No-LICENCE DISTRICTS
District.
Licence
To be
Restored.
Licence
Be Not
Restored.
Number of
Valid
Votes
Recorded.
Auckland Suburbs .. ..
Clutha .. ..
Eden .. ..
Grey Lynn .. ..
Mataura .. ..
Oamaru .. ..
Roxkill .. ..
Wellington East .. ..
Wellington South .. ..
Wellington West .. ..
Totals .. ..
9,532
4,725
5,923
7,843
5,476
5,938
7,949
6,992
6,602
7,206
68,186
9,435
3,838
9,396
9,207
4,314
5,556
12,863
8,382
5,695
8,489
77,175
18,967
8,563
15,319
17,050
9,790
11,494
20,812
15,374
12,297
15,695
145,361
Notification of the Number of Valid Votes Recorded at the Licensing
Poll Taken on the 30th day of November, 1949, and of the Result
Thereof
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st February, 1950.
IN pursuance of the provisions of section 16 of the Licensing
Amendment Act, 1910, as modified by section 58 of the
Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, I, Thomas Clifton Webb, Minister
of Justice, do hereby notify that the total number of valid votes
recorded at the poll throughout New Zealand, taken in accordance
with Part II of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, was 1,065,122.
And I do further notify that the total number of valid votes
recorded throughout New Zealand in respect of the proposals
submitted under section 56 of the Licensing Amendment Act,
1918, was as under, viz. :-
For National Continuance .. ..
For State Purchase and Control .. ..
For National Prohibition .. ..
Votes.
660,573
135,982
268,567
As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of either
of the proposals for State purchase and control and for national
prohibition without compensation does not amount to more than
one-half of all the valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby notify,
under section 59 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, that the
result of the poll is that national continuance is deemed to have
been carried.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.
Waihi Swamp Drainage Area.-Penalty on Overdue Rates
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th February 1950.
IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Swamp
Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers
within the Waihi Rating Area are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March,
1950, unpaid on 14th March, 1950.
Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the
Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205,
Auckland C. 1.
E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/24/1.)
Exemption Order Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940
PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister
of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions
of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations 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 licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule
hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor in the
course of his employment on a farm or market garden of the 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).
Bertie Bertacco .. Father, 7 Mile Road, Runanga.
Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of February, 1950.
W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.
Approval of Testing Officers Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940
TN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,
the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the persons
named in column 2 of the Schedule hereunder, being Testing Officers
under the said regulations, for the authority specified in Column 1 of
the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Column 1.
Transport Department
Transport Department
Transport Department
Column 2.
Howard Henry Baker.
Clifford Jackson Bragg.
Norman Ralph Sparrow.
Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of February, 1950.
W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.
Formation of Defence Rifle Clubs
Army Department,
Wellington, 15th February, 1950.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the
formation of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Clubs:-
Waikohu Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Te Karaka.
Dated 3rd May, 1949.
Kaiparoro Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Kaiparoro.
Dated 4th October, 1949.
T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.
New Year Honours Conferred on Members of Royal New Zealand
Air Force
Air Department,
Wellington, 24th January, 1950.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has announced that the
King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of the
celebration of the New Year to confer the following honours and
awards:-
To be an Additional Knight Commander of the Military Division
of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire-
Air Vice-Marshal Arthur de Terrotte Nevill, C.B., C.B.E.,
B.Sc., A.F.R.Ee.S.
To be an Additional Officer of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire-
Wing Commander William Glanville Woodward.
To be an Additional Member of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire-
Flight Lieutenant Sidney Maxwell Hope.
Warrant Officer Richard Hermann Simpson.
Air Force Cross-
Flight Lieutenant Alwyn Lennox Parlane.
British Empire Medal-
73690 Flight Sergeant Hilton Bravener Fowler.
70409 Flight Sergeant James Ernest Charles Price.
70646 Flight Sergeant Leslie Franklin Gibbs.
70827 Sergeant (W) Jean Mary Murtagh.
Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air-
Flying Officer Arthur Cyril Hilliam.
Master Signaller Horace James Haberfield.
T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.
Notice to Persons Affected by Applications for Licences Under Part III
of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936
Pharmacy Industry
Mrs. G. E. Roberts, 17 Easton Street, Foxton, has applied for
a licence to operate a new pharmacy at 115 Evans Street, Timaru.
Retail Sale and Distribution of Motor-spirit
B. Wilmhurst, corner of Chapel and Perry Streets, Masterton,
has applied for a licence to resell motor-spirit from one pump to
be installed inside service station premises at the corner of Chapel
and Perry Streets, Masterton.
Applicants and other persons considering themselves to be
materially affected by the decisions of the Bureau of Industry on
these applications should, not later than 9th March, 1950, submit
any written evidence and representations they may desire to tender.
All communications should be addressed to Secretary, Bureau of
Industry, C.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.
S. J. COLLINS, Secretary.