440
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 29

SCHEDULE
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing one hundred and sixty-six (166) acres and thirty-three (33) perches, more or less, being part Lot 3 on a plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Auckland under No. 2583, being part Allotments 163, 164, 167, and 168, Parish of Hautapu, and being all the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 203, folio 227 (Auckland Registry).

As witness my hand, this 23rd day of April, 1945.
C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/1444/103.)

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendments.—Fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops within the Borough of Hamilton

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Borough of Hamilton, has been forwarded to me desiring that all such shops within the said borough, save and except the shop (hereinafter referred to as “the exempted shop”) established in Everybody’s Buildings, Victoria Street, within the Borough of Hamilton, 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, and Thursdays at 5.30 p.m., on Fridays at 9 p.m., and on Sundays, except during the time from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the following exceptions: (1) On the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Good Friday and on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Anniversary Day or Anzac Day when any such day falls on a Friday, the hour of closing shall be 9 p.m.; (2) on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day and on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day, the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m.; and (3) on New Year’s Day, 2nd January, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Sovereign’s Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day, the closing-hour shall be 8 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 borough, and that all the occupiers of the said shops within the said borough 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, I do hereby direct that on and after the 14th day of May, 1945, all the chemists’ shops within the Borough of Hamilton, save and except the exempted shop, shall be closed accordingly.

The notice dated the 20th July, 1932, and gazetted on the 28th July, 1932, fixing the closing-hours of chemists’ shops in the Borough of Hamilton shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1945.
JAS. O’BRIEN,
For the 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 borough 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.

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to the driving of a motor-omnibus, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:—

A motor-driver’s license issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a motor-omnibus for the purpose of the business of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of twenty-one years, to drive a motor-omnibus for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
S. S. Lavery, of Granity H. J. Bradley.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1945.
JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

The Mataura Milk Delivery Notice 1945

PURSUANT to Regulation 4 of the Delivery Emergency Regulations 1942,* the Minister of Transport doth hereby give notice as follows:—

1. This notice may be cited as the Mataura Milk Delivery Notice 1945.

2. This notice shall come into force on the Monday following publication thereof in the Gazette.

3. The scheme set out in the Schedule hereto is hereby provided for the district described therein.

4. The Mataura Milk Delivery Notice 1944† is hereby consequentially revoked.

SCHEDULE
THE MATAURA MILK DELIVERY SCHEME, 1945

(1) FOR the purposes of this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“The district” means the area of the Borough of Mataura :
“Minister” means the Minister of Transport.

(2) For the purposes of assisting in the administration of this scheme there shall be a committee, which shall consist of the following members :—

(a) Two members to be appointed by the Mataura Borough Council :
(b) One member to be appointed by the parties to this scheme :
(c) The Controller of Oil Fuel, Mataura.

(3) On the death or resignation of any member of the committee, the vacancy created thereby shall be filled by appointment in the manner in which the vacating member was appointed.

(4) The functions of the committee shall be to receive and investigate complaints affecting the administration of this scheme, to advise the Minister on any matters that may be referred to the committee by the Minister or that may be considered by it of its own motion, and to make recommendations to the Minister for amending this scheme.

(5) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this scheme, the committee may regulate its procedure in such manner as it thinks fit.

(6) The names of the vendors who are parties to this scheme and the areas in which they may deliver milk are as follows:—

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1945.
JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 33/104.)

• Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/191, page 465.
  † Gazette, 13th July, 1944, page 886.

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

National Service Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1945.

THE Controller of Man-power doth hereby give notice that the Hon. 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. 97, 17th April, 1945
Addition—
Aluminium Utensils, Ltd., at Auckland.

Declaration No. 134, 17th April, 1945
Additions—
Hallahan’s Bridge construction work on the Waimamaku-Ohaeawai Main Highway.
Hikurangi River Bridge construction work on the Kamo-Hikurangi Main Highway.
Wairau River Bridge construction work on the Kamo–Hikurangi Main Highway.
Purua Hall Bridge construction work on the Kamo–Hikurangi Main Highway.
Thorburn’s Bridge construction work on the Kamo–Hikurangi Main Highway.
Kiripaka Bridge construction work on the Whangarei–Kiripaka Main Highway.

Declaration No. 150, 11th April, 1945
Addition—
Fashions Ltd., at New Plymouth.

Declaration No. 153, 17th April, 1945
Deletion—
H. F. Donnelly, at Pakawau, Nelson.

Declaration No. 155, 17th April, 1945
Addition—
Hygienic Towel Supply, Ltd., at Wellington.

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