2752
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 107

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th October, 1940.

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

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

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PLUNKET ROOMS LOAN, 1940, £950.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Opotiki, taken on the 10th day of July, 1940, on the proposal of the Opotiki Borough Council to borrow the sum of nine hundred and fifty pounds for erection of Plunket and rest rooms:—

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 38
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 34

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 8th day of October, 1940.

G. S. MOODY, Mayor.

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Notice under the Export Licenses Regulations 1938.

Office of the Minister of Customs,
22nd October, 1940.

IN pursuance of clauses 2 and 15 of the Export Licenses Regulations 1938, I hereby declare that the following goods shall be subject to the said regulations:—

Postage-stamps (used or unused), including postage-stamps not being New Zealand produce exported by any means.

The above determination shall apply to goods laden on an exporting vessel or posted for exportation on or after 29th October, 1940.

W. NASH, Minister of Customs.

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Notice declaring “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and other Organizations to be Subversive.

In the matter of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 1.

WHEREAS I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, His Majesty’s Attorney-General, am satisfied that the methods and activities of a certain organization or organizations—namely, the organization or organizations known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses” or “Witnesses of Jehovah,” “The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,” and “The International Bible Students Association” have a subversive tendency and may be injurious to the public safety: Now, therefore, pursuant to the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 1, I do declare the said organization or organizations “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” “Witnesses of Jehovah,” “The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,” and “The International Bible Students Association” to be a subversive organization or organizations for the purposes of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, and the amendments thereof.

Dated this 21st day of October, 1940.

H. G. R. MASON, Attorney-General.

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Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 1940.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

Charles Edward Brian, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Wellington.
Herbert Hawke, Postmaster, Cambridge.
Ernest Arnold Pankhurst, Postmaster, Carterton.
Alexander Semple, Postmaster, Waipawa.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Telegraphs.

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Brushware Manufacturing Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1940.

WHEREAS it appears to me to be expedient for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, I, Frederick Jones, acting for the Minister of Labour, pursuant to the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Brushware Manufacturing Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1940.

2. This Order applies to the employees of the New Dominion Brushware Company, Limited, Wanganni, engaged in the manufacture of brushware.

3. The provisions of all Acts and all regulations thereunder and of the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Brush and Broom Trade Employees’ Award dated the 12th day of December, 1939, and recorded in Book of Awards, Vol. XXXIX, page 1889, shall be and are hereby suspended in so far as they operate to prevent an additional four hours being worked by the workers hereinbefore referred to at ordinary rates of pay.

4. This Order shall remain in operation only until the 31st day of December, 1940.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of October, 1940.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Labour.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Mangaorongo Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of road—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 Otorohanga 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.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 22 perches.

Being portion of Puketarata 18B 2A.

Situated in Block I, Mangaorongo Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 30346.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 105800, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 23rd day of October, 1940.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 70/2/8/0/3.)

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Approval of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers’ Regulations 1940.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport does hereby approve, until further notice, of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulations for the authorities specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Dunedin City Corporation .. Richard J. Corkin, of Dunedin, Traffic Inspector.
Dannevirke County Council .. Ralph Erskine, of Dannevirke, County Employee.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of October, 1940.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.