Feb. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 933

New Zealand Time Service Arrangements.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th February, 1912.

THE following notification is published for general information.

C. E. ADAMS,
Government Astronomer.

POSITION OF TRANSIT INSTRUMENT.

THE adopted position of the Transit Instrument at the Hector Observatory, Wellington, is latitude 41° 17′ 3·76″ south, longitude 11 h. 39 m. 4·27 s. east of Greenwich; height above 1909 mean sea-level, 418 ft.

TIME SERVICE.—CHRONOMETER RATING NOTICE.

1. At 1 p.m. on chronometer rating-days a galvanometer signal for rating chronometers will be sent from the observatory to the Public Telegraph Office, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, and to the Dominion Museum, Wellington. The needle will move at 1 p.m. exactly of New Zealand standard mean time, when a chronometer set to Greenwich mean time should show 13 h. 30 m. Any difference will be the error of the chronometer on Greenwich mean time.

2. At 9 p.m. on chronometer rating-days correct time will also be signalled from the observatory by means of electric lights. A green light will be switched on at about 8.45 p.m., a red one at about 8.55 p.m., and a white one at about 8.59 p.m., and all the lights will be switched off at 9 p.m. exactly of New Zealand standard mean time. The preparatory switching-on of the lights must be considered as only approximately correct, and must not be used for rating chronometers. The correct time for rating will be given by switching off the lights simultaneously at 9 p.m.

Notification of chronometer rating-days is given in the Wellington daily newspapers.

On application to the Post and Telegraph Department arrangements can usually be made to send a galvanometer signal giving correct time at 1 p.m. to any telegraph-office in the Dominion.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 28th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 684, situated at Dunedin, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the notification hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

J. LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1912.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend WILLIAM DAVID STUART OGDEN.

Baptists.

The Reverend ALFRED NORTH.
The Reverend W. WOOLLEY.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 31A, Block IV, Aparima Hundred, Southland Land District, will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 29th day of May, 1912.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Sections 10A, and 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 47, 48, and 49, Block XXIV, Invercargill Hundred, Southland Land District, are open for sale or selection under the said Act; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 22nd day of May, 1912.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 26th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, the 12th day of April, 1912, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIROA COUNTY.—WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Situated on the Wairoa–Waikaremoana coach-road, about twenty miles from Frasertown. Mostly hilly land, with a few small easy sloping terraces, of a total area of about 10 acres that would be ploughable. Land is covered with fern and manuka scrub.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. One-half year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. No declaration is required. Residence and improvements are not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on date of sale, from which date the rent will commence.

4. The lease shall be for the term of years specified above, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall have the right to use the land comprised in the lease for grazing purposes only.

8. The lessee shall have no right to fell or remove any timber, whether standing or lying on the land.

9. All persons duly authorized in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for such purposes as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may deem expedient.

10. Licenses may be issued at any time during the currency of the lease to the lessee or other persons to cut and remove either standing or felled timber without the payment of compensation to the lessee.

11. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, ragwort, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

12. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

13. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

The reserve is described for the general information of intending selectors, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description. Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.