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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

Devonport, 16th August, 1900.

I, Joseph Cochrane Macky, of Auckland, New Zealand, Merchant, Mayor of the Borough of Devonport, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” and amendments thereto, towards obtaining the sanction of freeholders and ratepayers of the Borough of Devonport for the proposal to raise the special loan of £10,000 have been duly taken and the resolution in favour of the proposal duly carried; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

J. C. MACKY,
Mayor.

Declared at Auckland, this 20th day of August, 1900, before me—J. H. Hannan, J.P.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of kerosene and other oils under bond, namely,—

Port of Auckland.

An iron-and-wood building roofed with iron, situated on Beach Road, Auckland, to be known as

PORTER’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 643.]

Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1900.

Marine Department.
Wellington, 24th August, 1900.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 40 of 1900, issued by this department on the 26th ultimo, the following notice, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

PORT CURTIS.—EXHIBITION LIGHTS, SOUTH CHANNEL, AND CHANGED POSITION, GATCOMBE HEAD LIGHTHOUSE.

REFERRING to Notice No. 11, issued from this office on the 6th July last, notice is hereby given that on and after the 8th August the South Channel into Port Curtis will be lighted for navigation by night, and the light from Gatcombe Head will be exhibited from the new tower erected 450 ft. N. by E. from the old structure.

A description of the new lights has already been given in Notice No. 11, and the directions for their use are as follow :—

South Channel.

By Day.—Vessels bound into the Port of Gladstone and using the South Channel by day will bring the leading-light beacons, near the Boyne River, in line S. 75° W. before the Jenny Lind Bank buoy is reached; continue with them in line until South Trees Point comes in line with Scrubby Mountain N.W. by W. ½ W., then haul up for these marks, keeping them in line, and passing two red buoys on the starboard hand, until abreast of the floating-light boat (at the main entrance of the North Channel), then steer N. 55° W. until abreast of the Black Beacon (marking the limit of the shoal water E.S.E. from South Trees Point), then change course to N. 79° W., passing South Trees Point at a distance of about three cables, and two red buoys on the starboard hand; after the second red buoy is passed (marking the Rich Rock) haul down for the jetty.

By Night.—Vessels entering the South Channel at night will get on the line of leading-lights near the Boyne River before Bustard Head Light bears E.S.E. With the leading-lights in line bearing S. 75° W., stand in until the leading-lights on Gatcombe Head come into line bearing N. 55° W., when follow these leads until East Point Light is obscured, or until the main light on Gatcombe Head opens out; then steer N. 69° W. to pass about two cables to the westward of the lightboat marking the inner entrance of North Channel; after passing the lightboat proceed as in directions given for North Channel at night.

North Channel.

By Day.—Same as at present.

By Night.—Bring Gatcombe Head Light to bear S.W. by W. ½ W., and steer in on this course until East Point Light opens out, then haul down S. by W. until Oyster Rock Light comes in sight, then steer to pass about 1½ cables from it, taking care to avoid the shoal bank lying off the land between Settlement Point and Gatcombe Head. After passing the Oyster Rock Light, bring it and Gatcombe Head Light slightly open to the westward, and steer to pass the floating white light close on the starboard hand.

A vessel when passing the floating white light will be in the main channel, and a N.W. by W. ½ W. course should be steered up the harbour until the small light at the pilot’s cottage at Gatcombe Head opens out on an E. by S. ½ S. bearing, when a vessel may be kept away, being clear of the elbow of the bank and of South Trees Point while the light is in sight.

Before rounding South Trees Point the light at the foot of Auckland Point will be seen. Keep the light open, and steer to pass it at a cable’s length; and, after it changes to red, continue until the two red beacon-lights are in line, when haul up to enter the creek.

Since the tides run with a velocity of from 1½ to 2½ knots an hour, due caution will have to be observed, and a proper allowance made for tidal influence, when navigating this channel.

Chart affected, 1900; Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department, Brisbane, 6th August, 1900.

Proclamations under “The Vegetation Diseases Act, 1898,” by the Governor of the Colony of Tasmania.—Notice No. 595.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, New Zealand, 27th August, 1900.

THE following Proclamations controlling the introduction of plants, &c., into Tasmania are published for general information.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.—No. 256.

Agricultural Department,
Hobart, 3rd August, 1900.

THE Governor in Council has been pleased to issue the following Proclamation under “The Vegetation Diseases Act, 1898.”

By His Excellency’s command.

GEO. COLLINS,
Minister for Agriculture.

“THE VEGETATION DISEASES ACT, 1898.”—A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas I, the Right Honourable Jenico William Joseph, Viscount Gormanston, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Tasmania and its Dependencies, in Council, did, by a Proclamation dated the twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred, made in pursuance of section three of “The Vegetation Diseases Act, 1898” (62 Vict., No. 21), absolutely prohibit the importation, introduction, and bringing into the Colony of Tasmania of any fruit-trees, cuttings, scions, buds, and grafts of fruit-trees: And whereas it is expedient that such Proclamation as aforesaid should be revoked, and that other provision should be made in lieu thereof: Now, therefore, I, the Right Honourable Jenico William Joseph, Viscount Gormanston, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, in Council, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by section three of the said Act, and of every other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby revoke my said recited Proclamation: And I hereby absolutely prohibit the importation, introduction, and bringing into the said Colony of Tasmania of all fruit-trees, cuttings, scions, buds, and grafts of fruit-trees, and the barberry, linden, euonymus, grape-vine, maple, acacias, rose, strawberry, raspberry, hawthorn, ash, gooseberry, currants, honeysuckle, lilac, privet, bignonia, elm, oak, birch, alder, chestnut, willow, and poplar, or cuttings, scions, buds, and grafts of any of the same.

Given under my hand, at Hobart, in Tasmania aforesaid, this third day of August, one thousand nine hundred.

GORMANSTON, Governor.

By His Excellency’s command.

GEO. COLLINS,
Minister for Agriculture.