Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 575

Mining Privileges to be struck off the Register.—Notice under the Mining Act, 1908, and the Mining Act Amendment Act, 1914.

Mining Registrar’s Office, Dunedin, 28th January, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the mining privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be struck off the Register.

B. HARPER, Mining Registrar for Hindon.

SCHEDULE.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 8 of 1918.

MERCURY BAY WHARF, WHITIANGA.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th February, 1918.

THE Coromandel County Council have notified that on and after Monday, 4th March, 1918, a red light will be shown from the end of Mercury Bay Wharf, Whitianga, when vessels are expected.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 2574 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter iv, page 101.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 9 of 1918.

KAIPARA HARBOUR.—SIGNAL-STAFF UNDER REPAIR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th February, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that extensive repairs are now being carried out at the signal-station at North Head, Kaipara Harbour. The balls and semaphore signals cannot be used to guide ships over the bar.

All bar signals will be made from above date and until further notice by the international code of signals shown from the lower mast of the signal-staff.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 2614 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter vii, page 208 ; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1918, page 326.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 11 of 1918.

PICTON HARBOUR.—WHARF LIGHT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 19th February, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that an electric light has been installed on the Railway Wharf at Picton Harbour, and vessels will now be signalled to their berth by a red or green light shown from the same post as the fixed red light on the end of the wharf. The red light will indicate that the birth is on the west side of the wharf and the green light on the east side.

The red and green lights will be shown 3 ft. below the fixed red light, and 3 ft. on each side of the post.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 1509 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter vi, page 177 ; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1918, page 445.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

The Poisons Act, 1908.—Register of Vendors of Poisons for the Provincial District of Nelson as on the 31st Day of December, 1917.

Agricultural Department, Union Chambers, Customhouse Quay, Wellington.

Ancell, William Robert, Bridge Street, Nelson.

Bailie, Thomas, Westport.

Brosnahan, W. G., Westport.

Burt, George, Tipahi Street, Nelson.

Clay, Sidney Palmer, and Ernest William Hodgson, trading as “S. P. Clay and Co.,” Brightwater.

Dalgety and Co. (Limited), Trafalgar Street, Nelson.

Dunn, Edwin Dacre, Westport.

Eastcott, Tom, Hardy Street, Nelson.

Hodgson, Ernest William, Wakefield, trading as “A. Hodgson and Son.”

Hodgson, Herbert John, Murchison, trading as “J. H. Hodgson and Co.”

Irvine, James Neil, Reefton.

Kirk, Robert, Takaka, trading as “Kirk and Co.”

Langridge, J. J., and Co., Takaka.

Maden, Arthur and Walter, Rockville, trading as “Maden Bros.”

Malkus, John Martin, “Lindisfarne,” Waimea Street, Nelson.

Manoy, Abraham, Motueka, trading as “Manoy and Sons (Limited).”

May, William Richard, Richmond.

Mullan, Robert Francis, Westport.

Murchison County Council, Murchison.

McInnes, William, Motueka.

McNee, R., Murchison.

Palmer, Mary Harvey, 154 Palmerston Street, Westport.

Pullar, James, Burnetts Face.

Scott, Colin Edwin, Takaka.

Scoltock, McCrea nor, and Co., Karamea.

West, Henry Francis, Hardy Street, Nelson.

J. FITZGERALD,
Magistrate’s Court, Registrar of Poisons.
Nelson, 16th January, 1918.