Aug. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3039

New Plymouth Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
Henry Stocker.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Francis Peacock Corkill.
John Paton.
Edward Percy Webster.
Elected by the New Plymouth Borough Council—
William Andrew Collis.
James Thomas Mannix.
John Spencer Selwyn Medley.

Oāmaru Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
Andrew Fraser.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Thomas Chalmer.
Joseph Skottowe Webb.
John Stuart Hislop.
Elected by the Oamaru Borough Council—
William Henry Frith.
John Megget Forrester.
David Sinclair.

Palmerston North Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
John Bett.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Arthur Charles Blair.
William Ernest Albert Gill.
Henry Ernest Kempthorne.
Elected by the Palmerston North Borough Council—
James Alfred Nash.
Edward John Armstrong.
Frederick Jackson.

Petone Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
Richard Mothes.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Thomas Percy Bayntun Ching.
Henry Ernest Kempthorne.
Charles Robert Smith.
Elected by the Petone Borough Council—
John William McEwan.
William Edward Forsyth.
William Trueman.

Rotorua Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor —
Frederick Goodson.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Herbert Percy Kissling.
Harry Sedcole Malcolm.
Herbert H. Marshall.
Elected by the Rotorua Contributing Local Authority—
David Gardner.
William Hill.
Duncan William Steele.

Tauranga Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
Benjamin Conrad Robbins.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Harry Sedcole Malcolm.
Clinton Irving McKean.
Frank Hawthorne Pope.
Elected by the Tauranga Borough Council—
Charles Edward Macmillan.
Henry Theodore Castaing.
John George Green.

Timaru Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
James Wallace.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
James Charles Cooper.
John Frederick William Grierson.
Reuben Orwin.
Elected by the Timaru Borough Council—
Edwin Rowland Guinness.
Henry Green.
John Edward Hurdley.

Whangarei Fire Board :
Appointed by the Governor—
Robert Thompson.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Frank Evans.
William Floyd Harrop.
Norman Theodore Williams.
Elected by the Whangarei Borough Council—
John Samuel Dent.
Rowland Hill Harrison.
Frank Cutforth.

Cancelling License of Licensed Warehouse.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 13th August, 1915.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Customs Act, 1913, I, Arthur Mielziner Myers, Minister of Customs, hereby give notice that the license of Clouston’s Warehouse, Port of Wairau, dated the 5th day of January, 1915, is hereby cancelled on and after the 11th August, 1915, such warehouse having on that date ceased to be occupied by the licensee.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Certificates of Origin required for certain Imported Goods.

WHEREAS by regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, on the 26th day of January, 1915, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the same day, it is provided that certificates of origin are required in respect of goods imported into New Zealand from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, or Italy, except in the case of goods of a class exempted from this requirement by the Minister of Customs :

And whereas the Minister of Customs did, on the 26th day of January then instant, declare that the following classes of goods may be imported into New Zealand without a certificate of origin—namely, carbide of calcium, tar and pitch, strawboard, butter-paper, manurial salts :

And whereas it is deemed expedient to revoke the aforesaid declaration :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Mielziner Myers, Minister of Customs, do hereby revoke the aforesaid declaration ; provided that notwithstanding such revocation goods of the classes aforesaid may be imported from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, or Italy without a Consular certificate if they leave the countries from which they are so imported before the 30th day of September, 1915, and if the Collector of Customs is satisfied that they are not of enemy manufacture, origin, or ownership, and that they have not been imported in violation of the laws as to trading with the enemy.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Plants declared by the Coromandel County Council to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 1792.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 25th August, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Coromandel County Council has, by special order, declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction : Gorse, foxglove, bathurst burr, fennel, broom, and St. John’s wort.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 69 of 1915.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 20th August, 1915.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for the information of shipmasters concerned.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Marine.

No. 546 of the year 1915.

NORTH SEA, RIVER THAMES AND ENGLISH CHANNEL.

Pilotage and Traffic Regulations.

Former Notice.—No. 537 of 1915 ; hereby cancelled.

All orders in this notice are now in force, and have been made under the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations, 1914.

1. All ships (other than British ships of less than 3,500 tons gross tonnage, when trading coastwise or to or from the Channel Islands and not carrying passengers) whilst bound from, and whilst navigating in the waters from, the Downs Pilot-station to Gravesend, or vice versa, must be conducted by pilots licensed by the London Trinity House.

2. All ships (other than British ships of less than 3,500 tons gross tonnage, when trading coastwise or to or from the Channel Islands and not carrying passengers) whilst bound from, and whilst navigating in the waters from, Gravesend to