1604 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 44

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st June, 1908.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Kawhia County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901."

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Public notice is hereby given that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Kawhia County, duly taken on the 16th day of May, 1908, upon a proposal of the Kawhia County Council to borrow, under the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," and the amendments thereof, a sum of £2,000 for forty-one years at 3 1/2 per cent. per annum, for the purposes of extending and enlarging the wharf at Kawhia, and providing landing conveniences at Oparau, Hauturu, and Kinohaku, the number of votes recorded for and against the said proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 87; against the proposal, 2; informal, 1.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

W. J. SHAW,
Chairman.

Kawhia, 20th May, 1908.

Forbidding Money-order and Correspondence for the Dr. Collins N.Y. Medical Institute, New York.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the institute whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 9 of "The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906," that no money-order in favour of the said institute shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said institute (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to such address without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

DR. COLLINS N.Y. MEDICAL INSTITUTE, 140 West 34 Street, New York, N.Y.

Dated this 28th day of May, 1908.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Acting Postmaster-General.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 1st June, 1908.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

SUPREME COURTHOUSE, WELLINGTON.—ADDITIONS.

Accepted. £ s. d.
Emeny, W. G., Wellington .. .. 2,289 0 0

Declined.
Hunt and McDonald, Wellington .. .. 2,386 0 0
Meyer and Illingworth, Wellington .. .. 2,397 0 0
Russell, James, Wellington .. .. 2,480 0 0
McLean and Gray, Wellington .. .. 2,593 10 0
Seamer, A., Wellington .. .. 2,596 0 0
Mace and Nicholson, Wellington .. .. 2,740 0 0
Wakelin and Son, Wellington .. .. 2,789 8 0
Humphries Bros., Wellington .. .. 2,886 0 0
Frain, M., Wellington .. .. 4,573 0 0

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Huia Road through Mangaroa B Block, Block VI, Ohura Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 94 of "The Public Works Act, 1905," that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 27th June, 1907, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 26th October, 1905.

SCHEDULE.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same area is delineated upon 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.

Dated this 26th day of May, 1908.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

Notice to Mariners No. 36 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1908.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., United States of America, are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR

AMERICA.

CHILE.—VALPARAISO.—TIME-SIGNAL RE-ESTABLISHED.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 47 (2107) of 1906, the Chilean Government has given further notice that the time-signal at the naval school in Valparaiso, which was destroyed by an earthquake, has been re-established.

Also that, simultaneously with the dropping of the time-ball, a gun is fired from old Fort Bueras.

Also that a clock, the dial of which is about 7 ft. square and at night lighted by electricity, has been placed on the front of the naval school building. The clock is about 248 ft. above sea-level.

CALIFORNIA.—SAN FRANCISCO LIGHT-VESSEL NO. 70.—SUBMARINE FOG-BELL TO BE ESTABLISHED.—About 15th April, 1908, a submarine fog-signal bell, which will sound during thick or foggy weather the number 7 at regular intervals—thus, 7 strokes, silent interval 4 seconds, 7 strokes, silent interval 4 seconds—will be established on board San Francisco light-vessel No. 70, stationed about 3 1/4 miles outside the bar off the entrance to San Francisco Harbour, 10 3/4 miles S. 72° 20' W. true (S.W. 7/8 W. mag.) from Fort Point Lighthouse, and about 500 ft. northward of the range line marked by Fort Point and Alcatraz lights.

Approx. position: Lat. 37° 44' 56" N., long. 122° 41' 33" W.

WASHINGTON.—TATOOSH ISLAND.—CAPE FLATTERY LIGHT-STATION.—EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHLIGHT DISCONTINUED.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 4 (147) of 1908. further notice is given that on 15th March, 1908, the exhibition of the experimental electric searchlight at Cape Flattery Light-station on Tatoosh Island, southern side of the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait, sea-coast of Washington, was discontinued.

Approx. position: Lat. 48° 23' 30" N., long. 124° 44' 06" W.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.—JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT ENTRANCE.—SWIFTSURE BANK.—WHISTLING BUOY DISCONTINUED.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 24 (958) of 1906, further notice is given that Swiftsure Bank whistling buoy, painted black and white in perpendicular stripes and marked S B in white, moored in 24 fathoms of water on Swiftsure Bank, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait, has been permanently discontinued.

Approx. position: Lat. 48° 31' 35" N., long. 124° 59' 00" W.

AFRICA.

CAPE COLONY.—TABLE BAY.—INTENDED CHANGE IN LIGHTS.—About 15th April, 1908, the sixth-order dioptric fixed red light exhibited from the lighthouse on Mouillé Point, Table Bay, Cape Colony, will be discontinued.

On the same date a fourth-order dioptric intermittent red light every 15 seconds—thus, light 10 seconds, eclipsed 5 seconds—will be exhibited from the end of the Table Bay Breakwater.

Approx. position: Lat. 33° 53' 52" S., long. 18° 26' 00" E.