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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th March, 1930.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Alexander Bell

to be District Public Trustee at Greymouth as from the 24th day of March, 1930.

Thomas Pound

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Otago Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 10th day of March, 1930.

Nicholas Eric Wilson

to be Assistant Land Registrar for the District of Southland, as provided by and subject to section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and Deputy Registrar of Deeds for the District of Southland, as provided by section 6 of the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, as from the 12th day of March, 1930.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointment of Deputy District Public Trustee.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section three of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, I, the Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, have appointed Algar Herbert Ihle, of the Public Trust Office, Gisborne, to be Deputy of the District Public Trustee, Gisborne, during the absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters, and all previous appointments in this behalf are hereby revoked.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1930.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 14th March, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 20th April, 1939, will be closed from the 1st to the 20th April, 1930 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

A. T. NGATA, for Minister of Finance.

Fixing Date on which certain Returns under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, are to be furnished to the Taihape Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th March, 1930.

PURSUANT to section 28 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, it is hereby notified that the returns, showing the total gross amount of the premiums received by or due to fire-insurance companies during the year ended 31st December, 1929, in respect of insurances held by such companies within the Taihape Fire District, shall be transmitted to the Taihape Fire Board in the manner prescribed by the said section on or before the 31st day of March, 1930.

W. A. VEITCH,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 11/1.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Gibson Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Hakatarama, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P.
Being
0 3 20 Part R.S. 30808.
1 0 6 Part R.S. 30808.

Situated in Block VI, Gibson Survey District (Canterbury R.D.).

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 75840, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 13th day of March, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 67/105.)

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of (1) Boot and Shoe Dealers’, (2) Cycle Dealers’, (3) Drapers’, (4) Fancy-goods Dealers’, (5) Grocers’, (6) Hardware Dealers’, and (7) Stationers’ Shops within the Borough of Paeroa.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of shops in each of the trades of (1) boot and shoe dealer, (2) cycle dealer, (3) draper, (4) fancy-goods dealer, (5) grocer, (6) hardware dealer, (7) stationer, within the Borough of Paeroa, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22:

And whereas I, William Andrew Veitch, 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 borough:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I do hereby direct that on and after the 31st day of March, 1930, all the shops in each of the said trades within the said borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) 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 5.30 p.m., and the closing-hour on Friday shall be 9 p.m.; (2) when Anniversary Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day, or the King’s Birthday falls on the day upon which the late night is usually observed, then the closing-hour on the evening of the working-day last preceding such day shall be 9 p.m.; (3) on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1930.

W. A. VEITCH, Minister of Labour.

Promotion in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office;
Wellington, 13th March, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the following promotion in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division):—

Lieutenant Frederick Fraser, to Acting Lieutenant-Commander, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 6th March, 1930.

A. J. STALLWORTHY,
For Minister of Defence.

Officiating Ministers for 1930.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1930.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Ratana Church.

Apostle Wiremu Parata Karehana.

ERRATUM.—In Notice No. 1, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 30th January, 1930, page 219, under Baptists, for “The Reverend John Hiddleston” read “The Reverend John Hiddlestone.”

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.