Nov. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2619

Notice to Mariners No. 90 of 1905.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th November, 1905.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SPENCER GULF.

Cockle Spit.—Approach to Port Pirie.

NOTICE is hereby given that a pile beacon, carrying a clock-faced tide-gauge, has been erected on the eastern end of Cockle Spit, in 17 ft. L.W.S., near the position formerly occupied by a red buoy.

The clock faces north-westerly, and will be illuminated at night with all possible regularity, but as from its exposed position difficulty may be experienced in attending to its lighting in bad weather, mariners are hereby warned not to trust to its being invariably illuminated under such conditions.

The dial is numbered from 0 to 12, beginning at the top and following round in the same direction as the figures on a clock, and the hand indicates the height above low water, spring tides. To ascertain the depth of water available in Port Pirie Creek, therefore, the rise indicated on the tide-gauge should be increased by 15 ft., the least present depth in the creek at L.W.S.

Approximate position: Lat. 33° 4' S., long. 137° 58' 30" E.
Charts affected: 2389B and 403 (Admiralty).

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
15th August, 1905.

Appointing Day for First Election of the Board for the Hospital District of Wallace, &c.

Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 9 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” been pleased to appoint Wednesday, the 22nd day of November, 1905, to be the day for the first election of members of the Board of the District of Wallace; that the first meeting of the Board of the District of Wallace shall be held on Thursday, the 23rd day of November, 1905, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., at the Town Hall, Riverton; that such meeting be presided over by the member of the Board elected to represent Wallace County Council; and that two shall be the number of members necessary to constitute a meeting of the Board for the conduct of business.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of certain Shops in the Borough of Picton.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the following trades in the Borough of Picton, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed at 6 o’clock p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 10 o’clock p.m. on Saturdays, and 1 o’clock p.m. on Thursdays (the weekly half-holiday): And whereas the Picton Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops mentioned within the borough: Now, therefore, I, Albert Pitt, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 20th day of November, 1905, all shops in the following trades in the Borough of Picton shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Trades.—Drapers, storekeepers, boot-merchants, crockery-merchants, ironmongers, and saddlers.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of November, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Labour.

Government Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Te Kuiti.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1905.

AN agency of the Life Branch of the above Department will be opened at

THE POST-OFFICE, TE KUITI,

as from the 6th November, 1905.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Officiating Ministers for 1905.—Notice No. 32.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1905.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII., and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend Harry Ranston.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Population of the Colony.

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Colony of New Zealand on the 30th September, 1905.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1905.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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