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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Character of light: Acetylene gas, flashing, white light,
showing one flash every three seconds.
Illuminated arc: The whole horizon.
Distance visible: Eight nautical miles in clear weather.
Depth of water: About 2½ fathoms at L.W.S.T.
Magnetic bearings taken from the buoy: Storm-signal
post, N. 48° 15′ W.; Shinagawa Lighthouse, N. 12° 15′ W.

COUNT HAYASHI TADASU,
Minister of State for Communications.
Tokyo, 26th June, 1912.

Defining River and Extended-river Limits for Otago Harbour.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the 29th day of August,
1912, river and extended-river limits for Otago
Harbour were defined: And whereas it is desirable to alter
such limits:

Now, therefore, I, Francis Marion Bates Fisher, Minister
of Marine, do hereby revoke the limits defined by the said
Warrant of the 29th day of August, 1912, and do hereby
define the Otago Harbour limits within which restricted-
limits steamships and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, elec-
tricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to
which restricted-limits certificates are issued, may ply to be
those set forth herein, and I do divide such limits into river
and extended-river limits.

River Limits.—Inside Taiaroa Head.

Extended-river Limits for Fishing-boats only.—Within a
radius of thirty miles from Taiaroa Head Lighthouse.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 5th day of Sep-
tember, 1912.

F. M. B. FISHER.

Permits to import Opium.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 10th September, 1912.

IT is hereby notified for public information that permits
to import opium in forms which though not suitable
for smoking may be made suitable have been granted to
the following persons and firms, subject to the provisions of
the Opium Act, 1908, the Opium Amendment Act, 1910, and
the regulations made thereunder:—

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block V, Tekoa Survey
District, for Road Purposes.

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 road
in Block V, Tekoa Survey District, and for the purposes
of such public work the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby fur-
ther given that the plan of the land so required to be taken
is deposited in the post-office at Upper Waiau, and is there
open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the
execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said
land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to
the execution of such public work or to the taking of
such land, 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, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land required to be taken:—

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is 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 5th day of Sep-
tember, 1912.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—HERBERT SOLOMON, Esq., of Adelaide, South
Australia, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South
Australia, has this day been appointed by His Honour the
Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand in South Australia, under the 47th section of
the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering
and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in
the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 1912.

G. S. CLARK,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No 34.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 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 in-
tituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of
an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act
is published for general information:—

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

The Reverend NOEL ELLIOT HAWDON, M.A.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 7th September, 1912.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge
receipt of £15, “Unpaid Income-tax,” sent to the
Commissioner of Taxes from some person unknown at
Palmerston North.

J. W. POYNTON,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1912.

THE J. G. Carr Memorial Tent No. 19, situated at Re-
muera, Auckland, is registered as a branch of the New
Zealand District, No. 84, Independent Order of Rechabites,
Salford Unity, Friendly Society, under the Friendly
Societies Act, 1909, this 5th day of September, 1912.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1912.

THE Loyal Waitoa Lodge, No. 8307, situated at Waitoa,
is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of
the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Inde-
pendent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society, under the
Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 7th day of September,
1912.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.