Nov. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3241

enabling me in this behalf, do hereby present the said plan for registration by you against the property affected by it.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land used as a road: 30·1 perches.
Being portion of Section 2.
Situated in Block II, Tiffin Survey District. (S.O. 2117.)
In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 72956, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, a copy of which plan is hereunto annexed and thereon coloured red.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 1st day of November, 1928.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 41/677.)

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 30th October, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major P. H. Morey, the Southland Regiment.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Defence.

Meetings of Southland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st November, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Southland Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 10 o’clock a.m., on Thursday, the 17th January, 21st February, 21st March, 18th April, 16th May, 20th June, 18th July, 15th August, 19th September, 17th October, 21st November, and 12th December, during the year 1929.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE, PLUMBERS BOARD EXAMINATION, 8TH AND 9TH JUNE, 1928.

THE following candidate, having passed the examination of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand, held on the 8th and 9th June, 1928, his name has been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand, in pursuance of sections 9 and 17 (b) of the Act :—

Reg. No. Name.
1903 Fullerton, S. T.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Health.

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

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour from the occupiers of florists’ shops within the Combined District of Auckland, comprising the City of Auckland, the Boroughs of Birkenhead, Devonport, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Newmarket, Northcote, Onehunga, and Takapuna, and the Town Districts of Ellerslie, Glen Eden, New Lynn, and Henderson, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22 :

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 :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I, for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 26th day of November, 1928, all the said shops within the said combined district shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., on Fridays at 9.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 5 p.m., with the following exception—on the working-day immediately preceding any day generally observed as a whole holiday, the closing-hour shall be 9.30 p.m.

The notice dated the 3rd February, 1909, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th February, 1909, fixing closing-hours of all shops in the Avondale Road District shall be and is hereby cancelled in so far as it relates to the shops affected by this notice, as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of November, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Labour.

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st November, 1928.

THE following result of the election of a trustee of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

Mangawara Drainage District, County of Waikato—
Northern Subdivision—
Arthur Allan Civil.

(I.A. 19/78/23.)

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st November, 1928.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

Woodlands Drainage District, County of Waikato—
Gordonton Subdivision—
Albert Wells Chapman.
Frederick William Seifert.
James Holst.
Wilfred John Bridgman.

Motumaoaho Subdivision—
Joseph Milton.
George Were.
Richard Belsey.

(I.A. 19/78/28.)

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st November, 1928.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

Te Rapa Drainage District, County of Waipa—
Horotiu Subdivision—
James Courtney.
John Alexander Washer.

Rotokauri Subdivision—
John Samuel Elliott.

Whatawhata Subdivision—
George Clarke.

Central Subdivision—
James McLean Malcolm.

(I.A. 19/78/38.)

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st November, 1928.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

Eureka Drainage District, County of Waikato—
Newstead Subdivision—
Robert Orr Duncan.
Thomas Thompson.

Tauwhare Subdivision—
Paul Ringer.

(I.A. 19/78/35.)