APRIL 5] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 349

Special Order made by the Lower Hutt City Council altering the Total Number of Members of the Council

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington 4th April, 1944.

THE following special order made by the Lower Hutt City Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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SPECIAL ORDER

“ That, pursuant to the provisions of sections 34 (1) (a) and 148 (1) (c) of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, the Lower Hutt City Council hereby resolves that the number of members of the Council, exclusive of the Mayor, be increased to twelve (12), such alteration to take effect as from the 24th of April, 1944.”

Certified correct—

J. W. ANDREWS, Mayor.
T. G. RICHARDSON, Acting Town Clerk.

(I.A. 103/137/11.)

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The Essential Building Works Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943, Amendment No. 2

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PURSUANT to the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows:—

(1) This Order may be cited as the Essential Building Works Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943, Amendment No. 2, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Essential Building Works Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943* (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”).

(2) Clause 9 of the principal Order as amended by clause 2 of the Essential Building Works Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943, Amendment No. 1†, is further amended by omitting the words “beyond the one and a half miles” in the second paragraph of subclause 1 thereof, and substituting the words “beyond the prescribed central point.”

(3) This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of April, 1944.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

• Gazette No. 46, 17th June, 1943, page 695.
  † Gazette No. 102, 18th November, 1943, page 1391.

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Plant declared a Noxious Weed in Whangarei Borough.—(Notice No. Ag. 4084)

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Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 4th April, 1944.

THE following special order made by the Whangarei Borough Council on the 20th day of January, 1944, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

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SPECIAL ORDER

“ In exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Whangarei Borough Council hereby resolves and declares, by way of special order, that the plant mentioned in the Schedule hereto (being plants mentioned in the Second Schedule to the said Act as extended from time to time by the Governor-General in Council) to be a noxious weed within the Borough of Whangarei.

“ SCHEDULE

“ Paterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum).”

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

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The Lemon Marketing Regulations 1940.—Notice fixing Prices of certain Grades

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Office of the Minister of Marketing,
Wellington, 30th March, 1944.

PURSUANT to Regulation 5:1 of the Lemon Marketing Regulations 1940, I hereby fix the following prices per loose bushel to be paid by the Marketing Department for lemons delivered to the Department during the undermentioned period.

The prices of Preferred Commercial Grade are fixed on a basic rate of 4s. 8d. loose bushel.

Period of delivery (both days inclusive): 1st April to 30th April, 1944:—

Loose packed fresh lemons, Preferred Commercial Grade .. .. .. .. 8 6
Loose packed fresh lemons, Commercial Grade .. .. .. .. .. 7 0
Loose packed fresh lemons, First-grade Peel .. .. .. .. .. 4 9
Loose packed fresh lemons, Second-grade Peel .. .. .. .. 3 2
Loose packed fresh lemons, Juice Grade .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 7

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Marketing.

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Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Amendments to Declarations of Essential Undertakings

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National Service Department,
Wellington, 30th March, 1944.

THE Controller of Man-power doth hereby give notice that the Minister of Industrial Man-power has made the following amendments to declarations of essential undertakings as enumerated hereunder as from the dates indicated:—

Declaration (No. 60), 25th March, 1944

Addition—
Smeeds Quarries, Ltd., at Tuakau.

Declaration (No. 106), 25th March, 1944

Addition—
Bel-Wood Bitumen Products, Ltd., at Kaiwarra.

Declaration (No. 134), 25th March, 1944

Addition—
Construction work on the Arawata Bridge, Jackson’s Bay–Haast Road.

Declaration (No. 150), 25th March, 1944

Addition—
P. G. Garments, at Christchurch.

Deletion—
Peter George, at Christchurch.

H. L. BOCKETT, Controller of Man-power.

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Price Order No. 217 (Amending Price Order No. 177 (Tomatoes))*

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PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939†, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order:—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 217, and shall come into force on the 10th day of April, 1944.

2. (1) Price Order No. 184‡ is hereby revoked.

(2) The Schedule to Price Order No. 177* shall hereafter be read as if Price Order No. 184 had not been made.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of April, 1944.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

[L.S.] W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
H. L. WISE, Member.

• Gazette, 25th November, 1943, Vol. III, page 1414.
  † Statutory Regulations, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  ‡ Gazette, 13th January, 1944, Vol. I, page 16.

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Open Seasons for the taking or killing of Opossums in certain Acclimatization Districts

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C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of April, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby order and declare that opossums may be taken or killed within the acclimatization districts specified in the Schedule hereto, except in any sanctuary other than a scenic reserve, subject in all cases to the general regulations made by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, and to the special conditions specified in connection with each district.

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SCHEDULE

HAWKE’S BAY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 750.)

1. Season: Noon on 1st July to noon on 1st September, 1944 (inclusive).
2. License fee: £2.
3. Officers authorized to issue trappers’ licenses: Chief Postmaster, Napier; Postmasters, Dannevirke, Tikokino, and Puketitiri.

LAKES DISTRICT ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 62 of 9th August, 1934, at page 2451.)

1. Season: Noon on 1st July to noon on 1st September, 1944 (inclusive).
2. License fee: £2.
3. Officer authorized to issue trappers’ licenses: Postmaster, Queenstown.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(I.A. 49/1.)