APRIL 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1329

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1912.

MOTUEKA HARBOUR. — HARBOUR-CONSTRUCTION WORKS. — DREDGER AND MOORING-PILES AT ENTRANCE AND AT ENTRANCE TO MOUTERE LAGOON.

Marine Department.
Wellington, N.Z., 16th April, 1912.

THE Motueka Harbour Board have notified that during the progress of dredging a new channel to the Moutere Lagoon dredging operations will be commenced at once right in the fairway to Motueka Harbour, and one dredge-mooring will be stretched across the channel. The dredge will show at night-time two red lights, in a vertical line one over the other, not less than 6 ft. apart, as well as the usual anchor-lights, and a watchman will be on duty. It is also notified that three mooring-piles will be driven near the approach to Motueka Harbour, situated as follows: Just outside or at the harbour-entrance one pile (which is used for the dredge-mooring) will be 50 fathoms distant on the starboard hand from the line of leading lights and beacons, one pile 50 fathoms distant on the port hand, and one pile 95 fathoms distant on the port hand situated on the south bank of the Moutere River. These piles will be marked by white beacons, and white lights will be hoisted at night.

Yachtsmen, boatmen, and others entering the North Channel will need to avoid other mooring-piles and dredge mooring-cables at the entrance to Moutere Lagoon.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2616; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter vi, page 192.

GEO. LAURENSON.

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Notice fixing Closing-hours of Tobacconists’, Hairdressers’, and Stationers’ Shops in the Borough of Waimate under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’, hairdressers’, and stationers’ shops, combined and separately, in the Borough of Waimate, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8 p.m.; Thursdays, 1 p.m.; Saturdays, 10.30 p.m.: And whereas the Waimate Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’, hairdressers’ and stationers’ shops, combined and separately, within the Borough of Waimate: Now, therefore, I, George Laurensen, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 22nd day of April, 1912, all such shops in the Borough of Waimate shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1912.

GEO. LAURENSON,
Minister of Labour.

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Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 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 ROBERT DORRIEN KIRBY.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend DAVID MARTIN.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend JAMES GOOD GIBSON.

Baptists.

The Reverend JOSEPH CARLISLE.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend ERNEST T. BLISS.
The Reverend JAMES CHARTERS.
The Reverend JOHN F. DOHERTY.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that the names of the undermentioned have been withdrawn from the List of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, for the year 1912:—

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend JOSEPH CARLISLE.
The Reverend FRANK ALLAN FAULKES.
The Reverend HERMAN FOSTON.
The Reverend ALBERT HERBERT FOWLES.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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Notice of Sitting of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Leases Commission.

Wellington, 17th April, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that a sitting of the Commissioners appointed to deal with the several references set out in the Commission appearing on page 1281 of the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th April, 1912, will be held at the Courthouse, Hawera, on Wednesday, the 8th day of May, 1912, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

ALEX. McARTHUR,
Chairman.

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Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, 1912, beginning on or about the 18th day of the month; that a Junior National Scholarship and Junior Free Place Examination (commonly known as the December Examination) will be held on or about the 28th and 29th November, 1912; and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1913, beginning on or about the 6th day of the month.

With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the Intermediate Examination, being the Special Examination for a senior free place qualification in secondary schools and district high schools and for the First Examination of pupil-teachers.

With the Junior National Scholarship Examination will be taken the Junior Free Place Examination (including the examination for junior free places in technical schools).

Entries for Junior National Scholarships and Junior Free Places, and for the First Examination of pupil-teachers, must be made through the principals or head teachers of the schools attended, and will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards not later than the 16th September, 1912. Junior Scholarship and Junior Free Place entries received after that date can be accepted only with the consent of the Education Department, which, if satisfied in any special case that there has been reasonable ground for the delay, may allow not more than seven days of grace.

Late entries for the First Examination of pupil-teachers can be accepted only under conditions applicable to the Intermediate Examination.

Entries for the Civil Service Junior and Intermediate Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 16th September, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 23rd September, 1912.

Entries for the January examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 15th October, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October, 1912.

For Scholarship and Free Place entries, and for entrance to the First Examination of pupil-teachers, no entrance-fee (other than late fee) is payable.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may be obtained later from the office of any Education Board or of the Education Department.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools,