May 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1741

Notice to Mariners No. 56 of 1913.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th May, 1913.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Kangaroo Island.—Nepean Bay.

MASTERS of vessels and others are hereby cautioned against anchoring on or near the line of the telegraph cable between the bell buoy and Kingscote.

The cable passes close to the bell buoy, thence in an approximately straight line about N. 74° W. mag., 291° true, to the green perch buoy, and lands about 100 yards north of the jetty.

Should a vessel anchor near the cable a square blue flag will be shown from the telegraph-station at Kingscote, signifying that her position must be shifted immediately.

Approximate position of bell buoy: Lat. 35° 41½′ S., long. 137° 42¼′ E.

This affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 2389A and 3641.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board and Controller of Harbours.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 17th March, 1913.

Notice to Mariners No. 57 of 1913.

GISBORNE HARBOUR.—CAUTION re BREAKWATER EXTENSION.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st May, 1913.

SHIPMASTERS and others are hereby notified not to turn sharp round the end of the Breakwater when entering or leaving the Inner Harbour, as the Breakwater is being extended 500 ft. from the end of the present breakwater, on which line cement blocks are being deposited. The end of this extension is marked by a small red buoy.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 3321 and 3343; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter iv, page 127.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Surveyor Licensed.

The Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 21st May, 1913.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a license under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, has been issued by the Surveyors’ Board to the following surveyor:—

Surveyor. Address.
FELIX HERBERT WATERS .. Karama, Nelson.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that John Charles Snelling, formerly of 6 Crusoe Road, Mitcham, in the County of Surrey, England, now of 10 Crieff Road, Wandsworth, Surrey aforesaid, has made application for restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improved machine for producing slabs for building purposes,” numbered 26249, and bearing date the 22nd July, 1908, which expired on the 22nd July, 1912, owing to the non-payment or the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 17th June, 1913, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned examinations will be held on the dates specified in each case:—

Intermediate Competitive (Education Board Senior Scholarship Examination): On or about 18th November, 1913, and following days.

Intermediate Non-competitive, for Senior Free Places in Secondary Schools and District High Schools and for the First Examination of Pupil-teachers: On or about 18th November, 1913, and following days.

Junior National Scholarship: On or about the 27th and 28th November, 1913.

Junior Free Place (including the examination for Junior Free Places in Technical Schools): On or about the 27th and 28th November, 1913.

Teachers’ Certificate Examinations, Class C and Class D: On or about the 5th January, 1914, and following days.

NOTE.—The Civil Service Junior (Public Service Entrance) Examination being now confined exclusively to candidates desirous of entering the Public Service, Scholarship candidates who are required by the various scholarship regulations to take this examination will now enter as Intermediate Competitive candidates.

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 15th September, 1913. 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 Intermediate Competitive and Non-competitive Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, until the 15th September, 1913, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 22nd September, 1913.

Entries for the Teachers’ C and D Certificate Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, until the 15th October, 1913, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October, 1913.

For Scholarship and Free Place entries, and for entrance to the First Examination of Pupil-teachers, no entrance fee is payable.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may be obtained after 1st July from the office of any Education Board or of the Education Department.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1914, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1915.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES COLVIN,
Minister of Mines.