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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 13

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th March, 1946.

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

John Tocker Cullen

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, on and from the 25th day of February, 1946.

Frederick Stoop

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Dunedin for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Dunedin and Dunedin South for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, on and from 26th day of January, 1946.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VII, Christchurch Survey District, for an Automatic-telephone Exchange

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 an automatic-telephone exchange—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 Papanui 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 Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 1 rood. Being Lot 4, D.P. 6319, part Rural Section 5.

Situated in Block VII, Christchurch Survey District (Canterbury R.D.).

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 122058, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 4th day of March, 1946.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Works.

(P.W. 20/93/2.)

The Tramways Industry Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943 revoked

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940 the Minister of Labour doth hereby revoke as from the 9th day of March, 1946, the Tramways Industry Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN,
For the Minister of Labour.

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

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour from the occupiers of fruiterers’ shops within the Borough of Levin, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22:

And whereas he is 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, the Minister of Labour doth hereby direct that on and after the 25th day of March, 1946, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed on the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., on Fridays at 9 p.m., and on Saturdays at 5 p.m., with the following exception: On the evening of the working-day immediately preceding each of the following days, viz., Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Good Friday, there shall be no fixed closing-hour.

The notice gazetted on the 9th July, 1945, fixing the closing-hours of fruiterers’ shops within the Borough of Levin shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN,
For the Minister of Labour.

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 heavy trade motors, 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 I of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor 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 eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Louie Norman Nixon, of Pokeno . . . . . . Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of February, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

The Taxi-cab Control Notice 1946

PURSUANT to the Transport Control Emergency Regulations 1942,* the Minister of Transport hereby gives notice and directs as follows:—

1. This notice may be cited as the Taxi-cab Control Notice 1946.
2. This notice shall come into force on the 8th day of March, 1946.
3. The Taxi-cab Control Notice 1945† is hereby revoked and all Taxi-cab Control Districts constituted thereunder are hereby abolished, and all Taxi-cab Control Committees appointed thereunder are hereby dissolved.
4. The area described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereto is hereby constituted a Taxi-cab Control District, and the persons specified in Column 2 of the said Schedule are hereby appointed to be members of the Taxi-cab Control Committee for the said district.

SCHEDULE

TAXI-CAB CONTROL DISTRICT AND COMMITTEE

Column 1. Column 2.

Auckland Taxi-cab Control District Auckland Taxi-cab Control Committee
All that area comprising Auckland City, Eden County, Manukau County, and part of Waitemata County, together with all boroughs and town districts situated therein (inclusive of Papakura Borough), as more particularly delineated on the plan marked TT. 3345, deposited in the Head Office of the Transport Department at Wellington.
J. A. C. Sinclair, 57 Huia Road, Auckland.
F. I. Drumm, 33 Mount Smart Road, Auckland.
L. Alderton, Solicitor, Auckland.
Hon. Bernard Martin, Member of the Legislative Council, Auckland.
F. G. Farrell, 191 Gillies Avenue, Epsom.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of February, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

• Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/190, page 459.
  Amendment No. 1: Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/36, page 66.
  Amendment No. 2: Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/93, page 186.
  † Gazette, 30th August, 1945, page 1106.