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about 100 yards wide. On the head of the northern pier is a red light, and on the southern pier a green light. At night the entrance is marked by two ranges of lights, a range of two red lights on the northern breakwater and of two green lights on the southern breakwater.

Just southward of this small basin is a pier for small boats, but the entrance to it is difficult on account of reefs. In making this pier from the northward, keep two beacons with a square or recumbent cross as topmarks, and at night two green lights, in line until the pier is reached. In making the pier from the southward keep two beacons with triangular-shaped topmarks, or red lights, in line until the beacons with the green lights are in line; then follow the latter line.

Notice to Mariners No. 93 of 1905.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th November, 1905.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, South Australia, and the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

CAPE EVERARD LIGHT.

WITH reference to General Notice to Mariners, dated the 24th September, 1901, page 141, regarding the arcs of white and red lights exhibited from the lighthouse at Cape Everard, mariners and others are hereby notified that on and after about the 1st February, 1906, it is intended to extend the sector of red light to render it visible approximately 2½ miles to seaward of Sydenham Inlet; therefore after such alteration the white light will be visible from seaward between the bearings of N. 74° E. and S. 76° W., illuminating an arc of 178° seaward. Between these limits and the coast on either side the lighthouse the light will show red.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 16th October, 1905.

KANGAROO ISLAND.—BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE.

MASTERS of vessels and others are hereby informed that the master of the steamer “Suffolk” reports having passed a considerable quantity of wreckage 50 miles south-east of Backstairs Passage. The wreckage comprises heavy spars, &c., and is in the track of steamers trading inter-State.

Masters of vessels are therefore cautioned to keep a sharp lookout for wreckage of this character.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Office, Port Adelaide,
6th October, 1905.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Tauranga County, the Okain’s Bay Road District, and the Picton Borough.—Notice No. 999.

Department of Agriculture.
Wellington, 21st November, 1905.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local authorities have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

Local Authorities. Plants.
Tauranga County Council .. Ox-eye daisy.
Okain’s Bay Road Board .. Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, St. John’s wort, star thistle, and milk thistle.
Picton Borough Council .. Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakes, ragwort, or ragweed.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Wakapuaka Survey District for the Purposes of Water-supply.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” to take for a certain public work, to wit, the purposes of a water-supply for the use and convenience of the Wakapuaka Telegraph-station, the land described in the Schedule hereto. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the Public Works Office at Nelson, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking thereof, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Land District of Nelson; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 21405, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister for Public Works.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 6th February, 1906, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 30th January, 1906.

1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed of a section of the community only, and if within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge. The receipts for the year from subscriptions and donations must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

2. In the division of the vote a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will be divided according to the amounts thus augmented; but no library will receive credit for a larger income than £75—that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £100.

3. The whole of the subsidy must be expended without delay in the purchase of books for the library.

4. Application to share in the distribution must be by means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made, and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1905; and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as follows:—

DECLARATION.

I, [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary, or Treasurer] of the [Name of institution]; that during the year