2456

from Cape St. Albans, Backstairs Passage, Kangaroo Island.
The characteristics of the light will be as follows: A fixed
white light of the fourth (4th) order, showing a red sector
between the bearings of east by north to south. The light
will be shown from a white masonry tower, and its focal
plane will be about 120 feet above high water.
Range of visibility, seventeen (17) miles.
This affects Admiralty Chart 2389A.
ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 10th August, 1908.

United States Act regarding Foreign Vessels engaged in
Trade to the Philippine Islands.

Marine Department,
Wellington. 11th September, 1908.
THE following despatch and its enclosure are published
for general information.
J. A. MILLAR
(New Zealand, No. 125.)
Downing Street, 17th July, 1908.
My LORD,—With reference to my despatch No. 112 of the
19th of June, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the
information of your Ministers, copy of the Act passed by the
United States Congress whereby foreign vessels are permitted
to engage in the trade between the United States and
the Philippine Islands.
I have, &c.,
CREWE.
Governor the Right Honourable Lord Plunket,
K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.
PUBLIC, No. 103.—S. 5262.
An Act to repeal an Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen
hundred and six, entitled “An Act to regulate shipping
in trade between ports of the United States and ports
or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or
places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes,” and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled:
That, until Congress shall have authorised the registry as
vessels of the United States of vessels owned in the Philippine
Islands, the Government of the Philippine Islands is
hereby authorised to adopt from time to time and enforce
regulations governing the transportation of merchandise
and passengers between ports or places in the Philippine
Archipelago.
Section 2. That on and after the passage of this Act the
same tonnage taxes shall be levied, collected, and paid upon
all foreign vessels coming into the United States from the
Philippine Islands which are required by law to be levied,
collected, and paid upon vessels coming into the United
States from foreign countries.
Section 3. That the provisions of law restricting to vessels
of the United States the transportation of passengers and
merchandise, directly or indirectly, from one port of the
United States to another port of the United States shall
not be applicable to foreign vessels engaging in trade between
the Philippine Islands and the United States.
Section 4. That the Philippine Commission shall be
authorised and empowered to issue licenses to engage in
lighterage or other exclusively harbour business to vessels
or other craft actually engaged in such business at the date
of the passage of this Act, and to vessels or other craft built
in the Philippine Islands or in the United States and owned
by citizens of the United States or by inhabitants of the
Philippine Islands.
Section 5. That such of the navigation laws of the United
States as are in force in the Philippine Islands in regard to
vessels arriving in the Philippine Islands from the mainland territory and other insular possessions of the United
States shall continue to be administered by the proper
officials of the Government of the Philippine Islands.
Section 6. That the Act entitled “An Act to regulate
shipping in trade between ports of the United States and
ports or places in the Philippine Islands, between ports or
places in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,”
approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this
Act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, April 29th, 1908.
No. 71
Notice fixing Closing-hours of Watchmakers’, Jewellers’, &c.,
Shops in the City of Christchurch under the Shops and Offices
Act.
WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a
majority of the occupiers of all the shops selling
or exposing for sale watches, clocks, silver and electroplated goods, jewellery, and spectacles (any one of which
exceeds the value of 3s.) in the City of Christchurch,
has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops
in the city shall be closed at the following hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6 p.m.;
Thursday at 1 p.m., except on such occasion as a public
holiday is observed on a different day of the week, when
such holiday may be observed in lieu of the statutory half-holiday; Saturday at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions:
Saturday immediately preceding Christmas, 11 p.m.; Christmas Eve, 11 p.m.; Saturday immediately preceding New
Year’s Eve, 11 p.m.; and New Year’s Eve, 11 p.m.: And
whereas the Christchurch City Council has certified that
the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of
the occupiers of shops selling or exposing for sale watches,
clocks, silver and electroplated goods, jewellery, and
spectacles (any one of which exceeds the value of 3s.)
within the city:
Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, the Minister of
Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of “The Shops and
Offices Act, 1908,” do hereby direct that from and after the
21st day of September, 1908, all shops in the trades abovementioned in the City of Christchurch shall be closed in
accordance with such requisition.
Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of September, 1908.
J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.
Notice of Date of Examination.
Education Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior
Examination and a Junior National Scholarship
and Free Place Examination will be held in December,
1908, beginning on or about the 9th day of the month;
and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an
examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D
will be held in January, 1909, beginning on or about the
5th day of the month.
The Civil Service Junior Examination is a qualifying examination for senior free places in secondary schools and
district high schools; also it is the First Examination for
pupil-teachers.
With the Junior National Scholarship examination will
be taken the Junior Free Place examination (including the
examination for junior free places in technical schools), and
candidates may qualify for junior free places in either
examination.
Entries for Junior National Scholarships and for Junior
and Senior Free Places must be made through the principals
or head teachers of the schools attended, and will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards not later than the
30th September, 1908.
Entries for other examinations will be received by the
Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 30th
September, 1908, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the
ordinary fee, until the 15th October, 1908.
All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may
be obtained later from the office of any Education Board or
of the Education Department.
Candidates for Senior National Scholarships are reminded
that, in forwarding to the University authorities their application to be admitted to the examination for a Junior
University Scholarship, they must at the same time give
notice of their intention to compete for a Senior National
Scholarship.
Candidates who have to pass in elementary handwork
for the teachers’ certificate are examined at various times
and places. Those who desire to be examined in good time
in this subject are recommended to apply early.
GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools