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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

Notice to Mariners.—No. 9 of 1917.

WESTPORT HARBOUR.—RED LIGHT ON WESTERN BREAKWATER TO BE MOVED SEAWARD.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 9th February, 1917.

THE Westport Harbour Board have notified that the red light shown seaward on western breakwater at Westport will be moved to the extreme end of the breakwater, a distance of 400 ft. seaward.

The light will be shown in its new position on and after the 18th day of February, 1917.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2591 and 2616; New Zealand Pilot, eighth edition, 1908, Chapter x, page 326; New Zealand Nautical Almanac, 1917, page 370, and plan facing page 368.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 14th February, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Limestone Island Cement Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 929, situated at Limestone Island, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend A. L. M. ASPLAND.

Salvation Army.
Captain CHARLES ABBOTT.
" EDWARD BOWER.
" MARTIN BROWN.
" THOMAS CARMICHAEL.
" WILLIAM CARROLL.
" WALLACE FOSTER.
" ALBERT KITE.
" ARTHUR PODMORE.
" HERBERT RIVE.
" THOMAS SHILTON.
" LEONARD TONG.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned name has been removed by request from the list of Officiating Ministers for the current year :—

Salvation Army.
Adjutant JOHN A. GILES.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twelfth day of February, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-six, subsection one, of the Appropriation Act, 1915, it is provided that, notwithstanding any Act to the contrary, it shall not be lawful or competent for any local authority or for any Harbour Board during the present war with Germany to borrow or contract to borrow any money (otherwise than by way of bank overdraft within the limit of its powers, if any, in that behalf) whether from the State Advances Office, or from any other source whatever, and whether in pursuance of a special Act or under any other authority whatever, without the precedent consent of the Governor in Council :

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor in Council to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the loans set out in column B therein : And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor in Council should issue :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the borrowing of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto; provided that the rate of interest at which the loans or any of them are to be raised shall in no case produce to the lender a return exceeding five and one-quarter pounds per centum per annum; and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Appropriation Act, 1915, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
Spring Creek Road Board .. .. .. 1,000
Hutt River Board .. .. .. 5,000
Mount Eden Borough Council.. .. .. 10,000

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Taranaki Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 31st January, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that a surrender of the lease of the undermentioned land having been accepted by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Section 2, Block LV, Tainui District; formerly held by E. T. and F. Calvert; tenure, R.L. 139.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Canterbury Land District for Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 12th February, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for selection by discharged soldiers under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 12 o’clock noon on Saturday, 31st March, 1917.