursuant to section 32 (5) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, His Excellency the Governor-General has, by Order in Council dated the 6th day of August, 1925, grouped the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist, commonly carried on together in the Borough of Feilding as the trade of hairdresser and tobacconist :

And whereas a petition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the hairdressers and tobacconists' shops within the said borough has been forwarded to me, desiring that the sale of certain goods comprised in the trade of a hairdresser and tobacconist—namely, tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars—be prohibited during such time as the said shops are required to be closed in pursuance of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22 :

And whereas I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the sale of the said goods is comprised in the trade of a hairdresser and tobacconist in the said borough, and that the signatures to such petition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops in the said borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 33 of the said Act, I do hereby direct that on and after the 31st day of August, 1925, the sale of the said goods in the Borough of Feilding shall be and is hereby prohibited as follows—on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, after the hour of 6 p.m., and on Fridays after the hour of 10 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and the night preceding the first day of the November race meeting, after the hour of 10.30 p.m. ; (2) on the night preceding a day that is generally observed as a public holiday in the said borough, after the hour of 9 p.m

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

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.