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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Notice respecting Proposed Constitution of the Drainage District
of Netherton, County of Hauraki Plains.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th February, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to
His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land
Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the
Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under
the said Act, by name the Netherton Drainage District. All
persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written
objections to or petitions against the proposed constitution of
the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within
one month from the first publication of this notice, such
objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of
Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE CONSTITUTED AS NETHERTON DRAINAGE
DISTRICT.

ALL that land in the Auckland Land District bounded as
follows: Commencing at a point on the left bank of the
Waihou River in line with the northern boundary of Lot 3
on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland
under No. 8682; thence by the left bank of the Waihou
River to its junction with the left bank of the Ngahina Canal;
thence by the left bank of the said canal and again by the
left bank of the Waihou River to its intersection by the
southern boundary of Waihou West No. 4B East Block;
thence by the generally southern boundary of that block
and Waihou West No. 4B West Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks,
the western boundaries of Waihou West No. 4B West
No. 2 4D, Section 1, 4E North No. 1 and 4A Blocks to
the northernmost corner of Waihou West No. 4A Block;
thence by the southern boundary of Section 7, Block XV,
Waihou Survey District, and the southern and south-
western boundaries of Section 3, Block XV aforesaid;
thence in a northerly direction following a right line
through Section 1, Block XV, Waihou Survey District, to a
point on the northern boundary of the said section twenty
chains distant from the north-western corner of Section 1
aforesaid; thence across a road and in an easterly direction
along the southern boundary of Section 33, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, to the south-eastern corner of Section 33
aforesaid; thence in a north-westerly direction along the
north-eastern boundary of Section 33, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, to a point thirty-five chains distant from the
south-eastern corner of that section; thence in a north-
easterly direction by a right line making an angle of 90 degrees
with the eastern boundary of Section 33, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, for a distance of eight chains; thence in a
north-westerly direction by a right line parallel to the eastern
boundary of Section 24, Block XI, Waihou Survey District,
for a distance of thirty chains; thence in a south-westerly
direction by a right line making an angle of 90 degrees with
the western boundary of Section 24, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, for a distance of eight chains to the south-
western boundary of Section 24, Block XI, Waihou Survey
District; thence along the south-western boundary of Section
24 aforesaid to the north-western corner of that section;
thence in a south-westerly direction following the road in the
north-western boundary of Section 31, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, to a point opposite the south-western bound-
ary of Section 27, Block XI, Waihou Survey District; thence
in a north-westerly direction across a road and following the
south-western boundary of Section 27, Block XI, Waihou
Survey District, to a point midway along that boundary;
thence in a north-easterly direction by a right line to a point
midway along the north-eastern boundary of Section 26,
Block XI, Waihou Survey District; thence in a north-westerly
direction following the north-eastern boundary of Section 26,
Block XI, Waihou Survey District, to the north-eastern
corner of that section; thence in a north-easterly direction
along the north-western boundary of Section 25, Block XI,
Waihou Survey District, to the north-eastern corner of that
section; thence in a westerly direction along the southern
boundaries of Sections 59, E 10, and W 10, Block XI,
Waihou Survey District, to the south-western corner of
the said Section W10; thence in a northerly direction along
the western boundary of Section W10 aforesaid, across
a road, and by the western boundaries of west portion of
Lot 5, Tahanui Block, and the north-western boundary of
Lot 4 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at
Auckland under No. 5103 to a point in line with the
south-western boundary of Lot 2 on the aforesaid plan;
thence across a road and by the south-western boundary of
Lot 2 aforesaid; thence by the northern boundary of that
lot to its intersection by the western boundary of Te Arawha-
kapekapeka No. 1 Block; thence by the western boundaries
of Te Arawhakapekapeka Nos. 1 and 2A Blocks, the northern
boundary of Te Arawhakapekapeka 2A Block, to its inter-
section by the western boundary of Lot 3 on a plan deposited
as aforesaid under No. 8682; thence by the western and
northern boundaries of that lot, across a public road, and
by the production of the northern boundary of Lot 3 aforesaid
to the point of commencement.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/10/62.)

Member of Court of Arbitration appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 29th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Sydney Evelyn Wright,

of Auckland, to be acting nominated member of the Court
of Arbitration, on the recommendation of industrial unions
of employers under sections 65 and 71 of the Industrial Con-
ciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, for the residue of the
term of Bertie Laurence Hammond, resigned. The appoint-
ment is dated the 29th February, 1928.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amend-
ment, fixing the Closing-hours of Florists’ Shops within the
Combined District of Dunedin.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority
of the occupiers of all the florists’ shops within the
combined district of Dunedin, comprising the City of Dunedin
and the boroughs of St. Kilda, Port Chalmers, West Harbour,
and Green Island, has been forwarded to me, desiring that
all such shops within the said combined district be closed
in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., on Fridays
at 9 p.m., and on Saturdays at 5 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 combined 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 19th day of March, 1928, all the florists’ shops within the
combined district of Dunedin shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of February, 1928.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Retention of Title of “Honourable.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th March, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that His Majesty the King has been
pleased to approve of the retention of the title of
“Honourable” by Sir Thomas Walter Stringer, Knight,
lately a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Justices of the Peace authorized to exercise Jurisdiction in
Children’s Courts.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to authorize the Justices of the Peace named in the
first column of the Schedule hereto to exercise jurisdiction
in the Children’s Courts established at the places named
in the second column of the Schedule opposite the name of
each such Justice of the Peace respectively.

SCHEDULE.

First Column. Second Column.
William Mandeno Jackson, Esquire .. .. Auckland.
Herbert Theodore Halliwell, Esquire .. .. Auckland.
Samuel Ewart Hulbert, Esquire .. Motueka.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES, PLUMBERS BOARD EXAMINATION,
28TH AND 29TH OCTOBER, 1927.

THE following is a list of plumbers to whom certificates
of having passed the examination of the Plumbers
Board of New Zealand will be granted in pursuance of section 17
of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912, and whose names have
been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in
pursuance of section 8 of the Act:—

Reg. No. Name. Reg. No. Name
1857. Davies, E. G. 1858. Mawkes, H. G.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.