Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2781

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th December, 1938.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

HAWKE’S BAY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers of that part of the Hawke’s Bay Electric-power District comprised in the constituent districts of the Borough of Hastings and the Town District of Havelock North taken on the 23rd day of November, 1938, on the proposal of the Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board to borrow £20,000 for the purpose following, videlicet :—

Supplying and distributing electric energy to and for the benefit of that part of the Hawke’s Bay Electric-power District comprised in the constituent districts of the Borough of Hastings and the Town District of Havelock North to establish, acquire, and carry out within such constituent districts as aforesaid the following works and undertakings, namely:—The erection of generating works, the construction of transmission and distributing lines and sub-stations, the purchase and erection of all necessary equipment, motors, works, plants, machinery, apparatus, motor-vehicles and conveyances, materials, lands, rights and buildings, office furnishings, fittings, book-keeping machines and requisites, and to provide for the cost of survey and other preliminary works and expenses of administration and to generally exercise its rights and powers as may be deemed expedient by the Board under the authority of The Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and its amendments.

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was . . 160
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was . . 43
The number of informal votes was . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

And I hereby declare that the said proposal was carried.

Dated this 24th day of November, 1938.

W. HARVEY,
Chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendments.—
Fixing the Closing-hours of Grocers’ Shops within the
Borough of Manurewa.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of grocers’ shops within the Borough of Manurewa pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22 ;

And whereas I 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, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 2nd day of January, 1939, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 5.15 p.m. and on Fridays at 8 p.m.

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

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931, the Minister of Transport does hereby approve, until further notice, of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Timaru Borough Council . . Neil Colville, of Timaru, Traffic Inspector.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1938.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Declaring an Area to be a Closely Populated Locality 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 area described in the Schedule hereto to be a closely populated locality 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 consisting of the Palmerston-Queenstown via Becks Main Highway No. 124, commencing at the south-eastern boundary of Cromwell Borough as now constituted and terminating at a point 48 chains measured along the said main highway in a southerly direction from the said boundary.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1938.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/26.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Borough of Lower Hutt for Housing Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, and section thirty-two of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of houses—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 Lower Hutt 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 area of the piece of land required to be taken: 2 roods.

Being Lot 1, D.P. 8276, being portion of Section 10, Hall-Jones Settlement.

Situated in Block XIV, Belmont Survey District (Borough of Lower Hutt.). (S.O. 20222.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 101674, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1938.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 24/1258/7.)

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Army Department,
Wellington, 6th December, 1938.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Geraldine Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Geraldine.

Date of acceptance: 24th November, 1938.

P. JONES, Minister of Defence.