JUNE 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1783

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Paritutu Survey District for Scenery-preservation Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” “The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903,” and “The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906,” to take for scenery-preservation purposes the land described in the Schedule hereto. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at New Plymouth, 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.

The parcels of land required to be taken:—

All in the Land District of Taranaki; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 22658, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red and yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Mariners No. 40 of 1907.

WEST COAST OF NORTH ISLAND.—ERECTION OF BEACONS FOR MARAKOPA RIVER ENTRANCE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 8th June, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following leading-beacons have been erected on the south side of Marakopa River bank—viz., three beacons painted white, surmounted by triangular cages, bearing in line S. 68° E. (magnetic); two red-painted beacons of similar construction, bearing in line S. 82° E., about 200 ft. north of the first-mentioned beacon; and two inner-channel beacons (white boards) on south side of river, bearing in line with one another N. 54° E. and S. 54° W.

To enter river keep white beacons in line to cross the bar, then bear to the southward to pick up red beacons, which must be kept in line to within 30 ft. of the south inner-channel beacon, then keep a straight course 30 ft. north of inner beacons.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2535; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, 1901, Chap. vii, page 262.

J. A. MILLAR.

Making Rules for Examination of Masters of Fishing-boats up to 5 Tons Register, and prescribing Fee.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1907.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 23 of “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903,” I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Marine, do hereby make the following rules for the conduct of the examinations for certificates of competency as masters of fishing-boats up to 5 tons register, and I do order that these rules shall supersede the rules numbered 1 to 5 which were made on the 18th August, 1906, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 73, of the 23rd day of the same month.

I do hereby direct that a fee of 10s. shall be paid by each candidate for examination.

J. A. MILLAR.

RULES.

1. CANDIDATES for examination must make proper application on form Exn. 2, which will be supplied on application at any Mercantile Marine Office or Customhouse. The application, accompanied by the necessary testimonials, must be lodged at the Mercantile Marine Office or Customhouse for delivery to the Examiners. Certificates procured on false information will be cancelled.

2. All candidates must pass the examination in the sight-tests prescribed by the Rules for the Examination of Masters and Mates before they commence the other part of the examination.

3. A master of a fishing boat up to 5 tons register must be not less than nineteen years of age, and must have performed at least one year’s deck service at sea in extended river, or river or harbour, limits. He must produce satisfactory testimonials of good conduct and sobriety for at least a year immediately preceding the date of his application to be examined. He must be able to read and write.

4. He must understand the rules of the road as regards both steamers and sailing-vessels, their regulation lights, and fog and sound signals, harbour regulations, and the colonial bar and tidal signals; also any other questions appertaining to this class of vessel and the duties of the masters of such vessels which the Examiner may put to him.

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of all Watchmakers’, Jewellers’, Goldsmiths’, Silversmiths’, and Engravers’ Shops in the City of Wellington under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS by a notice dated the 3rd day of April, 1907, and gazetted on the 4th day of April, 1907, the Minister of Labour, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon him by section 21 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904,” and section 5 of “The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905,” and acting in accordance with a requisition duly made and certified by those sections, did direct that from and after the 15th day of April, 1907, all the shops wherein are carried on the several trades of watchmakers, jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, or engravers, or a combination of these or any of these trades, in the City of Wellington should be closed in the evening of working-days at the following hours: On the statutory closing-day for the weekly half-holiday throughout the whole year, at 1 p.m., or if notice is duly given by any occupier of desire to close on Saturday, then, as to that occupier, on that day; on Saturday (excepting during the month of December), at 9.30 p.m., or if such notice is given as aforesaid, then, by the occupier giving such notice, on Friday throughout the year; on all other working-days throughout the year (excepting during the month of December), at 6 p.m.; on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, or when those days fall on Monday, on the Saturdays preceding those days, at 11 p.m.; on all other working-days in the month of December (except the statutory closing-day or substituted day as aforesaid), at 10 p.m.: And whereas by a like requisition, duly made and certified as aforesaid, he has been requested to vary the notice by fixing the closing-hour on the statutory closing-day for the weekly half-holiday throughout the whole year at 1 o’clock p.m., or if notice is duly given by an occupier of desire to close on Saturday, then, as to that occupier, on that day; on Saturday (excepting during the month of December), at 11 p.m., or if such notice is given as aforesaid, then, by the occupier giving such notice, on Friday throughout the year; on all other working-days throughout the year (excepting during the month of December), at 9 o’clock p.m.; on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, or when those days fall on Monday, on the Saturday preceding those days, at 11 p.m.; on all other working days in the month of December (except the statutory closing-day or substituted day as aforesaid), at 11 p.m.:

Now, therefore, in compliance with the last-mentioned requisition, and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 21 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904,” and section 5 of “The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905,” I do hereby vary the said notice by directing that on and after the 17th day of June, 1907, all the shops mentioned shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of June, 1907.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.