Mar. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 487

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.

GEORGE HENRY TOOLE, Esquire, of 158 State Street, in the City of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States of America, an Attorney and Councillor at Law of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has this day been appointed by The Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of March, 1938.

W. W. SAMSON, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendments, fixing the Closing-hours of Grocers’ Shops within the Borough of Eastbourne.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of grocers’ shops within the Borough of Eastbourne 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 borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I do hereby direct that on and after the 4th day of April, 1938, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 7.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9.30 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 Wednesday shall be 7.30 p.m., and the closing-hour on Friday shall be 9.30 p.m.

(2) On the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and on the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m.

The notice gazetted on the 13th day of May, 1937, fixing the closing-hours of grocers’ shops within the Borough of Eastbourne is hereby cancelled as from the date of coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of March, 1938.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.

The Traffic Regulations, 1936.—Appliance for Motor-vehicles approved.

IN terms of Regulation 10 of the Traffic Regulations, 1936, I, Robert Semple, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve of the appliance described in the Schedule hereto for use on or in connection with a motor-vehicle provided that and so long as the said appliance is identical in design, construction, make, and effect with the sample thereof deposited in the office of the Transport Department, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

“WIGGLER SIGNAL” Traffic Indicating Device submitted by Messrs. P. D. Trickett and Company, of Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1937.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/2/2.)

Declaring Areas to be Closely Populated Localities for the Purposes of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, Section 3.

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport does hereby declare the areas described in the Schedule hereto to be closely populated localities for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any road, street, or other place to which the public have access therein shall be subject to the maximum speed-limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE.

SITUATED within Vincent County—

All that area at Clyde adjoining and comprising the Palmerston–Queenstown via Becks Main Highway No. 124 commencing at a point 8 chains measured along the main highway in an easterly direction from its junction with Alexandra–Clyde Main Highway and terminating at a point 8 chains measured along the first-mentioned main highway in a north-westerly direction from its junction with Berwick Street, a distance of approximately 58 chains.

All that area at Clyde adjoining and comprising the Alexandra–Clyde Main Highway No. 152 commencing at its junction with the Palmerston–Queenstown via Becks Main Highway and terminating at a point 8 chains measured along the road in a south-easterly direction from the said junction.

All that area at Clyde adjoining and comprising Coquet Street commencing at its intersection with the Palmerston–Queenstown via Becks Main Highway and terminating at the eastern end of the bridge over the Clutha River, a distance of approximately 21 chains.

Situated within Peninsula County—

All that area adjoining and comprising the Dunedin–Portobello – Otakou Main Highway No. 157 commencing at the eastern boundary of Dunedin City, as now constituted, and terminating at a point one chain measured along the road in a southerly direction from its junction with the Portobello – Cape Saunders Road, a distance of approximately 10 miles.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of March, 1938.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/26, 9/15/133.)

Notification of Approval of Rules, Grey District Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th March, 1938.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 25 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I hereby notify that copies of the amendment to its rules made by the Grey District Acclimatization Society on the 15th day of November, 1937, have been forwarded to me, and were approved on the 9th day of March, 1938.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 46/3/5.)

Redefining Boundaries of the City of Invercargill, the County of Southland, and the Awarua and the Waihopai Ridings of the County of Southland.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1938.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 147 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, the boundaries of the City of Invercargill are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said city having been altered by Order in Council made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, dated the 7th day of July, 1937, and published in Gazette No. 45 of the 8th day of July, 1937, and also by Orders in Council made under that Act dated the 20th day of October, 1937, and published in Gazette No. 71 of the 21st day of October, 1937 :

And also, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section 147 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, the boundaries of the County of Southland affected by the said Orders in Council are hereby defined as set out in the Second Schedule hereto :

And, in further pursuance of the provisions of the said section 147 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, the boundaries of the Awarua and the Waihopai Ridings of the County of Southland affected by the said Orders in Council are hereby defined as set out in the Third Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF INVERCARGILL.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the Invercargill–Kingston Railway where the south bank of the Waihopai River inter-