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Despatch, Nobel Peace Prize, 1929.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th November, 1928.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general
information.

M. POMARE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

NEW ZEALAND.
Dominions No. 482.

Downing Street, 26th September, 1928.
SIR,—With reference to Lord Lovat's despatch, Dominions
No. 514 of the 20th September, 1927, I have the honour to
transmit for the information of His Majesty's Government in
New Zealand, the accompanying copies of a circular issued
by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929.

I should be glad if the conditions of the prize may be
made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified
to nominate candidates.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,

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.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

All proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which
is to be distributed December 10th, 1929, must, in order to
be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified:
(a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of
the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed
at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as
well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague;
(d) members of the Council of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of the
Institute of International Law; (f) university professors of
political science and of law, of history and of philosophy;
and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, par. 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may
therein be referred to.

According to par. 3, every written work, to qualify for a
prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.

(I.A. 8/37.)

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for the Southern Cross Art Union, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the organization and person whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are 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 organization or person shall be issued and that no postal packet addressed to the said organization or person (either by its or his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

The Southern Cross Art Union, Box 3908 T.T., G.P.O., Sydney; or 114 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.
Eric Lloyd Jones, Hon. Secretary Southern Cross Art Union, Box 3908 T.T., G.P.O., Sydney; or 114 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of November, 1928.

F. H. D. BELL, for Postmaster-General.

[No. 86

Confirmation of Part of Scheme of Consolidation.

In the matter of section 6 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme of consolidation, in part, dated the 19th day of October, 1928, dealing with the Maraekura 1 and 2 and other blocks, as set out in the said scheme, having been prepared by the Native Land Court in accordance with the above-mentioned Act, and submitted under the seal of the said Court to the Native Minister for his approval, and the Native Minister, being satisfied that the portion of the scheme so submitted is just and equitable, and is in the public interest, doth hereby confirm the portion of the said scheme of consolidation which was so submitted on the 19th day of October, 1928.

Dated this 10th day of November, 1928.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of Tobacconists' Shops within the Borough of Westport.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour from the occupiers of tobacconists' shops within the Borough of Westport, 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 borough:

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 10th day of December, 1928, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., and on Saturdays at 10 p.m., with the following exception—Should the occupier of any shop affected by this notice observe, pursuant to section 14 (2) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, Saturday as the statutory closing-day, then and in such case the closing-hour on Thursday shall be 6 p.m. and the closing-hour on Friday shall be 10 p.m.

The notice dated the 18th September, 1912, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th September, 1912, fixing closing-hours of tobacconists' shops in the Borough of Westport shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Labour.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendment, prohibiting the Sale within the Borough of Westport of certain Goods comprised in the Trade of a Tobacconist.

WHEREAS a petition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Westport, has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour, desiring that the sale of certain goods comprised in the trade of a tobacconist—namely, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, cigarette papers and holders, tobacco-pouches, smoking-pipes, walking-sticks, and smokers’ requisites—be prohibited during such time as the said shops are required to be closed in pursuance of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22:

And whereas the Minister of Labour is satisfied that the sale of the said goods is comprised in the said trade within the said borough, and that the signatures to such petition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 33 of the said Act, I, for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 10th day of December, 1928, the sale of the said goods within the said borough shall be and is hereby prohibited as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays after the hour of 6 p.m., on Wednesdays after the hour of 8 p.m., and on Fridays and Saturdays after the hour of 10 p.m.

The notice dated the 21st June, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 29th June, 1922, prohibiting the sale in the Borough of Westport of certain goods comprised in the trade of a tobacconist shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Labour.