1694
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

The dredger will exhibit from the yard-arm of the side on which vessels are to pass between sunrise and sunset one red spherical shape; and between sunset and sunrise one fixed red light.

Care should be exercised by vessels to avoid fouling the dredger’s moorings.

Publications affected: Admiralty Chart No. 1970; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, page 192; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1924, page 198, and plan facing page 193.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 40 of 1924.

COOK STRAIT.—STEPHENS ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th July, 1924.

Reporting of Shipping by Telegraph liable to Interruption.

NOTICE is hereby given that reporting of vessels by telegraph from Stephens Island Signal Station is liable to delay or interruption owing to faults which have been reported to exist in the submarine telegraph-cable.

An endeavour will be made, when it is possible to do so, to transmit by telegraph any necessary communications which may be made by passing vessels, but the Marine Department cannot accept responsibility for the transmission of such communications, or for the accuracy of them if their transmission is effected.

Publications affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2684, 695, 2054, 2616, 3629, and 1212; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, page 300; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1924, page 166, No. 38; “Admiralty List of Lights,” 1924, Part 6, No. 3017.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 41 of 1924.

COOK STRAIT.—REPORTED EXISTENCE OF SHOALS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th July, 1924.

INFORMATION has been received from the Harbourmaster at Picton to the effect that shoals have been reported by fishermen to exist to the northward and to the north-westward of Jackson’s Head at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound.

From the descriptions supplied by the fishermen, the reported shoals, some of which they state they are able to see whilst fishing on them, may be assumed to exist in the following localities:—

(1.) Latitude 40° 50·9′ south, longitude 174° 15·6′ east.

(2.) Latitude 40° 55·3′ south, longitude 174° 18·7′ east.

Estimated depth, five fathoms; and reported to have been seen by the fishermen.

(3.) Latitude 40° 47·6′ south, longitude 174° 11·2′ east.

(4.) Latitude 40° 50·3′ south, longitude 174° 18·9′ east.

Estimated depth, five fathoms.

(5.) Latitude 40° 52′ south, longitude 174° 18·6′ east.

Estimated depth, twenty-five fathoms.

Masters of vessels are cautioned to avoid the localities referred to until a closer examination has been made.

Publications affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 695, 2054, 3629, 1212, 2684, and 2685; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, pages 108 and 309 and succeeding pages; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1924, pages 110 to 162; “Courses and Distances,” in cases in which the localities referred to become involved.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Main Highways Act.—Highway Districts.

IN pursuance of section 8 (1) of the Main Highways Act, 1922, the resolution dated 26th September, 1923, and gazetted on the 4th day of October, 1923, dividing New Zealand into eighteen highway districts, is hereby amended by adding to the description of the area of each such district the words “including all town districts not forming part thereof that are situated within the boundaries of any such county”; and also adding to the description of the No. 2 Highway District the words “all that area comprised within the Avondale Borough”; and also adding to the description of the No. 14 Highway District the words “all that area comprised within the Boroughs of Sumner and Lyttelton.”

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of July, 1924.

F. W. FURKERT,
Chairman, Main Highways Board.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Awamate Golf Club (Incorporated), 1913/6, is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Napier this 8th day of July, 1924.

W. JOHNSTON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Waipukurau and District Returned Soldiers’ Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Napier this 10th day of July, 1924.

W. JOHNSTON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 9th July, 1924.

THE St. Dominic’s Branch, No. 6, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a branch of The New Zealand District of the Hibernian-Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 9th day of July, 1924.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Ngaruawahia on the 19th August, 1924.

Registrar’s Office,
Auckland, 14th July, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Ngaruawahia on the 19th August, 1924, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

[Waikato-Maniapoto, 1924–8.]

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATIONS FOR COMPENSATION.

No. 14. Applicant: Under-Secretary for Public Works. Name of land: Moerangi 3p 2. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for a Native-school site.

No. 15. Applicant: Under-Secretary for Public Works. Name of land: Parish of Pepepe, Lot 2A–B. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for a road.

Notice respecting Proposed Constitution of Awatane Drainage District, County of Otorohanga.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th July, 1924.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Awatane Drainage District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED AWATANE DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point being the north-western corner of Section 5, Block XIV, Puniu Survey District, and proceeding