1758
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
The light, which shows all round the horizon, is
72 feet above high water, and is visible from the deck
of a small craft about 13 miles.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 14th November, 1878.

LIGHT ON GATCOMBE HEAD, PORT CURTIS.

ON and after this date, a White Light will be ex-
hibited from the west side of the Pilot's Cottage on
Gatcombe Head, at an elevation of 80 feet above
high water.

The light will be obscured when bearing East of
E. by S. S. Vessels proceeding up the harbour
should, after opening out the light, keep away for
Auckland Point, being clear of the West Banks and
the shoal water off Southtrees Point, while the light
is kept in sight.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 19th November, 1878.

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of the LAND-TAX
DEPARTMENT at NAPIER

to frank and receive, free from the prepayment of
postage, letters and parcels posted on the public
service.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Postmaster-General.)

Appointment under "Land-Tax Act, 1878."

Land-Tax Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint

SAMUEL YEOMAN COLLINS, Esq.,

to be Deputy Land-Tax Commissioner for the
Hawke's Bay District, as from the 4th instant.

J. BALLANCE.

Assistant Photo-Lithographer dismissed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dismiss from the Service

Mr. SAMUEL PHILLIPS,

Assistant Photo-Lithographer in the General Survey
Department at Wellington.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(in the absence of the Minister of Lands.)

Deputy Commissioners of Stamps appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 10th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments, viz.:—

GWALTER PALAIRET, Esq.,

to be Deputy Commissioner of Stamps for the Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury, to take effect from the
1st March, 1878; and

JOHN OWEN LORD, Esq.,

to be Deputy Commissioner of Stamps for the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington, to take effect from the
27th April, 1878.

J. BALLANCE.

Land taken for Lighthouse Site, &c., Burgess Island.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Minister for
Public Works, under the provisions of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," proposes to execute certain
public works, to wit, the construction of a lighthouse,
lightkeeper's dwellings, with all requisite works,
roads, and appurtenances, on Island Pokohinou or
Burgess Island, Hauraki Gulf, in the Colony of New
Zealand, and has caused a survey to be made and
plans to be prepared showing generally the nature of
the works proposed to be executed, and the lands
required to be taken for the same, together with the
names of the owners and occupiers of such lands,
so far as the same could be ascertained, and has caused
copies of such plans to be deposited in the Public
Works Office in the City of Auckland, and at the
Post Office, Whangarei, and are there open for in-
spection: And notice is hereby also given that the
land so required to be taken as aforesaid is described
in the Schedule hereto: And notice is hereby further
given that the works proposed to be executed consist
of a lighthouse, lightkeeper's dwellings, with all
requisite works, roads, and appurtenances:

And notice is hereby further given that all persons
affected shall, and they are hereby required to, set
forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the
execution of such works or to the taking of such
lands, and to send such writing within forty days
from the first publication of this notice to the Minister
for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate on Poko-
hinou or Burgess Island, in the Hauraki Gulf, Colony
of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement
twenty-four (24) acres and thirty-five (35) perches,
more or less. Commencing at a point on the line of
high-water mark, said point bearing due East from
the lighthouse site, and at a distance from it of eighty
(80) links or thereabouts; thence in a generally
northerly direction along said line of high-water
mark for a distance of seven hundred (700) links
or thereabouts; thence by a line in a north-westerly
direction, on a bearing of 144° 17', for a distance
of six hundred and fifty-nine (659) links or there-
abouts, to a point on the line of high-water mark on
the north-western boundary or coast line; thence
following along the line of said high-water mark for
a distance of fifteen hundred (1500) links or there-
abouts; thence in a southerly direction, on a bearing
of 10° 34', for a distance of one thousand five hun-
dred and seventy (1570) links or thereabouts, to a
point on the line of high-water mark on the southern
boundary or coast line; thence in a generally east-
erly, southerly, and northerly direction, along the
said line of high-water mark, for a distance of two
thousand eight hundred (2800) links or thereabouts,
to commencing point; access to the east and west
portion of island being given by a road one chain
wide: all in the manner delineated on the map
marked M.D. 104, deposited as aforesaid.

Dated at Wellington, this ninth day of December,
1878.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works,