may continue to wear the Medal in addition to the Insignia of the Order. It is
further Ordained that the said Medal, including the Medal awarded prior to
29th December, 1922, shall be known as "THE BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL," and
that any person to whom it has been, or may be, awarded, may, on all occasions
when the use of such letters is customary, place after his or her name the
letters "B.E.M.".

XL. It is further ordained that it shall be competent for Us, Our heirs and
successors, by an Ordinance signed by the Sovereign and sealed with the Seal
of the Order and, with regard to persons holding the Medal of the Civil
Division, on a recommendation to that effect by Our Prime Minister and
First Lord of the Treasury, or, in the case of foreign persons, by Our Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, or, with regard to persons holding the Medal of
the Military Division, on a recommendation to that effect by Our First Lord
of the Admiralty, Our Secretary of State for War or Our Secretary of State
for Air, or, in the case of any of Our Dominions the Government whereof
shall so desire, by the appropriate Minister of State for the said Dominion,
to cancel and annul the award of any Medal of the said Order, and that thereupon
the name of the recipient in the Register shall be erased; but that it shall be
competent for the Sovereign to restore the Medal to any person whose name
may have been erased when circumstances render it just and expedient so to do.

And it is Our Will and Pleasure that these Statutes sealed with the Seal
of the said Order, shall be taken and received as part and parcel of the Statutes
thereof.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's under the Seal of the said Order,
this Tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two, in the Sixth
year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty's Command,

HERBERT MORRISON.

Cancellation of
Award of Medal.
The notice gazetted on the 17th July, 1930, fixing the closing-
hours of chemists' shops within the combined district of Auckland
shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into
force of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of December, 1942.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

Notes.
(1) Pursuant to section 21 (e) of the Shops and Offices Act,
1921–22, a chemist may keep his shop open (but only for the supply
of medicines and surgical appliances) between the hours of 7 p.m.
and 9 p.m. on the statutory closing-day.

(2) Pursuant to section 35 (4) of the Shops and Offices Act,
1921–22, a chemist in the combined district whose shop is more than
two miles and a half from the exempted shop may supply medicines
and surgical appliances that are urgently required on Sundays and
on working-days outside the hours specified above: Provided that
the shop is opened for such purpose only and is closed immediately
the sale is effected, and that the door of the shop is kept locked,
except for the admission and exit of the customer.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Roads of less Width than 66 ft.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the
occupiers of all the chemists' shops within the Combined
District of Auckland, comprising the City of Auckland, the boroughs
of Birkenhead, Devonport, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, New Lynn,
Newmarket, Northcote, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, Otahuhu, and
Takapuna, and the town districts of Ellerslie, Glen Eden, Henderson,
and Papatoetoe, has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour,
desiring that all such shops within the said combined district, save
and except the shop (hereinafter referred to as "the exempted shop")
established at 155 Newton Road, within the City of Auckland, for
the purpose only of the sale of medicines and surgical appliances
that are urgently required, be closed as set out below, and that
subsection (4) of section 35 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22,
should not apply to any shop within two miles and a half of the
exempted shop while medicines and surgical appliances are obtainable
from the exempted shop—On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Sundays from the hour of
7 a.m., with the following exceptions: (1) In the event of a day
other than Saturday being observed as the statutory closing-day
in any week the closing-hour on Saturday in that week shall be
9 p.m.; (2) on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding
Good Friday the closing-hour shall be 9 p.m.; (3) on the evening of
the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day the closing-
hour shall be 11 p.m.; (4) on the evening of the working-day
immediately preceding New Year's Day the closing-hour shall be
10 p.m.; (5) there shall be no fixed closing-hour on Anzac Day;
(6) should the occupier of any shop affected by this notice observe
a whole or half-holiday and close his shop from not later than one
o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening of any
of the special days mentioned in section 26 of the Shops and Offices
Act, 1921–22, or of 2nd January, or of the Anniversary Day of the
Auckland Province, or of any day generally observed in the district
in lieu thereof, then the closing-hour for such shop in the evening of
such day shall be 9 p.m. :

And whereas the Minister of Labour is satisfied that the
signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers
of all the said shops within the said combined district, and that all
the occupiers of the said shops within the said combined district
affected by section 35 (1) of the said Act have been afforded an equal
right to share at a reasonable cost in the profits of the business
carried on by the exempted shop:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of sections 32 and 35 of the Shops
and Offices Act, 1921–22, and in pursuance of section 15 of the Shops
and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, the Minister of Labour doth
hereby direct that on and after the 21st day of December, 1942, all
the chemists' shops within the Combined District of Auckland, save
and except the exempted shop, shall be closed accordingly.

WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is
inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon
the plan of Town of Wainui-o-Mata Extension No. 3, affecting parts
of Sections 1, 2, and 3, Lowry Bay Registration District, and Sec-
tion 8, Wainui-o-Mata Registration District, Blocks XVI and XVII,
Belmont Survey District, Wellington Land District, is intended to be
used wholly for residential purposes, that Rowe Parade, adjoining
Lots 1 to 10 inclusive, Gibbs Crescent and Peel Place, adjoining
Lots 55, 56, and 58 to 69 inclusive, shown thereon should be of the
width of 66 ft. :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him
by section 17, subsection (1), of the Land Act, 1924, and of every
other power him thereunto enabling, the Minister of Lands doth
hereby authorize the laying-off of Rowe Parade, adjoining Lots 1
to 10 inclusive, Gibbs Crescent and Peel Place, adjoining Lots 55,
56, and 58 to 69 inclusive, of a width of not less than 50 ft. :

Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to
erect or cause to be erected any building at a less distance than 33 ft.
from the middle of such roads.

Given under the hand of the Minister of Lands, this 4th day of
December, 1942.

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 25/1090.)