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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—

Ivan Innes McGregor, Postmaster, Gore.
Alfred William Downer, Postmaster, Stratford.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Telegraphs.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for H. J. Williamson, 62 Warwick Street, Hobart, Tasmania.

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.

H. J. Williamson, 62, Warwick Street, Hobart, Tasmania.

Dated this 19th day of May, 1926.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Postmaster-General.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for Rev. H. Westropp, S.J., Champaran, India.

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.

Rev. H. (or H. I.) Westropp, S.J., Victoria Mission P.O., Champaran, India.

Dated this 19th day of May, 1926.

W. NOSWORTHY, for the Postmaster-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 14th May, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Mangawara Drainage District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

MANGAWARA DRAINAGE BOARD.

Northern Subdivision.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the Northern Subdivision of the Mangawara Drainage District was taken on the 17th day of April, 1926, on the proposal of the Mangawara Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £500 sterling for the purpose of constructing and improving watercourses and drains in, and providing outfalls for water from, the Northern Subdivision of the Board’s district, and to provide for the purchase of any necessary tools, equipment, machinery, or plant for the work, and engineering or other incidental expenses arising therefrom.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 9; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 12. I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 20th day of April, 1926.

R. W. G. RUTHERFORD, Chairman.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of (1) Hairdressers’ and (2) Tobacconists’ Shops within the Borough of Dannevirke.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist within the Borough of Dannevirke, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the said borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows—On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6 p.m., and on Saturday at 9.30 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) On the Thursday immediately preceding Good Friday the closing-hour shall be 10.30 p.m.; (2) on the working-day that first precedes Christmas Day and on the working-day that first precedes New Year’s Day there shall be no fixed closing-hour:

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 May, 1926, all the shops in each of the trades of (1) hairdresser and (2) tobacconist within the Borough of Dannevirke shall be closed accordingly.

The notice dated the 8th April, 1908, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 9th April, 1908, fixing the closing-hours of hairdressers’ and tobacconists’ shops in the Borough of Dannevirke is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of May, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

New Zealand Government Railway Department.

NEW LOCOMOTIVE WORKSHOPS AT HILLSIDE (DUNEDIN) AND NEW CAR AND WAGON SHOPS AT ADDINGTON (CHRISTCHURCH).

WRITTEN tenders will be received up to noon on the 1st November, 1926, at the office of the Railway Board, Wellington, New Zealand, for the erection of new locomotive workshops at Hillside, Dunedin, and new car and wagon workshops at Addington, Christchurch.

Plans, specifications, and conditions of contract may be seen at the offices enumerated below :—

United Kingdom .. The office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London.
Canada .. The office of the Department of Labour, Ottawa.
Australia .. The New Zealand Government Offices at Sydney and Melbourne.
New Zealand .. The Chief Engineer’s Office, Railway Buildings, Wellington.
The Railway Engineer’s Offices at Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Telegraphic tenders will not be considered.
Separate tenders for either new locomotive workshops at Hillside or new car and wagon shops at Addington will not be considered.

By Order.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1926.

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 :—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. James Alfred Ernest Preston.

The United Evangelical Church in New Zealand.

The Reverend W. H. Ashmore.

The Ratana Church of New Zealand.

Apostle Rangiahuta Paamarika Paaka.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.