July 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1957

Notice to Mariners No. 53 of 1909.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th July, 1909.

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

J. A. MILLAR.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

STRAIT OF GEORGIA.—BURRARD INLET.—GREY POINT.—BELL BUOY REPLACED BY GAS AND BELL BUOY.—The Canadian Government has given notice that the bell buoy heretofore moored about 1¼ miles N. 3° W. from Grey Point, Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, has been replaced by a combined gas and bell buoy moored in the same position. The buoy is of steel, cylindrical in shape, painted red, and surmounted by a pyramidal steel frame supporting the bell and lantern.

The light shown is intermittent white; the illuminant acetylene, generated automatically.

The bell is rung by the motion of the buoy on the waves.

Approx. position: Lat. 49° 17′ 03″ N., long. 123° 15′ 15″ W.

Hydrographic Office Charts.—Nos. 903 and 1768.

Coast Survey Charts.—Nos. S, 7000, 6300, and 6400.

H.O. Light List, Vol. i, 1909, No. 1301A.

U.S. Lighthouse Board List of Lights on the Pacific Coast, 1908, page 90.

H.O. Publication No. 96, the Coast of British Columbia, 1907, page 228.

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

NEW GUINEA.—NORTH COAST.—FRIEDRICH WILHELM HARBOUR.—CHANGE IN LIGHTS.—The German Government has given notice that the rear range light, on the south-eastern point of Beliao Island, Friedrich Wilhelm Harbour, New Guinea, has been changed from fixed red to fixed white. The light is a lens-lantern light, exhibited 33 ft. above high water and 21 ft. above the ground from a white iron truss 33 ft. high, and is visible 8 miles.

The front range light, on Schering Point, has been changed from fixed white to fixed red. The light is a lens-lantern light, exhibited 26 ft. above high water and 16½ ft. above the ground from a white iron truss 19½ ft. high, and is visible 2 miles.

Approx. position of front light: Lat. 5° 12′ 48″ S., long. 145° 49′ 14″ E.

The lights are visible over an arc of 180° to seaward.

Hydrographic Office Charts.—No. 826A.

British Admiralty Charts issued to U.S. Vessels.—Nos. 2766 and 1084.

H.O. Light List, Vol. ii, 1907, Nos. 872 and 873.

Pacific Islands, Vol. i, 1908, page 209.

BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO.—NEW IRELAND.—KAWIENG HARBOUR.—COLOUR OF LIGHT.—The German Government has given notice that the colour of the fixed light in Kawieng Harbour, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, is white, and not red as shown on the charts and stated in the Light List and Sailing Directions.

The light is exhibited only when vessels are in the harbour.

Approx. position: Lat. 2° 34′ 24″ S., long. 150° 47′ 48″ E.

Hydrographic Office Charts.—No. 825A.

British Admiralty Charts issued to U.S. Vessels.—Nos. 2766, 764, and 55.

H.O. Light List, Vol. ii, 1907, No. 876.

Pacific Islands, Vol. i, 1908, page 357.

Notice to Mariners No. 54 of 1909.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th July, 1909.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Department of Navigation, Sydney, is published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

LEADING-LIGHTS, KIAMA.

Notice is hereby given that leading-lights have been erected for the guidance of shipping into the Port of Kiama, on the southern coast of this State. The lights are red in colour, and are about 425 ft. apart, one being situated on the southern end of the wharf, and the other on the shore. The lower light on the wharf is 16 ft. 9 in. and the upper light 23 ft. 9 in. above high water. The bearing of the lights when in line is about south 31° west. The lights are visible in clear weather about 6 miles.

By order of the Superintendent.

NORMAN C. LOCKHART,
Secretary.

Department of Navigation,
Sydney, 4th June, 1909.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of all Shops in the Borough of Kumara under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Borough of Kumara, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops within the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Week-nights, with the exception of Saturday, 6 o’clock p.m., and Saturday, 9 o’clock p.m.: And whereas the Kumara Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all shops within the Borough of Kumara:

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 2nd day of August, 1909, all shops in the Borough of Kumara shall be closed at 6 o’clock p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; at 1 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday (the statutory half-holiday); and 9 o’clock p.m. on Saturday.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of July, 1909.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notice of Intention to take Lands for a Drain through Karamu Reserve, Block XVI, Heretaunga 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 drain through Karamu Reserve, Block XVI, Heretaunga Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said drain and of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Hastings, 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 lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work, or to the taking of such lands, 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.

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Agreement for Grant of Right of Way in favour of Samuel Walton Smeeton over Courthouse Land assented to.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the 6th day of March, 1908, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, all that piece of land, containing 1 rood 11·45 perches, portions of Allotments 28 and 29, Section 4, City of Auckland, was taken for the purposes of a Courthouse: And whereas Samuel Walton Smeeton, of Mount Eden, Auckland, grocer, as trustee for Harriet Lucy Rout, of Onehunga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, widow, under deed dated the 15th day of October, 1908, registered, under No. 196155, in the Land and Deeds Registry Office, Auckland, is entitled to compensation in respect of his freehold interest in the said land: And whereas the Minister of Public Works has agreed to grant to the said