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less than eight days this formality is not necessary, since the Permit will be issued by the Police on the frontier.

§ PERSIA and HAYTI.—Certain formalities are necessary before leaving these countries, concerning which a British Consul should be consulted.

|| ITALY.—Personal attendance necessary with extra photograph.

SWITZERLAND.—A Permit to reside must be obtained from the Authorities.

Permits.

In the case of passengers travelling to or through any of the undermentioned countries, the Passport must bear a Home Office Permit. Application should be made at the Permit Office, Downing Street, London, S.W. 1, or at one of the Branch Offices :—

Denmark. Russia.
Holland. South America.
Iceland. Spain.
Norway. Sweden.
Portugal.

EGYPT.—A Permit to land in Egypt must be obtained from the Military Permit Office, 19, Bedford Square, W.C. 1.

Special Regulations.

All British subjects leaving the United Kingdom must be in possession of Passports issued or endorsed at the Passport Office, London, S.W. 1, after the 1st January, 1917.

In the case of women and children the Passport must bear an endorsement since the 1st February, 1917.

U.S.A. AND CANADA.—British subjects embarking for ports in the U.S.A. or Canada must be provided with passports issued or endorsed at the Passport Office, London, for the specific journey within thirty days of the date of departure.

Passport Office,
London, S.W. 1,
June, 1917.

NOTE.—Not less than fourteen days’ notice should be given for all applications for the endorsement or issue of new Passports.

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REQUIREMENTS OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES NOTIFIED TO NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BY CONSULS.

United States.—All persons about to depart for the United States of America are required to fill in a form of declaration, obtainable at all permit offices, and deliver at an American Consular Agency, together with three photographs on thin photographic paper 2½ in. by 2½ in., at least fourteen days prior to departure.

Providing the information and references furnished on the declaration are sufficient, the passport will be visé by the American Consul-General at Auckland or the American Consular Agent at Wellington, to whom the passport must be presented at least three days prior to embarkation.

Sweden.—Persons desiring to travel to Sweden from Australia and New Zealand must have their passports visé at the Head Swedish Consulate in Sydney.

Denmark.—Passports of persons travelling to Denmark from Australia and New Zealand must be visé at the Danish Consulate-General, Sydney.

Danish Consuls in New Zealand are not now empowered to visé such passports.

China.—Persons proceeding to China will not be admitted to that country unless they have in their possession passports with 4 in. photographs of the holder attached thereto, signed by Chinese Ministers or Consuls, and stamped with seals of Legations or Consulates. The Consulate fee for visé and attachment of seal is 5s. The Consulate in New Zealand for the Republic of China is Mr. Yue H. Jackson, whose address is “Brittain’s Buildings, 54 Manners Street, Wellington.”

Special Note for Persons travelling to Greece.—The Secretary of State has advised that an Order was issued at Athens on 19th August last forbidding entry into Greece to any one whose passport has not been visé by competent consular authorities since 23rd July, 1917.

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Hawke’s Bay Education Board.—Election of Member to fill Extraordinary Vacancy.

Napier, 1st December, 1917.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, I beg to publicly notify that Mr. ROBERT LAMB PATERSON has been duly elected, without opposition, to the extraordinary vacancy caused by the death of Mr. James Howard Sheath.

G. CRAWSHAW,
Returning Officer.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th December, 1917.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of a Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

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Tauhei Drainage District, Counties of Waikato and Piako—

James Brown.
James Clulow.
John Edmund Leeson.
Charles H. Mellsop.
Archibald Noble.

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Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Stores.

Wellington, 12th December, 1917.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Chairman, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 23rd January, 1917, for the supply and delivery of 488 leather satchels and 6,200 ironbark poles of various sizes.

Particulars and conditions of tendering may be obtained at the office of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington; the District Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch; or at the offices of the Telegraph Engineers at Auckland and Dunedin.

J. ORCHISTON,
Chairman.

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Notice to Mariners.—No. 100 of 1917.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th December, 1917.

THE following Notices to Mariners, which have been received from the Hydrographic Office, London, and the *Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, are published for general information.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

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VICTORIA.

ALTERATION TO HARBOUR LIGHTS.—WARRNAMBOOL.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, dated 1st August, 1917, page 52, mariners and others are hereby notified that on and after 1st December, 1917, the harbour lights at Warrnambool will be changed in character and visibility, as follows :—

Upper Light.—The Upper Light will be altered to a white flashing light with a flash of half-a-second duration every five seconds, visible from seaward between the bearings of N. 45° W. and E. at a distance of 14 miles in clear weather.

Lower Light.—The Lower Light will be altered to a fixed red and white light, visible from seaward red between the bearings of N. 39° E. and N. 1° E., white between the bearings of N. 1° E. and N. 38° W., and red between the bearings of N. 38° W. and N. 44° W. at a distance of 5 miles in clear weather.

ALTERATION TO SOUTH CHANNEL PILE LIGHT.—PORT PHILLIP.

Referring to Notice to Mariners, No. 7 of 1916, dated 20th March, 1916, mariners and others are hereby notified that on and after 1st December, 1917, the light at the South Channel Pile will be changed to an occulting light, with the following character :—

Light 4 seconds, followed by an eclipse of one-third of a second.

The bearings between which the light is visible will be (from seaward the light shows) :—

White between the bearings of S. 22° E. and N. 42° E.
Red between the bearings of N. 42° E. and N. 81½° W.
White between the bearings of N. 81½° W. and S. 84° W.
Red between the bearings of S. 84° W. and S. 76° W.
Obscured between the bearings of S. 76° W. and S. 22° E.

The principal result of the above alteration in the sectors of the light is that the present white sector over No. 15 Buoy will be changed to red.