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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 135

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 23rd November, 1916.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Wanganui, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

A. M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

WANGANUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Mangamahu Riding of the County of Wanganui taken on the 8th day of November, 1916, on the proposal of the Wanganui County Council to borrow the sum of £2,200 for the purpose of defraying the cost of the erection of the Wangaehu Suspension Bridge, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 33, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 8th day of November, 1916.

T. A. BAMBER,
Chairman of the County.

Articles prohibited to be imported to the United Kingdom.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1916.

THE following additions and amendments to the list (published in New Zealand Gazette of 26th October, 1916) of goods prohibited to be imported to the United Kingdom, except under license of the Board of Trade, are notified for general information.

ADDITIONS TO LIST.

Aluminium powder.
Live birds other than poultry and game.
Manufactures of bone, horn, ivory, and celluloid.
Cotton hosiery.
Jewellery.
All manufactures of gold and silver other than watches and watch-cases.

DELETION FROM LIST.

Oranges.

A. M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Post-office Savings-bank.—Rate of Interest allowed on Fixed Deposit.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in accordance with the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, section 77, and the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1915, as modified by the Finance Act, 1916, sections 62 and 63, the rate of interest on sums exceeding £50 forming part of a war fund within the meaning of the War Funds Act, 1915, lodged in the Post-office Savings-bank by way of fixed deposits for a period of five years shall be 4 per cent. per annum.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

Notice to Mariners No. 89 of 1916.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—LIGHTS ON WHARF IN CONSTRUCTION IN COMMERCIAL HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd November, 1916.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that during the construction of the Central Wharf in Commercial Harbour a bright, fixed, white light will be placed on the piles at the existing north-west and north-east corners.

These lights will remain until the wharf is completed, and the distinguishing lights are erected in the centre of the north end of the wharf.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1896 and 1970; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 38; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1917, page 248, and plan facing page 248.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 90 of 1916.

“NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES FOR 1917”; AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE “NEW ZEALAND PILOT,” EIGHTH EDITION, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 24th November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department has now published the “New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables for 1917,” with supplementary information to date relating to the “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908.

The work contains about 520 pages, and about forty maps and plans of harbours, wharves, &c., with latest alterations, and much information relating to the principal ports and harbours of New Zealand, and of value to mariners; also the usual Nautical Almanac data required in the ordinary navigation of ships, tide-tables (calculated by the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department) giving time and heights of high and low water at Wellington and Auckland, as standard ports, and constants to about eighty other places in the Dominion; also the tidal-stream prediction for Tory Channel and French Pass, where the tidal streams attain a rate of 5 to 7 knots at springs.

Courses and distances between all the principal ports in New Zealand, also between New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, South Africa, San Francisco, Vancouver, Valparaiso, Panama, New York, and to England, via Cape Horn, and Panama, with the return via Capetown, are given in the work.

Some very valuable nautical tables and examples of problems worked by their aid are published in the Almanac, which it is hoped will greatly encourage masters and officers generally to make a practice of determining the ship’s position from two stars at twilight, as these tables make the problems very easy, and also enable the observer to make sure that he is taking the right star by the easy calculation of the approximate altitude, and the bearing of the stars is given at sight.

The publication may be obtained at the Government Shipping Offices at Wellington, Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, at the Customhouses at other ports, and from the booksellers who stock it.

The book can be obtained in United Kingdom from the New Zealand High Commissioner, Strand, London, W.C.

Price, 3s.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 91 of 1916.

NAPIER HARBOUR.—TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF LIGHT ON AUCKLAND ROCK BUOY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 24th November, 1916.

THE Napier Harbour Board have notified that the red flashing light buoy on west of Auckland Rock will be taken on shore for repairs on 6th December, and will be temporarily replaced by a black conical buoy without a light for a period of about fourteen days.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2513 and 2528; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter iv, page 133; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1916, page 274, and plan facing page 272.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 92 of 1916.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—DREDGING.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th November, 1916.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that the dredge “Hapai” has now completed her work between the Albert Wharf and the Fish-market Landing, and is now moored approximately 800 ft. to the north-eastward of the north-east corner of Freeman’s Bay Reclamation and has six moorings laid out in N., S., E., and W. directions.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 1970; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 39.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.