3064
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Gravel-pit in Part of Whaharangi No. 4 Block, Block XII, Rarete Survey District, Waimarino County.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, for the acquisition of a gravel-pit in Whaharangi No. 4 Block, Block XI, Rarete Survey District, Waimarino County, 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 land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Pipiriki, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said 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 of Roads, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington 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 twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through No. 6b, Tumu-Kaituna Block, 1916 G2, Block III, Maketu Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road through No. 6b, Tumu-Kaituna Block, 1916 G2, Block II, Maketu Survey District, and for the purpose of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby 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 Maketu, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said 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 of Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

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 twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

Notice to Mariners No. 92 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1908.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY.—SAN PABLO BAY.—SAN PABLO DREDGED CHANNEL BUOY NO. 13.—FURTHER INFORMATION.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 40 (1754) of 1908, further notice is given that San Pablo dredged channel buoy No. 13, in San Pablo Bay, California, is a first-class can buoy, and not a first-class spar.

WIRELESS MESSAGES REGARDING OBSTRUCTIONS.

By direction of the Bureau of Equipment the U.S. Naval wireless telegraph-stations on the Atlantic and Pacific sea-boards are now furnished daily, or as often as there is occasion to do so, by the Hydrographic Office with the latest information relating to the presence of dangerous obstructions to navigation to be transmitted to vessels at sea. Wireless messages will be sent broadcast three times at intervals of eight hours by those stations furnished with them. The hours chosen are 6 a.m., 2 p.m., and 10 p.m., local standard time. The messages will open with the word “obstruction,” after which will follow words giving the latitude and longitude (or the bearing, as the case may be), the nature of the obstruction (whether wreck on bottom, floating derelict, or iceberg), and finally the date when the obstruction was last sighted.

These messages, together with such other hydrographic information as may be furnished for the purpose, will be kept on file, and when request by wireless is made by vessels at sea for such information the same will be furnished them. Such messages will take precedence over ordinary business. The U.S. Naval wireless telegraph-stations most likely to have information of the kind above described are those located as follows:—

All the U.S. Naval wireless telegraph-stations have been instructed by the Bureau of Equipment to transmit to the hydrographic office any information coming from seaward regarding serious obstructions to navigation, and masters of passing vessels are invited to use this means of acquainting their fellow-mariners. News of this character may be communicated to the wireless stations by the International Code of Signals as well as by wireless.

The U.S. Naval wireless telegraph-stations on Charleston lightship No. 34, and at Dry Tortugas, Florida, have been abandoned.

The U.S. Naval wireless telegraph-station at Cape Henry, Va., will be suspended after 15th September, 1908, until further notice.

NOTE.—The following-named wireless telegraph-stations, and all ship installations operated by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, are open at all times for the transaction of business with the wireless-telegraph installations on board Government vessels:—

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of Pork-butcher’s Shops in the Borough of Hastings under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the pork-butcher’s shops in the Borough of Hastings, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the hours of closing of all such shops within the borough shall be as follows: Wednesdays, 1 p.m.; Satur-