1298
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

John Leo McDonald

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Kawhia.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Lyall McKenzie Percy Heenan

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Stewart Island.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

John Cant

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Matiere.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Rendle Kelway Pope

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Black's.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1941.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Matthew Edward McGifford

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Blackball, on and from the 16th day of April, 1941.

Ruby Isabella Tier (Mrs.)

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whakarara, on and from the 16th day of April, 1941.

Andrew Robert Kay

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Brunner, on and from the 15th day of April, 1941.

Vernon John Lee

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Taneatua, on and from the 5th day of April, 1941.

G. F. BOLT, Secretary.

Notice approving certain Activities of “Jehovah's Witnesses” and other Organizations.

In the matter of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940.

WHEREAS by a notice dated the 21st day of October, 1940, and published in the Gazette on the 24th day of October, 1940, 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” (all hereinafter referred to as “the said organizations”), were declared a subversive organization or organizations for the purposes of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, and the amendments thereof:

Now, therefore, pursuant to the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, as amended by the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 1, and the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 4, I do hereby consent, subject to the conditions hereinafter appearing, to members of any of the said organizations summoning, organizing, conducting, addressing, attending, or inviting any present or past member of any of the said organizations to attend any meeting held or proposed to be held by or for the purposes of any of the said organizations if the meeting is held or proposed to be held, as the case may be, for study of the Bible, prayer, or worship and for no other purpose and if all the following conditions are complied with, namely:—

(a) That the meeting is held or proposed to be held within a building or in a tent:

(b) That no public notice of the meeting or proposed meeting is given except such as may be permitted by a constable:

(c) That the meeting is not commenced or continued or proposed to be commenced or continued if any persons are present thereat other than members or former members of any of the said organizations:

And I do hereby further consent to the payment of moneys to or for the benefit of any of the said organizations for the purposes only of any meeting or proposed meeting of any of the said organizations, if the meeting is held or proposed to be held, as the case may be, for study of the Bible, prayer, or worship, and for no other purpose, and if all the foregoing conditions as to any such meeting or proposed meeting are complied with.

Dated this 8th day of May, 1941.

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

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

General Post Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1941.

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 officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed transmitting and receiving officer 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:—

Alfred Stanley Powley, Postmaster, Gore.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Telegraphs.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendments.— Varying the Closing-hours of Butchers’ Shops within the Borough of Stratford.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of butchers’ shops within the Borough of Stratford, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, desiring that the closing-hours of butchers’ shops in the said borough fixed by the notice in that behalf gazetted on 1st December, 1938, be varied:

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, David Wilson, acting for the Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 19th day of May, 1941, all the said shops within the said borough shall during the months of January, February, March, April, October, November, and December in each year, be closed on Fridays at the hour of 8 p.m. in lieu of 5 p.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1941.

D. WILSON,
For the Minister of Labour.