4 SEPT.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1461

Notice Under the Regulations Act 1936

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act 1936 of the making of regulations as under:

Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 .. Rabbit Destruction Regulations 1949, Amendment 1952/165 3/9/52 2d.
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Adhesive Stamps Act 1939 .. Adhesive Stamps Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 3 1952/166 3/9/52 1d.
Post and Telegraph Act 1928 .. Post and Telegraph Staff Regulations 1951, Amend- 1952/167 3/9/52 1d.
ment No. 2

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting serial number.

R. E. OWEN, Government Printer.

Price Order No. 1407 (Australian Potatoes)

PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, hereby makes the following Price Order:-

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1407, and shall come into force on the 5th day of September 1952.
2. Price Orders No. 1398* and 1400† are hereby revoked.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies with respect to all potatoes imported into New Zealand from Australia and sold by way of retail.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF POTATOES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. The maximum price that may be charged or received for any potatoes to which this Order applies that are sold by way of retail shall be determined as follows:-

North Island

(a) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate within a radius of twenty miles from the principal post-office at Wellington or New Plymouth, the maximum price shall be 5½d. per pound.
(b) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate within a radius of twenty miles from the principal post-office at Auckland or elsewhere in the land districts of Wellington, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, or Gisborne than at one of the places specified in paragraph (a) hereof the maximum price shall be 6d. per pound.
(c) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate elsewhere in the land districts of Auckland or North Auckland than at one of the places specified in paragraph (b) hereof the maximum price shall be 6¼d. per pound.

South Island

(d) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate in the land district of Nelson or within a radius of twenty miles from the principal post-office at Christchurch or Dunedin, the maximum price shall be 6d. per pound.
(e) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate elsewhere in the South Island than at one of the places specified in paragraph (d) hereof the maximum price shall be 6½d. per pound.

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

5. Every retailer who offers or exposes any potatoes to which this Order applies for sale in any shop shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the potatoes to which it relates as to be obviously descriptive thereof a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated in legible and prominent characters the word "Australian" and the retail price per pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of September 1952.

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

[L.S.] D. W. A. BARKER, Presiding Member.
I. D. REID, Member.

• Gazette, 31 July 1952, Vol. II, page 1304.
  † Gazette, 14 August 1952, Vol. II. page 1371.

Revoking a Notice Declaring Land to be Subject to Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936, Tuparoa Development Scheme

Pursuant to section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes a notice made on the 13th day of June 1939 and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 45 of the 15th day of June 1939, at page 1838, whereby the land described in the Schedule hereto was declared to be subject to Part I of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

ALL that land in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District, situate in Block III, Mata Survey District, and known as the Puhunga A 4B Block, containing 65 acres 1 rood 14 perches, more or less.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of August 1952.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs-

M. SULLIVAN,
Assistant Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(H.O. M.A. 1/4/4; D.O. M.A. 8023)

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan

Wellington, 26 August 1952.

THE following notice, received by the Right Hon. the Minister of Finance from the Mayor of the City of Palmerston North, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926.

B. C. ASHWIN, Secretary to the Treasury.

OPERA HOUSE LOAN, 1952 £53,000

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the City of Palmerston North taken on the 30th day of July 1952 on the proposal of the Palmerston North City Council to borrow the sum of £53,000 for the purpose of re-constructing, renovating, and re-seating the Opera House, Municipal Hall, and supper room :-

Votes. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 1,068
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1,259
Informal .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21
I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 25th day of August 1952.

G. TREMAINE, Mayor.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

HAROLD EDGAR SIMPSON, of 2 Nainoui Avenue, Point Chevalier. Shoemaker, was adjudged bankrupt on 27 August 1952. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Tuesday, 9 September, 1952 at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

WILLIAM GEORGE SIMPSON of 9 Beatrix Street, Avondale, Shoemaker, was adjudged bankrupt on 27 August 1952. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Tuesday, 9 September 1952, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends as under have been declared on all accepted proved claims:-

Estate of Richard Victor Bailey, of Ngongotaha, Builder. First and final dividend of 3s. 4d. in the pound.
Estate of Jabez James Busby, of Te Kuiti, Railway Bookstall Proprietor. Second and final dividend of 5s. in the pound.
Estate of Emil Friedlander, of Hamilton, Agent. Second dividend of 5s. in the pound.
Estate of Frederick Norman Walker, of Frankton Junction, Builder. First and final dividend of 10d. in the pound.

A. J. BENNETTS. Official Assignee.
Supreme Court, Hamilton, 25 August 1952.

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