2800
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within
the said city be closed in the evening of working-days as
follows: Subject to closing at not later than 1 p.m. on the
day observed as the statutory half-holiday, on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6.15 p.m., and on
Fridays at 9.15 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) the
working-day immediately preceding, and the day of any
race meeting held at Wingatui or Forbury Park, 9.15 p.m. ;
(2) on the working-day immediately preceding any day
generally observed in the City of Dunedin as a public holiday,
11 p.m. ; (3) should the occupier of any shop affected by this
requisition observe Friday or Saturday as the statutory
closing-day in any week, then and in such case there shall
be no fixed closing-hour on Friday for any such shop in that
week, and the closing-hour on Wednesday for any such
shop in that week shall be 9.15 p.m. ; (4) on the working-
days from 17th December to 24th December (both included)
there shall be no time fixed ; (5) the working-days of the
weeks in which the mid-winter show and February Carnival
Week are held, on the Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
and Thursdays, 9.15 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 shops in each of the
said trades 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 4th day of October, 1926, all the shops in each of
the trades of (1) tobacconist and (2) hairdresser within the
City of Dunedin shall be closed accordingly.

The notice dated the 10th June, 1914, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th June, 1914, fixing the
closing-hours of hairdressers and hairdressers’ and tobacconists’ (combined) shops in the City of Dunedin, and the notice
dated the 31st October, 1923, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 8th November, 1923, fixing the closing-hours of tobacconists’ shops in the City of Dunedin are hereby
cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of
this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of September, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Reciprocal Recognition of British and Portuguese Tonnage Certificates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th September, 1926.

THE following despatch and its enclosure, received from
the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, are published for general information.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

New Zealand.
Dominions No. 309. Downing Street, 6th July, 1926.
SIR,—With reference to my despatch Dominions No. 296 of
the 30th June, I have the honour to transmit to Your
Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of
an extract from the London Gazette of the 29th of June,
containing the Portuguese Tonnage Order, 1926, dated the
28th of June.

I have, &c.,
L. S. AMERY.

Governor-General His Excellency
General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart.,
LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., &c.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of June,
1926.

Present :

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection (1) of section 84 of the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vic., c. 60), it is enacted that
whenever it appears to His Majesty the King in Council
that the tonnage regulations of the said Act have been
adopted by any foreign country and are in force there, His
Majesty in Council may order that the ships of that country
shall, without being remeasured in His Majesty’s Dominions,
be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates
of registry or other national papers, in same manner, to the
same extent, and for the same purposes, as the tonnage
denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is
deemed to be the tonnage of that ship :

And whereas it appears to His Majesty that the tonnage
regulations of the said Act have been adopted by the Government of Portugal and are now in force in that country :

Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the
advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered,
as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Portuguese Tonnage
   Order, 1926.

2. Portuguese ships, the certificates of registry or other
   national papers of which are dated on or after the 5th July,
   1924, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such
   certificates of registry or other national papers in the same
   manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the
   tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British
   ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 32.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 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 Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend William Wiseman Alexander.
The Reverend Thomas Aitken Haslam.
The Reverend Richard Augustus Forde, B.D.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Robert John Howie, B.A.

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Marcus Dixon.
Mr. Alfred Edward Rutherford.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice to Mariners No. 51 of 1926.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—FOVEAUX STRAIT.—
EASTERN ENTRANCE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st September, 1926.

Reported Sunken Rock unsuccessfully searched for.

CAPTAIN J. Bollons, of the Government steamer “Tutane-kai,” reports having on the 10th September, 1926,
exhaustively searched for the sunken rock reported by Wellington Notice to Mariners No. 40 of 11th May, 1925, to exist
at an estimated distance of about one mile southward of
Dog Island.

Captain Bollons reports the search was carried out under
conditions of sea which would have shown distinctly any
shoal carrying up to seven fathoms of water ; that the bottom
in the locality in which the rock was reported to exist is clear
and has a uniform depth of fourteen fathoms at low water,
and that the reported shoal does not exist.

Captain Bollons supplies the following information for the
use of vessels when nearing Dog Island :—

By keeping Whale Point (south-west point) open of Lookout
Point (of Bluff Hill) Dog Island will be passed at a distance of at least one mile in a depth of from thirteen to
fourteen fathoms of water.

Publications affected : Admiralty Charts Nos. 2553 and
1212 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, page 457
et seq. ; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1926, pages 334
and 374.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, WILLIAM GREER FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of
Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it
has been made to appear to me that the Rangaroa Tennis
Club (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations,
the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of
section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland this 18th day of September, 1926.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.