Mar. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1091

Position of Transit Instrument.

The adopted position of the transit instrument at the Hector Observatory, Wellington, is latitude 41° 17′ 3·76″ south, longitude 11h. 39m. 4·27s. 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.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 803 and 1423; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter v, page 148; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1912, pages 209 and 328.

J. A. MILLAR.

Contract for Supply of Buoys.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th March, 1912.

THE following tenders have been received for making and supplying four iron buoys for this department:—

Accepted.

£ s. d.
Stevenson and Cook, Port Chalmers … 149 0 0

Declined.

John McGregor and Co., Dunedin … 150 0 0
Vulcan Foundry, Napier … 160 0 0
Gardner and Co. (Limited), Port Chalmers … 169 16 0
J. J. Niven and Co. (Limited), Napier … 174 0 0
E. J. Ruddick, Addington … 197 6 0
S. Luke and Co. (Limited), Wellington … 198 10 0
Cossens and Black (Limited), Dunedin … 248 6 0
W. Cable and Co. (Limited), Wellington … 250 0 0
Andersons (Limited), Christchurch … 257 0 0

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Pork-butchers’ Shops in the Borough of Parnell under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops in the Borough of Parnell, has been forwarded to me desiring that all such shops shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, at 9 o’clock p.m.; Wednesday, 1 o’clock p.m.; and Saturday, 11 o’clock p.m., excepting on any day previous to a public holiday, when the closing-hour shall be the same as Saturday, 11 o’clock p.m.: And whereas the Parnell Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops within the Borough of Parnell:

Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 25th day of March, 1912, all pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops in the Borough of Parnell shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1912.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Pork-butchers’ Shops in the City of Auckland under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops in the City of Auckland, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9 o’clock p.m.; Wednesday, 1 o’clock p.m.; and Saturday, 11 o’clock p.m., excepting on any day previous to a public holiday, when the closing-hour shall be the same as Saturday, 11 o’clock p.m.: And whereas the Auckland City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops within the City of Auckland:

Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 25th day of March, 1912, all pork-butchers’ and purveyors of cooked meats’ shops in the City of Auckland shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1912.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Sections 1 and 8, Block III, Waimana Survey District, Auckland Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 14 of the Land Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 3rd day of October, 1911, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 21st day of June, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said areas are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington. (Auckland Plan 16349, blue.)

Dated this 16th day of March, 1912.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Blocks III, VI, and VII, Rotoiti, and Block XV, Maketu Survey Districts.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of the Public Works Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 1st day of February, 1909, laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 3rd day of December, 1907.

SCHEDULE.