Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorised to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—
Johnston, Albert John Wilkins, Postmaster, Naseby.
Nicholas, Charles Edmund, Postmaster, Stratford.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Forbidding Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Sir Robert Bear and A. K. Smith, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” that no money-order in favour of the said persons shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said persons (either by their own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to either of such addresses without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.
Sir Robert Bear, Professor of Music, Pitt Street, Sydney.
A. K. Smith, 16 Park Street, Sydney.
Dated this 15th day of June, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Authorising the Laying-off of Mapau Road, in the Town of Paritea, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 14th June, 1909.
IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 15 of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, Joseph George Ward, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Mapau Road, in the Town of Paritea, Southland Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft., instead of 99 ft.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners No. 41 of 1909.
BELL BUOY AT ENTRANCE TO TAURANGA HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th June, 1909.
NOTICE is hereby given that a bell buoy, painted black, has been placed one cable’s length N.N.W. of the black buoy at entrance to Tauranga Harbour. Vessels must be careful to keep in channel when abreast of shoal between the bell buoy and Stony Point beacon.
The black buoy has been taken up.
Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 3332 and Plan 2521; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap. iv, page 108.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 42 of 1909.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th June, 1909.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Navigation, Sydney, and from the Harbourmaster, Fremantle, are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

New South Wales.
Increase of Power of Point Perpendicular Light, Jervis Bay.
Notice is hereby given that an incandescent Welsbach mantle lamp, using petroleum vapour, is now installed in this lighthouse, having been first displayed on the 17th March last. This improved light is of approximately 1,200-candle power, the former oil light having been about 800 (intrinsic candle-power without effect of lens). The character of the light remains the same—viz., three short successive flashes every twenty minutes; but the light will be seen at a greater distance in hazy weather.
By order of the Superintendent.
NORMAN C. LOCKHART,
Department of Navigation, Secretary.
Sydney, 5th May, 1909.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—SOUTH COAST.
Hopetoun Harbour.
Notice is hereby given that on and after the 1st May, 1909, an unwatched dioptric light of fifth order will be exhibited from an open braced steel tower erected on the high ground at shore end of the Hopetoun Jetty, in latitude 33 deg. 57 min. south, longitude 120 deg. 9 min. east.
The height of focal plane above high water will be 72 ft. The light will be fixed white, and visible all round the horizon in clear weather for a distance of fourteen miles.
Charts affected: No. 1059, Doubtful Island Bay to Great Australian Bight; No. 2973, Mary Ann Haven.
C. J. IRVINE,
Chief Harbourmaster.
Department of Harbour and Lights,
Fremantle, 14th April, 1909.

Defining Restricted Limits for Herekino.
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 Herekino 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 Herekino Bar.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine.
J. A. MILLAR.

Tenders.
Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th June, 1909.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.
R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.
PLATES FOR COAL-TUBS FOR POINT ELIZABETH No. 2 COLLIERY.
Accepted.
£ s. d.
J. Johnston and Sons (Limited), Invercargill 2,050 0 0
Declined.
Gas and Water Plant Company (Limited), 2,550 0 0 Auckland
Norman Heath and Co., Wellington .. 3,100 0 0
John Duthie and Co., Wellington .. 2,354 10 0
John Lysaght and Co., Wellington .. 3,000 0 0
George Griffiths, Westport .. .. 3,400 0 0
Palmer Engineering Company, Wellington .. 2,088 0 0
Briscoe and Co., Wellington .. .. 2,333 6 8
Richardson and Blair, Wellington .. 2,249 0 0
Cooper, Duncan, and Co., Christchurch .. 2,650 0 0
Drummond and Co., Dunedin .. 2,025 0 0
Andersons Limited, Christchurch .. 3,358 0 0
A. Hadecke, Rangiora .. .. .. 3,246 10 0
Dispatch Foundry Company, Greymouth .. 2,400 0 0
A. and T. Burt, Dunedin .. .. .. 3,535 15 0
IRONWORK FOR COAL-TUBS FOR POINT ELIZABETH No. 2 COLLIERY.
Accepted.
£ s. d.
Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company, 370 5 6 Nelson
Declined.
Norman Heath and Co., Wellington .. 520 0 0
Crabtree and Sons, Wellington .. .. 495 0 0
G. Griffiths, Westport .. .. .. 450 0 0
Palmer Engineering Company, Wellington.. 500 0 0
Middleton and Co., Greymouth .. .. 566 5 0
Cooper, Duncan, and Co., Christchurch .. 610 0 0
Andersons Limited, Christchurch .. .. 555 10 0
A. Hadecke, Rangiora .. .. .. 683 16 8
Dispatch Foundry Company, Nelson .. 437 10 0
A. and T. Burt, Dunedin .. .. .. 598 0 0
Johnston and Sons, Invercargill .. .. 603 2 6
Southland Implement and Engineering Company, Invercargill 489 0 0