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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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minute, make a blast; if steam-vessels, with the whistle or syren; and if sailing-vessels, with a fog-horn; each blast to be followed by ringing the bell. Fishing vessels and boats of less than 20 tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to give the above-mentioned signals; but if they do not, they shall make some other efficient sound signal at intervals of not more than one minute.

52. Are fishing-vessels required to show any distinguishing signal during the daytime?

All vessels or boats fishing with nets or lines or trawls, when under way, shall in daytime indicate their occupation to an approaching vessel by displaying a basket or other efficient signal where it can best be seen. If vessels or boats at anchor have their gear out they shall, on the approach of other vessels, show the same signal on the side on which those vessels can pass.

Public-school Cadet Detachments, &c., recognised.

Education Department,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1906.

THE undermentioned public-school cadet battalion, company, and detachments are recognised under the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 18th February, 1904:—

Auckland Education District.

The Te Puke Public-school Cadet Detachment.

Wellington Education District.

The No. 2 South Wellington Public School Cadet Company.

Greymouth Education District.

The Seddon-Runanga Public School Cadet Detachment.

Nelson Education District.

The Nelson No. 2 Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers: F. G. Gibbs, Commanding Nelson Central No. 1 Cadet Company, to command the battalion; W. Poole, Commanding Nelson Central No. 2 Company, to be Adjutant; and F. Peart, Commanding the Wakefield Public School Cadets to be Quartermaster.

Chatham Islands.

The Te One Public School Cadet Detachment.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister of Education.

New Zealand International Exhibition, 1906. — Minerals Court.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 1906.

A GOLD medal and fifty guineas, a silver medal and twenty-five guineas, and a bronze medal and ten guineas will be awarded by the Mines Department for essays on the present condition and future prospects of the mineral resources of New Zealand, and the best means of fostering their development.

In judging the merits of the essays preference will be given to those which are of a practical character.

The essays must be sent in to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington, signed with a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author’s name and address, on or before 1st December, 1906.

The essays will be submitted to a Board of three persons (to be hereafter appointed), on whose decision the above prizes will be awarded.

NOTE.—“Mineral” means any metal or mineral, and includes petroleum and other mineral oils.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Lawrence.—Notice No. 1048.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st August, 1906.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Lawrence Borough Council has, by special order, declared Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort, foxglove, winged thistle, kangaroo acacia, viper’s bugloss, wild borage, fennel, periwinkle, elderberry, St. John’s wort, tutsan, wild turnip, ox-eye daisy, hemlock, dock, stemless thistle, common plume or Scotch thistle, woolley-headed thistle, star thistle, lupin, and pennyroyal to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the Borough of Lawrence.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 24th July, 1906.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Erection of Post-office at Whakatane.

Accepted.

McAdam, C., Auckland .. .. .. £ s. d.
566 0 0

Declined.

Larkin, James, Auckland .. .. .. 619 0 0
Mathieson, J. G., Auckland .. .. .. 626 12 1
Moody, W. F., Whakatane .. .. .. 748 6 0

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 30th July, 1906.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Erection of Police Residence at Avondale, Auckland.

Accepted.

Kay, Robert, Auckland .. .. .. £ s. d.
740 0 0

Declined.

Baldock, G., Auckland .. .. .. 754 19 2
Frankham, G. H., Auckland .. .. .. 756 0 0
Radcliffe and Burton, Auckland .. .. .. 870 0 0
Mathison, J. G., Auckland .. .. .. 918 14 7

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through Section 5, Block IX, Pirongia Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road through part of Section 5, Block IX, Pirongia Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said road, and of the land so required to be taken, is deposited in the Post-office at Kawhia, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of such public work or the taking of such land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land 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.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.