Mar. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 915

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Honours conferred by His Majesty.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies of the appointments by His Majesty of

The Honourable William Ferguson Massey, and Sir Joshua Strange Williams, K.C.M.G.,
as members of the Privy Council; and of

Sir Charles Christopher Bowen, Kt.,
as Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; and

John Shand, Esquire, M.A., LL.D.,
as a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Examination-shed appointed.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by the Customs Law Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Francis Marion Bates Fisher, Minister of Customs, do hereby appoint that the undermentioned building at the Port of Auckland shall be a place where goods may be deposited for examination on the landing thereof, namely:—

Wharf shed No. 7, situated on the northern wharf.

Given under my hand; at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1914.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs

Minister’s Order No. 1075.]

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Henry Martindale and Scott and Martindale, Wellington.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person and firm whose names and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in receiving money as the consideration for an assurance or agreement implied to pay money on events relating to horse-races, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person or the said firm shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person or the said firm (either by his or its own or any fictitious or assumed name), shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

HENRY MARTINDALE, Wellington.
SCOTT AND MARTINDALE. Wellington.

Dated this 4th day of March, 1914.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Postmaster-General

Successful Candidates, Plumbers’ Examination.

THE following is a list of candidates to whom certificates of having passed the examination held by the Plumbers’ Board of New Zealand in December last will be granted, in pursuance of section 17 of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.

JOS. P. FRENGLY, M.D., Etc.,
Chairman, Plumbers’ Board of New Zealand.
12th March, 1914.

Allen, Frederick.
Allen, Leonard.
Buchanan, Edward Barnaby.
Cooper, Frank.
Corin, George.
Cotter, Richard Joseph.
Darnbrough, Mark.
Densem, George.
Dick, Robert.
Dray, William Alfred Mason.
Empson, Ernest Alfred.
Exeter, Thomas John, jun.
Feely, James.
Forbes, John.
Grattan, Thomas Arthur.
Gunson, William.
Gwilliam, Henry Benjamin.
Hall, Frederick Benjamin.
Harrison, Henry Alexander Holder.
Hope, William.
Horne, Frank Linford.
Jarmey, Bernard William.
Johnson, James.
Leitch, Thomas.
Loach, George Wallace.
Loudon, John.
McIntyre, Francis Donald.
Mattson, Wilbert Alfred.
Mills, Charles Henry William.
Montgomery, Samuel James.
O’Connor, Arthur Vincent.
Ogden, Augustus George.
Parrott, John George Victor.
Patterson, George Frankton.
Russell, Leonard Isitt.
Scott, Edward.
Sentch, Vincent.
Seymour, George William.
Shearer, Sidney David.
Smith, Bertie.
Smith, Thomas Frederick.
Spencer, Joseph Alan.
Stratford, Matthew.
Thompson, Ernest.
Williams, Oliver.
Winterbourne, Leslie.
Young, Ernest Alfred.

Notice to Mariners No. 27 of 1914.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th March, 1914.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Minister of State for Communications, Tokyo, Japan, is published for general information.

B. W. MILLIER,
For Secretary.

TAKA-SHIMA LIGHTHOUSE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the character, candle-power, and visible distance of the light of Taka-shima Lighthouse, at the entrance to Yobuko Harbour, Province of Hizen, have been changed as follows:—

Character of light: Acetylene-gas flashing white light showing one flash every four (4) seconds.

Power: White light, 160 candles; red light, 60 candles; green light, 40 candles.

Visibility in clear night: White light, 11 nautical miles; red light, 8 nautical miles; green light, 7 nautical miles.

MOTODA HAJIME,
Minister of State for Communications,
Tokyo, 8th January, 1914,