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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 23

Notifying Land in Hawke's Bay Land District subject to "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1908."

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 24th March, 1909.
PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1908," and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Waipuka Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts, as from the 1st day of July, 1906.

SCHEDULE.

WAIPUKA SETTLEMENT.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, being Section No. 5, Block XVI, Te Mata Survey District, Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 670 acres 2 roods, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Waimarama 1A Block and Section 3, Block XVI, Te Mata Survey District, 10090·2 links; towards the east by Maraetotara Stream to its intersection with the west boundary of Waimarama 3A No. 3B, and by that block, 645 links, to a public road; towards the south and south-west by a public road and Section 1, Block IV, Oero Survey District, 1000 links and 11530·2 links respectively; and towards the north-west by Blocks 42 and 49, Kauranake Crown Grant District, 2519·6 links: save and except a gravel reserve (2 roods), and a road, containing 3 acres 3 roods, which intersects the said land hereinbefore described.

And as the aforesaid area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19366, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, in Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands

Defining Restricted Limits for Tairua.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 189 of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908," I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Marine, do hereby define the Tairua restricted limits within which restricted-limit steamships and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted-limit certificates are issued may ply, to be the following, viz.:-

Restricted (river) limits: Inside Paku Head.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. A. MILLAR.

Load-line Certificates issued by German Authorities to German Ships.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1909.

THE following despatch and its enclosure are published for general information.

(New Zealand.-No. 19.)

Downing Street, 25th January, 1909.

My LORD,-With reference to my predecessor's circular despatch of the 8th of February, 1907, forwarding copies of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1906, I have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship for the information of your Ministers the accompanying copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council of the 21st of November, providing for the recognition in this country of the load-line certificates issued to German ships by the German Authorities on and after the 1st of January, 1909.

I have, &c.,
CREWE.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Plunket,
K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 21st day of November, 1908.

Present:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section 445 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894," it is enacted that where the Board of Trade certify that the laws and regulations for the time being in force in any foreign country and relating to overloading and improper loading are equally effective with the provisions of that Act relating thereto, His Majesty in Council may direct that on proof of a ship of that country having complied with those laws and regulations she shall not, when in a port of the United Kingdom, be liable to detention for non-compliance with the said provisions of that Act, nor shall there arise any liability to any fine or penalty which would otherwise arise for non-compliance with those provisions:

And whereas by section 1 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1906," provision, as is more particularly therein mentioned, is made for applying to foreign ships when in ports in the United Kingdom certain sections of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894," which relate to load-line without prejudice to any direction of His Majesty in Council given under the said section 445 of the last-mentioned Act:

And whereas the Board of Trade have certified that certain statutory regulations which have been approved by the German Government relating to overloading, so far as regards the assignment of load-lines to German ships on and after 1st January, 1909, are equally effective with the corresponding regulations in force in this country respecting the assignment of load-lines to British merchant ships:

Now, therefore, His Majesty in Council doth direct that on proof that German ships have complied with the aforesaid German regulations, such ships shall not, when in ports of the United Kingdom, be liable to detention for non-compliance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts relating to overloading, nor shall there arise any liability to any fine or penalty which would otherwise arise for non-compliance with those provisions.

A. W. FITZROY.

Notice to Mariners No. 22 of 1909.

NEW POSITION FOR MAN-OF-WAR BUOY, WELLINGTON HARBOUR.

Marine Department,

Wellington, N.Z., 22nd March, 1909.

THE Wellington Harbour Board have notified that the man-of-war buoy which was removed some time ago for repairs will be relaid in the following position in 63 ft. of water at L.W., springs-viz., N. 67° E. (magnetic), distant 2,060 ft. from the S.E. extreme corner of the Glasgow Wharf.

Charts, &c. affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 803 and 1423: "New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908, Chap. v, page 145.

J. A. MILLAR.

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of Chemists' 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 chemists' 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 in the evening of Saturday at 9.30 p.m., instead of at 9 p.m.: And whereas the Hastings Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all chemists' shops within the Borough of Hastings:

Now, therefore, I, Alexander Wilson Hogg, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of "The Shops and Offices Act, 1908," do hereby direct that from and after the 29th day of March, 1909, all chemists' shops in the Borough of Hastings shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

The notice gazetted the 21st day of May, 1908, fixing the closing-hours of all shops in the borough is hereby varied accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of March, 1909.

A. W. HOGG,
Minister of Labour.