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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1937.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :-

Name. District.
James Orr .. .. .. Hikurangi.
Harry Leonard Norris .. .. Mangaroa.
Arthur Edward Amyes .. .. Middlemarch.
George Henry Bush .. .. Te Karaka.
Thomas Stinson .. .. Kaitaia.
Jack Douglas Snow .. .. Tokaanu.
Gerald Ellis Mortimer .. .. Thames.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1937.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at the place set opposite his name, viz. :-

Name. Place.
Francis Wilfred Archer .. .. Port Waikato.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioners,
Wellington, 17th November, 1937.

THE Public Service Commissioners have made the following appointment in the Public Service :-

Henry Turner, Esquire,

to be Army Secretary for the purposes of the Army Board Act, 1937, as from the 6th day of November, 1937.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioners,
Wellington, 17th November, 1937.

THE Public Service Commissioners have made the following appointments in the Public Service :-

Michael Patrick Anderson,

to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Motueka, for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, as from the 3rd day of November, 1937.

Donald Carlyle Pedersen,

to be a Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Wellington, for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 5th day of November, 1937.

James Orr,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Hikurangi, as from the 16th day of November, 1937.

George Henry Bush,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Karaka, as from the 12th day of November, 1937.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Registered Medical Practitioner prohibited from issuing Prescriptions for dispensing Dangerous Drugs.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, 1928, I, Peter Fraser, Minister of Health, on the recommendation of the Medical Council, hereby prohibit Ralph Jack Richard Mecredy, registered medical practitioner, from issuing prescriptions for the dispensing of dangerous drugs.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 18th day of November, 1937.

P. FRASER, Minister of Health.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 23rd November, 1937.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Taumarunui Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

TAUMARUNUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Taumarunui Borough Council, taken on the 17th day of November, 1937, on the proposal of the Taumarunui Borough Council to borrow the sum of £14,000 for electricity purposes.

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 141
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 8

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 18th day of November, 1937.

C. A. BOLES, Mayor.

Revocation of Appointment of Wharf and Examining Place at the Port of Wairau.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1937.

I, WALTER NASH, Minister of Customs, in exercise of the powers vested in me for this purpose by the Customs Act, 1913, do hereby revoke the appointment of the wharf named in the First Schedule hereto as a wharf for the lading and unlading of goods within the Port of Wairau, and do likewise revoke the appointment of the examining place named in the Second Schedule hereto as a place for the examination of goods subject to the control of the Customs.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

REVOCATION OF APPOINTMENT OF WHARF.

Name of Port. Name of Wharf.
Wairau .. Wharf known as Clouston’s at Blenheim.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

REVOCATION OF APPOINTMENT OF EXAMINING PLACE.

Name of Port. Situation. Marks, Numbers, or Description.
Wairau .. Clouston’s Wharf.. Wharf shed marked “B.”

W. NASH, Minister of Customs.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22.—Fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers’ Shops within the Combined District of Nelson.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of hairdressers’ shops within the Combined District of Nelson, comprising the City of Nelson and the Town District of Tahunanui, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22 :

And whereas, I, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, 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 combined district :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I do hereby direct that on and after the 13th day of December, 1937, all the said shops within the said combined district shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows :—
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions—
(1) On the working-day first preceding Christmas Day and on the working-day first preceding New Year’s Day there shall be no fixed closing-hour; (2) On the working-day first preceding Good Friday the closing hour shall be 9 p.m.; (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 shall be 6 p.m., and the closing-hour on Friday shall be 9 p.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of November, 1937.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.