Mar 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 569

corner of Allotment 92 E.R., Ararimu Parish; thence on the north generally by Allotments N.W. 33, S.E. 33, N.W. 34, and S.E. 34, Ararimu Parish aforesaid, by the abutment of a public road, by part Section 5H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement, by another part Section 5H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement aforesaid, by a public road forming the eastern and southern boundaries of Section 17H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement aforesaid, to its intersection with a public road intersecting Allotment 129, Ararimu Parish aforesaid; thence on the east generally by the last-mentioned road, and by and across the continuation of that road to the south-western corner of Section 34H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement aforesaid; thence by Section 34H aforesaid, by part Allotment 49, Ararimu Parish aforesaid (State Forest Reserve, by Gazette, 1928, page 2751), by a public road forming the northern and western boundaries of Allotments N. 62, Ararimu Parish aforesaid, and Section 68H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement aforesaid, and by the continuation of that road to Section 1, Block I, Waitemata Survey District; thence by that section to Ararimu Valley Road, and by that road through Allotments 41, 40, 53, 46, and 45, Paremoremo Parish, to and across Old North Road to the southernmost corner of the said Section 45; thence generally westerly and northerly along the northern and eastern boundaries of the Kaipara River District as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1928, page 3518, to the north-western corner of the Mangakura Block; thence along the southern boundary of Te Makiri Block, and by the land shown on D.P. 11089, being portion of Te Makiri and Mangakura Blocks, by the Old North Road aforesaid, by the crossing of that road, by Section 1, Block XIV, Kaipara Survey District, by Section 2, Block XV, Kaipara Survey District aforesaid, by part Section 2, Rautawhiri Block, shown on D.P. 3123A, and by Allotments 91 E.R. and 92 E.R., Ararimu Parish aforesaid, to the point of commencement.

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Allotment 61, Paremoremo Parish; thence by parts Allotments 61 and 64, Paremoremo Parish aforesaid (State Forest Reserve by Gazette, 1930, page 737), by a public road intersecting Allotments 80 and 88, Paremoremo Parish aforesaid, by part Allotment 48, Paremoremo Parish aforesaid (State Forest Reserve by Gazette, 1930, page 737), by a public road intersecting Allotment 160 and forming the northern boundary of Allotment 414, Paremoremo Parish aforesaid, to its intersection with Old North Road; thence by Old North Road, Taupaki – Brigham’s Creek Road, Nixon’s Road, Redkill Road, by the road forming the western boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block XIII, Waitemata Survey District, and Allotment 187, Waipareira Parish, to McEntee’s Road; thence by and across that road to the north-western corner of Allotment 134, Waipareira Parish aforesaid; thence by Allotment 134 aforesaid to its south-western corner; thence by a right line to the north-western corner of Allotment 10, Waipareira Parish aforesaid; thence by that allotment and part of Allotment 9 of the same parish to the Swanson – West Coast Road; thence on the south generally by that road in a south-westerly and north-westerly direction to its intersection with the road forming the northern boundary of Allotment 88, Waitakerei Parish; thence on the west generally by the last-mentioned road, by the abutment of that road, by Lots 2 and 1 on D.P. 10692, by part Allotment 9 and part Allotment 5, Waitakerei Parish aforesaid, by the crossing of a public road, again by part Allotment 5 aforesaid, by a public road forming the eastern boundaries of Allotment 4, Parts 9, 10, and 11, Waitakerei Parish aforesaid, by the abutment of that road, by Lot 21 on D.P. 280, being a subdivision of Taupaki Block, by Muriwai Valley Road, by Lot 7 on D.P. 280 aforesaid, by the crossing of a public road, by Lots 38, 6, and 1 on D.P. 280 aforesaid, by Lot 15 on D.P. 11865, being a subdivision of Section VIII, Kahukuri Block, by the abutment of Hinau Road, by Hinau Road, by Mataea Road to and across School Road, again by Mataea Road, by a plantation reserve forming the north-western boundaries of Lots 100, 99, and 98 on D.P. 9766, being a subdivision of Section 1, Kahukuri Block, and the Muriwai School site to Hamilton’s Road, by that road to and across the Waimauku – West Coast Road, and again by Hamilton’s Road, by Lot 3 on D.P. 22813, being a subdivision of Oneonenui Block, to and across Fletcher’s Road, by that road, by Lot 2 on D.P. 22813 aforesaid, by part Puketapu Block (containing 2,427 acres 1 rood 6 perches) to the south-western corner of the Kaipara River District, as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1928, page 3518; thence along the southern boundary of the said Kaipara River District to the north-western corner of Allotment 61, Paremoremo Parish, the place of commencement.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/2/30.)

Notifying Land in the Gisborne Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th February, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Apanui Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from 3rd December, 1930.

SCHEDULE.

LAND IN THE GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT SUBJECT TO THE LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACT, 1925.

Gisborne Land District.—Apanui Settlement.

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement 466 acres 3 roods 6 perches, more or less, being Allotments 6, 7, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 35, and 37, Waioeka Parish, and being the land comprised in Certificates of Title, Vol. 67, folio 197, Vol. 70, folio 12, and Vol. 78, folio 188, Gisborne Registry.

Also all that area, situated in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Allotment 36 of the Parish of Waioeka.

As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/477, deposited under No. 2472 in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/477.)

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops within the Combined District of Invercargill.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Combined District of Invercargill, comprising the City of Invercargill and the Borough of South Invercargill, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the said combined district, save and except the shop (hereinafter referred to as “the exempted shop”) established at 88 Esk Street, within the City of Invercargill, for the purpose only of the sale of medicines and surgical appliances that are urgently required, be closed as set out below, and that subsection (4) of section 35 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, should not apply to any shop within two miles and a half of the exempted shop while medicines and surgical appliances are obtainable from the exempted shop—On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions: (1) In the evening of the working-day immediately preceding each of the following days—viz., Boxing Day, Good Friday, the birthday of the reigning Sovereign, and any day which, pursuant to a Proclamation by the Governor-General or declaration by the Government, or on the request of the Mayor or Chairman of the local authority is generally observed as a public holiday or half-holiday, the closing-hour shall be 9 p.m.; (2) 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 there shall be no fixed closing-hour; (3) 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 Wednesday for any such shop shall be 5.30 p.m., and the closing-hour on Friday for any such shop shall be 9 p.m.:

And whereas I am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represents 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, I, Sydney George Smith, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 30th day of March, 1931, all the chemists’ shops within the Combined District of Invercargill, save and except the exempted shop, shall be closed accordingly.

The notice dated the 30th April, 1919, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 1st May, 1919, fixing the closing-hours of chemists’ shops within the Borough of Inver-