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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

of the following year, both days inclusive, and on the working-days (other than the day observed as the statutory closing-day) in the period from the Monday immediately preceding Easter to Easter Monday, both days inclusive, there shall be no fixed closing-hour :

The notice dated the 16th December, 1931, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 17th December, 1931, fixing the closing-hours of (1) men’s hairdressers’ and (2) tobacconists’ shops in the Combined District of Wellington shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

And whereas the said requisition is signed by not less than two-thirds of the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops within the said combined district, notice is hereby given that, pursuant to section 25 of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, all other shops within the said combined district in which smoking requisites are sold shall be closed at the same hours as are set out herein for tobacconists’ shops.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of November, 1932.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Labour.

Varying Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of Fruiterers’ Shops within the Borough of Te Aroha.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the fruiterers’ shops within the Borough of Te Aroha, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the notice dated the 6th May, 1929, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 9th May, 1929, fixing the closing-hours of fruiterers’ shops within the Borough of Te Aroha, be varied as follows: In the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and in the evening of the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day there shall be no fixed closing-hour:

And whereas I, Adam Hamilton, Minister of Labour, am 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 section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that the said notice shall be and is hereby varied accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of November, 1932.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Labour.

Despatch: Nobel Peace Prize, 1933.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th October, 1932.

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

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Downing Street,
9th September, 1932.

NEW ZEALAND.
Circular Despatch C. No. 248.

MY LORD,—With reference to my Despatch Circular C. No. 345, of the 16th September, 1931, 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 1933.

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

I have, &c.,

J. H. THOMAS.

Governor-General, His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Bledisloe, G.C.M.G., K.B.E., &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed 10th December, 1933, 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 Commission 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, § 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 § 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.)

Taranaki Education Board.—Extraordinary Election.

I, HERBERT WALTER INSULL, Returning Officer for the election of one member of the South Ward of the Education Board of the District of Taranaki, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on 11th October, 1932, to be as follows:—

Candidates—
Barclay, J. C. .. .. .. 72 votes.
Benton, Mrs. C. .. .. .. 24 votes.
Ricketts, W. .. .. .. 55 votes.
Sheat, W. A. .. .. .. 24 votes.

Total number of valid votes, 175.
Number of votes rejected as informal, 3.

I therefore declare John Crabb Barclay as duly elected a member representing the South Ward as from this date.

H. W. INSULL, Returning Officer.
New Plymouth, 26th October, 1932.

Notice to Mariners No. 46 of 1932.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th October, 1932.

TABLES FOR AZIMUTHS, GREAT CIRCLE SAILING, AND REDUCTION TO THE MERIDIAN.

Vol. I: Errata.

Pages 13 to 15, Table 16: Add 12 hours to given times.
Page 26: Opposite 47° and under 19m, read “2·99” for “3·99.”
Page 28: After Lat. 51 read “52” for “42.”
Page 39: Opposite 40° and under 54m, read “1·22” for “·22.” Opposite 43° and under 55m, read “1·35” for “·35.” Opposite 45° and under 53m, read “1·46” for “·46.”
Page 52: Opposite 49° and under 33m, read “·459” for “·259.”
Page 53: Opposite 23° and under 44m, read “·449” for “·459.”
Page 220: Opposite a Andromeda and under “By Excelsior Tables,” read “46m” for “24m.”
Page 270: After alt. 23, read “24” for “14.”
Page 294: After hour angle 3h 10m, read “3h” for “2h.”
Page 318, third line from bottom: Read “name” for “anne.”
Page 329, line 21: Read “9° 15′ N.” for “9° 45′ N.”
Page 333, eighth line from bottom: Read “20°” for “21°.”
Page 336, sixteenth line from bottom: Read “3·332” for “·332.”
Page 341, fifteenth line from bottom: Read “76 to 78” for “41 to 43.”
Page 346: Formula for distance: Read “Sin ½ P” for “Sin P.”
Page 373, line 32: Read “directional” for “directiinal.”
Page 380, line 14: Read “N. 78½° E.” for “N. 78½° W.”
Page 387: Delete whole page, and substitute attached page.
Page 388, line 18: Read “coincide” for “coinside.”
Page 389, sixth and sixteenth lines from bottom: Read “444” for “442.”
Page 397, eighth line from bottom: Read “419, 420” for “319, 320.”
Page 408: Add after heading, “(Longitude determination by Blackburne’s Hour-Angle Tables).”
Page 410: Add after heading, “(From Blackburne’s Excelsior Ex-Meridian Tables).”
Page 411, line 30: Read “D.R. Long (1)” for “D.R. Long (2).”
Page 420, line 23: Read “110° 14′” for “101° 14′.”