Dec. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3657

Government Printing and Stationery Offices to be closed from
the 25th December, 1913, to the 10th January, 1914.

Printing and Stationery Department,
Wellington, 10th December, 1913.

THE Government Printing and Stationery Offices,
Wellington, will be closed from Thursday, the 25th
December, 1913, until Saturday, the 10th January, 1914,
both days inclusive.

J. MACKAY,
Government Printer.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 42.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1913.

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 name of
an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act
is published for general information :—

Baptists.

Mr. THOMAS ATKINSON.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

Astronomical Tables.

Hector Observatory,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th December, 1913.

THE following astronomical tables are published for
general information. They give the New Zealand
Standard mean time when the sun is on the meridian of the
Hector Observatory, Wellington, and the sun’s apparent
right ascension at apparent noon, Wellington. The
adopted position of the transit instrument at the Hector
Observatory is latitude 41° 17′ 3·8″ south and longitude
11 h. 39 m. 4·3 s. east of Greenwich.

JANUARY, 1914, AT APPARENT NOON.

C. E. ADAMS.
Government Astronomer.

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Notice to Mariners No. 134 of 1913.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—WESTERN TIDE DEFLECTOR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 9th December, 1913.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that work
has now been commenced on the Western Tide Deflector, starting at a point 726 ft. east of the N.W. corner
of the Freeman’s Bay Reclamation and continuing out on a
bearing 48° 18′ (true).

The plant engaged on this work will be moored in the
vicinity, and as the work proceeds a black beacon will be
placed on the northernmost point, a bright white light being
placed on such beacon from sunset to sunrise.

Charts, &c., affected : Admiralty Charts Nos. 1896 and
1970 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii,
page 38 ; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1914, plans
facing page 246.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
the Public Trust Office Act, 1908.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken
out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in
the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election
to administer the several intestate estates of the persons
deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far
as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross
properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case :—

McCready, James, late of Manaia, in the Provincial District
of Taranaki, labourer. Filed 2nd June, 1913.

Tyson (or Bain), Rosina Mary Ann, late of Glenhope, in
the Provincial District of Nelson, married woman. Filed
4th June, 1913.

McCaffery (or McCoffery), Bernard, late of Thames, in the
Provincial District of Auckland, settler. Filed 5th June,
1913.

Riddell, Alex., late of Glencoe, in the Provincial District of
Otago, labourer. Filed 6th June, 1913.

O’Regan, Elizabeth, late of Cronadun, in the Provincial
District of Nelson, married woman. Filed 10th June, 1913.

Bowman, Maria Esther, late of Beaumont, in the Provincial
District of Otago, miner. Filed 10th June, 1913.

Campbell, Robert, late of Bluff, in the Provincial District
of Otago, labourer. Filed 10th June, 1913.

Sellar, Annie, late of Coromandel, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, spinster. Filed 10th June, 1913.

Armstrong, Frederick Lionel, late of Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, hotel manager. Filed
13th June, 1913.

Bradbury, Geoffrey Norrison, late of Frankton Junction,
in the Provincial District of Auckland, railway porter. Filed
16th June, 1913.

Austin, William, late of Porangahau, in the Provincial
District of Hawke’s Bay, shepherd. Filed 16th June, 1913.

Sands, Edwin (or Edward John), late of Te Kuiti, in the
Provincial District of Auckland, surfaceman. Filed 16th
June, 1913.

Thompson, Alexander, late of Wellington, in the Provincial
District of Wellington, stonemason. Filed 20th June, 1913.

Mercer, John, late of Port William, in the Provincial District of Otago, fisherman. Filed 25th June, 1913.

Branley, Ann Maria, late of Johnsonville, in the Provincial
District of Wellington, married woman. Filed 26th June,
1913.

King, Robert Edward, late of Wellington, in the Provincial
District of Wellington, instrument repairer. Filed 26th June,
1913.

Minns, Arthur Clark, late of Westport, in the Provincial
District of Westland, nightwatchman. Filed 26th June, 1913.

McMannom, Patrick, late of Golden Bar, in the Provincial
District of Marlborough, labourer. Filed 26th June, 1913.

Oakley, William, late of Rotorua, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, carpenter. Filed 27th June, 1913.

Harper, Annie, late of Burwood, in the Provincial District
of Canterbury, married woman. Filed 1st July, 1913.

Boggs, John, late of Taumarunui, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, labourer. Filed 1st July, 1913.

Clark, Elizabeth Victoria, late of Cambridge, in the Provincial District of Auckland, married woman. Filed 2nd
July, 1913,