MAY 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1501

Notifying Land in the Otago Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Officer of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 29th April, 1912.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Spottis Creek Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 1st March, 1912.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Otago Land District, containing in the aggregate by admeasurement 31 acres and 15 perches, more or less, and being Section 5 and parts of Section 6, Block V, Cardrona Survey District. Commencing at the north-west corner of Section 6, and bounded thence on the north-east by Crown lands, 1454·4 links; thence on the south-east by Crown lands, 435·8 links; across a road-line, 102 links; and bounded thence on the north-north-east by the said road-line, 1641·6 links; thence towards the east-south-east by Crown lands, 1100·8 links; thence towards the south-south-west by Crown lands, 1857 links; thence towards the west-north-west by Crown lands and a road, 887·9 links; thence across the said road in a north-west direction, 102 links; and bounded thence on the south-west by Crown lands, 1183·9 links; thence towards the north-west by Crown lands, 789·4 links, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: excepting out of the said boundaries those portions of Section 6 coloured brown on said plan which have been already taken for the purpose of a public road: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked S. No. 459, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Consent to an exchange of Crown Land for Native Land.

WHEREAS by Part XIX of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided, inter alia, that exchanges of Crown land for Native land must be effected through the Native Land Purchase Board: And whereas it is expedient that the exchange set out in the Schedule hereto should be effected:

Now, therefore, the Native Land Purchase Board, in pursuance of the powers conferred by Part XIX of the Native Land Act, 1909, doth hereby consent to such exchange.

And it is hereby declared that this notice, made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Native Land Purchase Board.

SCHEDULE.

NATIVE LAND.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 250 acres, more or less, being portion of Kopua 1s Section 2, bounded on the north and west by Kopua 1r, on the east by road, and on the south by Kopua 1s Section 2, situated in Blocks VI, VII, X, XI, Pirongia Survey District, in exchange for

CROWN LAND.

All those parcels of land, containing 249 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less, part being Section 11, Block XII, Pirongia Survey District, bounded on the north by Kopua 1b2, on the east by Kopua 1a, on the south by Parihoro Block, and on the west by a Native reserve and Moakuraru Stream, containing 27 acres 1 rood 10 perches; part also being Section 16, Block VII, Pirongia Survey District, containing 206 acres 2 roods, bounded on the north by the Teta hi Road, on the east by Section 17, on the south by Mangakahua Road, and on the west by Section 15; together with that portion of land containing 15 acres 2 roods 20 perches, in Block XI, Pirongia Survey District, bounded on the south by Kopua 1s Section 2, and on the north and west by Ngakoahia Stream.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of February, 1912.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1912.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 25th March, 1895, and the 13th June, 1904, under the Electric Lines Act, 1884, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, and the 16th June, 1904, respectively, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving 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 authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

EMPSON, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, Chief Postmaster, Hokitika.

KING, THOMAS THEODORE, Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.

NORTHCROFT, ERNEST, Chief Postmaster, Napier.

PICKETT, JOHN JOSEPH, Chief Postmaster, Thames.

RULE, JAMES GORTHORN, Postmaster, Gore.

ST. GEORGE, DOUGLAS, Chief Postmaster, Greymouth.

TALBOT, ALFRED JAMES CHARLES, Acting Officer in Charge, Christchurch.

WHELAN, CHARLES, Chief Postmaster, Blenheim.

WYATT, HENRY PERCY DE KRUGER, Assistant Officer in Charge, Wellington.

H. G. ELL,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Notice to Mariners No. 35 of 1912.

ROCK NEAR ENTRANCE TO PATERSON INLET, STEWART ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 22nd April, 1912.

THE following Notice to Mariners appears in the abstract of monthly Notices to Mariners issued by the Board of Trade:—

“A rock carrying 4 fathoms, usually indicated by tide rips, exists in the approach to Paterson Inlet, 6¼ cables 31° (N. 12° E. mag.) from the north extreme of Fish Rock (46° 52′ S., 168° 11¾′ E.), and 307° (N. 72° W. mag.) from the S.W. extreme of Boat Refuge Island. Note.—‘Position approx.’ has been charted against this rock.”

As no report has been made to this Department of the existence of this rock, inquiry has, since the receipt of the Board of Trade notice, been made, from which it appears that the existence of the rock has been known for several years. A survey of the rock will be made by the “Hinemoa” in order to obtain further particulars regarding it.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart 2553; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ix, pages 281–2.

GEO. LAURENSON.

Notice to Mariners No. 36 of 1912.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 22nd April, 1912.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Board of Trade, are published for general information.

GEO. LAURENSON.

EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, ETC.

SINGAPORE STRAIT.—GELAM STRAIT.—A shoal, carrying 2½ fms., is reported to exist in 0° 59¼′ N., 103° 21½′ E., 2 miles 347° (N. 14° W. mag.) from the srn. summit of Pulo Babi. March.

SINGAPORE MAIN STRAIT.—TREE ISL.—An occ. red lt., vis. 2 secs., ecl. 2 secs., elev. 36 ft., R. 10 miles, is exh. from a white iron-frame lt.-h., in 1° 9¼′ N., 103° 39¼′ E., on the N.E. edge of Tree Isl. (Nipa) Reef. March.

BILLITON ISL.—TANJONG SIANTU.—A reef, carrying 4¼ fms., exists in 2° 30½′ S., 107° 48¼′ E., 2¼ miles 298° (N. 63° W. mag.) from the N. extr. of Tanjong Siantu. March.

CHINA SEA, ETC.

CHUSAN ARCHIP.—STEEP ISL.—The fog-gun on this isl. (30° 12½′ N., 122° 35′ E.) has been replaced by a fog-siren giving 2 blasts every 1½ mins.—blast 6 secs., silence