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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23137, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1907.

THE “NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES,” AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE “NEW ZEALAND PILOT,” EDITION 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 19th November, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department has now published the “New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables,” and supplementary information to date relating to the “New Zealand Pilot,” edition 1901. The work contains altogether 380 pages, twenty-four folded plans of New Zealand harbours and wharves, three coloured maps of New Zealand, one illustrating the different kinds of lighthouses, and the others showing the railway and steamer communication up to date.

There is also a twofold coloured page giving the international code flags, and illustrating their use in signalling by single, two-flag, three-flag, and four-flag hoists.

About a dozen of the single pages in different parts of the book are illustrated by diagrams, semaphore and flag signals, &c., some of which are coloured.

Besides the information, with plans, about the principal harbours of New Zealand, there are this year no less than eighty pages supplementary to the “New Zealand Pilot,” edition 1901, to keep that work up to date. Twenty-five pages have been given this year of cautions and information, &c., relating to fires on ships. Several pages are devoted, as in previous editions, to courses and distances around New Zealand, and to many oversea ports; composite and great circle courses having been calculated with great care between New Zealand and South African ports, and also between New Zealand ports and Cape Horn.

The work may be obtained at the shipping offices at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, at the Customhouses in other ports, and from any booksellers who stock it, price 2s.

J. A. MILLAR.

Examination of Masters and Mates in Signalling.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 19th November, 1907.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power vested in me by section 23 of “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903,” I do hereby revoke the rule as to the examination in signalling which was made on the 12th April, 1907, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of the same month, and I do hereby make the following additional rule for the conduct of examinations of masters and mates, and do order that it shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1909.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Marine.

RULE.

CANDIDATES for the extra master’s certificate will, in addition to the ordinary examination in the method of signalling dealt with in the International Code and British Signal Manual, be required to show practical proficiency in both the Morse and movable semaphore methods of signalling—i.e., the ability to make and take in signals by both these methods with reasonable speed and accuracy.

This examination will also be open to officers holding, or candidates for, certificates of competency as master or mate, as a voluntary examination, and, should the candidate pass the examination, the fact, with the date and place of passing, will be recorded on his certificate of competency. The fee for this voluntary examination will be £1. Attention is drawn to the fact that the Pyrotechnic Morse Code at present given in the British Signal Manual will in the new edition now in preparation by the Admiralty be omitted. The Board of Trade have in consequence decided that this code shall not form a subject of the examination.

Candidates for all grades of certificates will be required to be conversant with the Morse and semaphore alphabets, and with the British Signal Manual.

Authorising the Laying-off of certain Streets in the Township of Hawera Extension No. 1 of a Width of not less than 66 ft. each.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 8th November, 1907.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Clifford, Campbell, Burns, Clive, and Douglas Streets, in the Township of Hawera Extension No. 1, Taranaki Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. each, instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of certain Streets in the Township of Moorend Extension No. 1 of a Width of not less than 66 ft. each.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 9th November, 1907.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Ngaroma and Gordon Streets, in the Township of Moorend Extension No. 1, Auckland Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. each, instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of certain Streets in the Township of Awarere of a Width of not less than 66 ft. each.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 15th November, 1907.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Abbott Street and Queen’s Avenue, in the Township of Awarere, Wellington Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. each, instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of certain Streets in the Township of Tawa Extension No. 4 of a Width of not less than 66 ft. each.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 18th November, 1907.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Handyside, Palliser, Scwartz, Kingdon, Russell, Coates, Plimmer, and Miles Streets, and Collins Avenue, in the Township of Tawa Extension No. 4, Wellington Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. each, instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1907.

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 4th February, 1908, 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 27th January, 1908.

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