JUNE 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1879

shop which is within two miles and a half of the exempted shop while medicines and surgical appliances are obtainable from the exempted shop :

And whereas the Minister of Labour is satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said combined district, and that all the occupiers of the said shops within the said combined district affected by section 35 (1) of the said Act have been afforded an equal right to share at a reasonable cost in the profits of the business carried on by the exempted shop :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of sections 32 and 35 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and in pursuance of section 15 of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, I, for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 17th day of June, 1928, all the chemists’ shops within the Combined District of Auckland, save and except the exempted shop, shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of June, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Labour.

[NOTE.—Pursuant to section 35 (4) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, a chemist in the combined district whose shop is more than two miles and a half from the exempted shop may supply medicines and surgical appliances that are urgently required at any time on Sundays outside the hours specified above: Provided that the shop is opened for such purpose only, and is closed immediately the sale is effected, and that the door of the shop is kept locked, except for the admission and exit of the customer.]

Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927, Section 4 (3).

FURTHER EXTENDING THE TIME IN WHICH CHILDREN’S HOMES MAY BE REGISTERED.

Wellington, 30th May, 1928.

PURSUANT to section 4, subsection (3), of the Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby extend the time within which application may be made by the controlling authority or the Manager of any Children’s Home for registration of that home under Part I of the said Act until the 31st day of August, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Warrant of Appointment of Wharf at Wellington under the Customs Act, 1913.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 1st June, 1928.

I, ROBERT ALEXANDER WRIGHT, for the Minister of Customs, in exercise of the powers vested in me for this purpose by the Customs Act, 1913, do by this Warrant alter the limits of the Breastwork Wharf at the Port of Wellington, as described in Minister’s Warrant of appointment dated 27th June, 1919, and gazetted on 3rd July, 1919, so that the said limits shall extend from the eastern side of the Taranaki Street Wharf to the eastern side of the King’s Wharf, thence first in an easterly direction for 284 ft., then in a north-easterly direction for 1,660 ft., and then in a northerly direction for 860 ft.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Customs.

Plumbers’ Registration Act, 1912.

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

THE following candidates, having passed the examination of the Plumbers’ Board of New Zealand, held on the 28th and 29th October, 1927, their names have been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of sections 8 and 17 (b) of the Act :—

Reg. No. Name.
1865 .. .. .. Stenner, John Ernest.
1866 .. .. .. Cleal, George Alexander.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Notice as to an Area in North Auckland Land District declared to be a Fire District.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 1st June, 1928.

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, and section 6 of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925, I do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the district, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district; and I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 31st day of March in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said district, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations or land-clearing operations, or any grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE.

MANUWAO PLANTATION FIRE DISTRICT.

North Auckland Land District.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Waitemata County, containing by admeasurement 1,130 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks IV and VIII, Waitemata Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-eastern corner of Allotment 323, Parish of Paremoremo; thence north-westerly along the eastern boundary of the said Allotment 323 to a public road; thence easterly by the south side of the said public road to a point on the production of the eastern side of a public road forming the western boundary of Allotment 319 of the said parish; thence northerly across a public road and by the eastern side of a public road to the south-western corner of Allotment 317 of the said parish; thence easterly by the southern boundary and northerly by the eastern boundary of the said Allotment 317 to the south-western corner of Allotment 318 of the said parish; thence easterly by the southern boundary of the said Allotment 318 to and across a public road; thence northerly by the eastern side of the said public road to the south-western corner of Allotment 254, Parish of Takapuna; thence easterly by the southern boundaries of Allotments 254 and 252 of the said parish to and across a public road; thence northerly by the eastern side of the said public road to the south-western corner of Allotment 258 of the said parish; thence easterly by the southern boundary of the said Allotment 258 to a public road; thence southerly by the western side of the said public road to a point on the production of the western boundary of Allotment S.W. 196 of the said parish; then southerly across the said public road and by the western boundary of the said Allotment S.W. 196 to the south-western corner; thence easterly by the southern boundaries of the said Allotment S.W. 196 and of Allotment N.E. 196 of the said parish to its south-eastern corner; thence southerly by the western boundary of Allotment 184 of the said parish to the north-eastern corner of Allotment M. 195 of the said parish; thence westerly by the northern boundary of the said Allotment M. 195 to and across a public road; thence southerly by the western side of the said public road to the north-eastern corner of Allotment M. 197 of the said parish; thence westerly by the northern boundary of the said Allotment M. 197 and southerly by the western boundary of the said Allotment M. 197 to its south-western corner; thence westerly by the northern boundary and southerly by the western boundary of the Allotment E. 197 of the said parish to a public road; thence westerly by the northern side of the said public road to the south-eastern corner of Allotment M. 199 of the said parish; thence northerly by the eastern boundary and westerly by the northern boundaries of the said Allotment M. 199 and of Allotment S.W. 199 of the said parish to the south-eastern corner of Allotment 172, Parish of Paremoremo; thence northerly by the eastern boundary of the said Allotment 172 to a public road; thence easterly by the southern side of the said public road to a point on the production of the eastern boundary of Allotment 171 of the said parish; thence northerly across the said public road and by the eastern boundaries of the said Allotment 171 and of Allotments 170 of the said parish to a public road; thence easterly by the southern side of the said public road to a point on the production of the eastern boundary of Allotment 323 of the said parish; thence northerly across the said public road to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated in Plan 17/14, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

O. HAWKEN,
Commissioner of State Forests.