Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2653

Notice to Mariners No. 89 of 1913.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th August, 1913.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Marine Department, Brisbane, Queensland, and from the Port Officer, Melbourne, Victoria, are published for general information.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

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QUEENSLAND.

Australia.—North Coast.—Torres Strait, Western Entrance.—Prince of Wales Channel.

NOTICE is hereby given that the commander of H.M.S. “Fantome” reports that, while searching for the shoal on which the s.s. “Aparima” struck, he found several shoal patches to the southward of Sunk Reefs. The southernmost dangers extend 5 cables south of the Sunk Reefs, and between them and these reefs the bottom is very uneven.

The positions of the shoal patches are as follows:—

15-ft. patch N. 25° W. mag., 1·95 miles from Goode Island Lighthouse.

19-ft. patch N. 25° W. mag., 1·65 miles from Goode Island Lighthouse.

19-ft. patch N. 20° W. mag., 1·55 miles from Goode Island Lighthouse.

13-ft. patch N. 13° W. mag., 1·6 miles from Goode Island Lighthouse.

To clear these dangers Hammond Rock should not be brought to the eastward of N. 62° E. mag.

Charts affected: Nos. 437, 691, 2354, and 2375; Australia Directory, Volume ii.

JOHN MACKAY,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 15th July, 1913.

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VICTORIA.

Light, Sunday Island.—Port Albert.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners dated 1st August, 1907, page 113, mariners and others are hereby notified that on and after 1st September, 1913, the fixed white light shown from the flagstaff at the pilot-station at Sunday Island will be removed and re-established on a piled beacon erected on the mud flats about one mile south-westward of the pilot-station.

The light will show an all-round fixed white light, and will be visible about 4 miles in clear weather.

Such light will not in any way mark the channel, but is only for the guidance of fishermen and others within Port Albert.

As the shoals of the coast at the entrance to Port Albert extend for over two (2) miles off shore, masters of vessels making a course close to the coast in such locality, and sighting the light, should at once haul out to safer waters.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 27th June, 1913.

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Notice to Mariners No. 91 of 1913.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—FOG-HORN, RAILWAY WHARF.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th August, 1913.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that a motor siren fog-horn, giving a blast of four seconds duration every two minutes, has been installed immediately under the harbour light at the end of the Railway Wharf, and will be ready for use on and after Monday, 18th instant.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1896 and 1970; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 38.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

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Notice to Mariners No. 92 of 1913.

LYTTELTON HARBOUR ENTRANCE.—Re WHITE PATCH ON GODLEY HEAD.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 20th August, 1913.

THE Lyttelton Harbour Board have notified that a white patch, 60 ft. long by 40 ft. high (the bottom of the patch being 10 ft. above high water), has been painted on the cliff below Godley Head Lighthouse, to assist vessels making the port in foggy weather.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1999, 2529, and 3629; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter viii, page 237.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

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Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other, to be called the junior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Native Schools Code, 1908. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 8th and 9th of December, 1913.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 30th of September, 1913.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1913.

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Examination in Drawing only.

Education Department,
Wellington, 18th June, 1913.

IT is hereby notified that candidates for teachers’ certificates, pupil-teachers, probationers, students of technical schools, or other persons may, upon making application in due form, be examined in drawing only either at the Intermediate Examination of November, 1913, or at the Teachers’ Certificate Examination of January, 1914, and may take at such examination one or more of the branches of Drawing as prescribed for general candidates in each case; that is, at the Intermediate Examination either Drawing I or Drawing II, or both these branches, and at the Teachers’ Certificate Examination Drawing I, or Drawing II, or Drawing III, or any group thereof.

For an entry in Drawing only at the November (Intermediate) examination a fee of 2s. 6d. for each branch taken, or of 5s. for both branches together, is payable, except in the case of pupil-teachers and probationers for the time being in the service of an Education Board, or of senior free-place candidates who require this subject only to complete a senior free-place qualification. By such persons no entrance fee is payable.

For the January (Teachers’ Certificate) examination the entrance fee (pupil-teachers and probationers as before excepted) will be 5s. for one or two branches of Drawing, and 7s. 6d. for the three branches taken together.

Passing in any branch of Drawing at the certificate examination of January under the circumstances herein stated will exempt a candidate from further examination in the same branch under the requirements for a teacher’s certificate. A similar exemption will also be granted to successful candidates at the November examination who pass the examination in Drawing I or Drawing II with credit, obtaining not less than 60 per cent. of the maximum marks assignable in each case.

Applications on the forms provided, accompanied by a bank receipt for the necessary fee, are required to be made to the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, not later than the 15th September for the November examination, and not later than the 15th October for the January examination.

Forms of application to be examined will be obtainable at the offices of Education Boards or from the Education Department after the 1st July.

G. HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.