Dec. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2831

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 19th December, 1938.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Matamata County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

MATAMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Tokoroa Memorial Hall Special-rating Area of the County of Matamata, taken on the 2nd day of December, 1938, on the proposal of the Matamata County Council to borrow the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of purchasing the Tokoroa Memorial Hall :-

Votes.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was . . 52 The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 4

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 5th day of December, 1938.

Jas. W. Anderson,
Chairman of the County of Matamata.

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, acting for the 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 20th day of December, 1938.

H. T. Armstrong,
For the Minister of Labour.

The above notice is in substitution for that fixing the closing-hours of grocers' shops within the Borough of Manurewa published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 92, 15th December, 1938, page 2781.

Revoking Portion of a Warrant Declaring Areas to be Closely Populated Localities and 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, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Minister of Transport does hereby revoke the Warrant dated the eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, and which is published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1 of the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, to the extent which it declares a certain area within Uawa County to be a closely populated locality, and 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 Uawa County—

All that area at Tolaga Bay Township consisting of the Gisborne-Opotiki via the Coast Main Highway No. 26, commencing at a point 2 chains measured in a northerly direction along the said main highway from its junction with Banks Street and terminating at a point 6 chains measured in a south-easterly direction along the said main highway from its junction with Tolaga-Tauwhareparae Main Highway, a distance of approximately 53 chains.

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

R. Semple, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/223.)

Revoking a Warrant and substituting therefor a Warrant Declaring the Carriage of Passengers by Motor-vehicle to constitute a Passenger-service in certain Cases.

PURSUANT to section 16 of the Transport Licensing Amendment Act, 1936, I, Robert Semple, Minister of Transport, do hereby revoke the Warrant, issued in terms of the said section, dated the 18th day of November, 1936, and published in the Gazette of the nineteenth day of the same month at page 2265, and do hereby declare that during any time while a ship, in use for the time being chiefly for the transport of tourists on a cruising tour, is in the Auckland Harbour any service by a motor-vehicle for the carriage for hire or reward of passengers from any place within the Auckland Transport District to any place outside a radius of seventy-five miles from the Chief Post Office at Auckland, shall be deemed for the purposes of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, to be a passenger-service within the meaning of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of December, 1938.

R. Semple, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 19/77.)

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Lyttelton.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 15th December, 1938.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 147 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, the boundaries of the Borough of Lyttelton are hereby defined as set out in the Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by Order in Council made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, dated the 1st day of September, 1938, and published in Gazette No. 66 of the 8th day of September, 1938.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF THE BOROUGH OF LYTTELTON.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point being the north-west corner of Rural Section 23561, thence easterly along the southern side of the old closed road which forms the northern boundary of the said Section 23561 and intersects Rural Sections 1891, 24815, and R.3816 to Reserve 101, thence along the north-west and north-east boundaries of that reserve, and continuing easterly along the northern boundary of Rural Section 34917 through geodetical station, Mt. Pleasant, and east on a bearing of 86° 11' to the southern side of the old closed road intersecting Rural Sections 24077 and 24814, thence along that said closed road following along the eastern side of Rural Section 500, and intersecting Rural Sections 27533, 33906, and along the southern side of the track in continuation and intersecting Rural Section 205, to Evans Pass; thence across the Lyttelton-Sumner Road, and northerly along that road to and along the old closed road intersecting Rural Sections 21418, 55, and 33903 (part of which road is now numbered Rural Sections 36825 and 36826), thence along a line due south through trigonometrical station MM to mean high-water mark of the Lyttelton Harbour; thence proceeding westerly along the mean high-water mark of the said harbour to the approach of the Gladstone Pier; thence along lines bearing 269° 33', 185·7 links, 53° 53', 152·8 links, and 358° 21' 30", 170 links, which form the western boundary of the land in Proclamation, New Zealand Gazette dated 2nd March, 1922, page 570; thence along the western boundary of the Road Reserve and right-of-way which follow approximately along the original boundary of the sea mentioned in N.Z. Statutes, 1867, page 334, thence generally along the original southern boundary of the borough (N.Z. Statutes, 1867, page 334) to and including the area in Proclamations in New Zealand Gazettes dated 31st August, 1872, and 17th September, 1885; thence again following the old original boundary mentioned in N.Z. Statutes 1867, page 334, aforesaid to a point where it meets a public road (formerly Reserve 4394), thence following along that road bearing 84° 02' 30", thence along the northern boundary of Reserve 4167, thence again along the aforesaid road (formerly Reserve 4395) bearing 84° 02' 30" and 130° 42' 30", thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Reserve 4167 to and along the southern boundary of Reserve 4250, thence again to and along the south-western boundary of Reserve 4167 to Erskine Point, thence generally in a westerly direction by the mean high-water mark to the eastern boundary of Native Reserve 875; thence in a northerly direction along the said eastern boundary of Native Reserve 875 to and along the western boundary of Rural Section 23561, to the north-western corner of that section, the place of commencement.