1778
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

BLOCK I.
Being Portion of
A. R. P.
0 1 32 Section 17, sheet 1: coloured red.
1 0 35·7 ,, 17 ,, ,,
1 0 18 Part Section 28, sheet 1; coloured blue.

BLOCKS I AND II.
2 2 16 Part Section 28, sheet 1; coloured red.

BLOCK II.
3 2 32 Part Section 28, sheet 1; coloured blue.
0 3 22·04 ,, 31 ,, ,, red.
4 3 23·21 ,, 31 ,, ,, green.
0 0 16 ,, 31 ,, ,, red.
0 2 0·2 ,, 31 ,, ,, green.
1 0 8 ,, 31 ,, ,, red.
2 3 17 ,, 31 ,, ,, green.
2 0 0 ,, 35, sheet 2 ,, red.
2 0 0 ,, 36 ,, ,, burnt sienna.
2 1 38 ,, 5 ,, ,, yellow.
2 0 6 ,, 3 ,, ,, red.

Situated in Otahuhu Survey District (Auckland R.D.).
In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62927, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 27th day of May, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Correction.—Teachers’ Appeal Board.—Grading of Primary-school Teachers.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th May, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that the notice dated 15th May, 1925, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 38, of the 21st May, 1925, regarding the members of the Primary Teachers’ Grading Appeal Board, is cancelled. The Appeal Board set up for the year 1925 to hear appeals in connection with the grading of primary-school teachers will consist of—

Chairman: Andrew Duncan Thomson.
Representative of Education Department: Theophilus Benjamin Strong, M.A., B.Sc.
Representatives of Teachers.—One of the following:—
Christopher Thomas Aschman.
Bertie Newman Thornton Blake, M.A.
Robert Russell Hunter.
Norman Heyworth Sanger Law.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Education.

Notification of Vacancy of Seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Franklin.

IN compliance with the provisions of section 99 of the Legislature Act, 1908, I, Charles Ernest Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, hereby notify that the Right Honourable William Ferguson Massey, a member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Franklin, died on the 10th day of May, 1925, during a recess of the House, and that the said seat in the House of Representatives for the said electoral district is vacant by reason of such death.

Dated at Wellington, the 13th day of May, 1925.

CHAS. E. STATHAM, Speaker.

Notice to Mariners No. 42 of 1925.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—FOVEAUX STRAIT.—BLUFF HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th May, 1925.

Obstruction reported to exist.

THE Bluff Harbour Board notify the existence of a rock having a depth of 13¾ ft. over it at M.L.W.S. in the following position:—
159·3°, 320 ft. from No. 3 Red Beacon, and
311°, 770 ft. from No. 2 Red Beacon.

This rock is situated 265 ft. on the northern side of the Main Channel Leading Beacons in transit, and soundings of 28 ft. exist close on the southern or Main Channel side of the rock.

This obstruction has not previously been reported in a Notice to Mariners, and it is quite separate and apart from the obstructions recently reported in Notice to Mariners No. 36 as published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 27 of 30th April, 1925, and the attention of mariners is now drawn to the information contained in that notice.

Publications affected: Admiralty Plan No. 3484; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, pages 466 and 469; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” twenty-third edition, 1925, pages 270 and 271, and plan facing page 274.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1925.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—FOVEAUX STRAIT.—BLUFF HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 27th May, 1925.

Obstruction reported to exist.

ADVERTING to Notice to Mariners No. 42 of yesterday’s date, the Bluff Harbour Board further report the existence of a sunken rock in the following position:—
287°, 895 ft. from No. 1 Red Beacon, and 156·2°, 790 ft. from No. 2 Red Beacon.

There is 21 ft. over this rock at M.L.W.S., and it is situated 70 ft. southward of the Main Channel Leading Beacons in transit.

Attention of mariners is drawn to the information contained in Notice to Mariners No. 36 of 30th April, 1925.

Publications affected: Admiralty Plan No. 3484; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, pages 466 and 469; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” twenty-third edition, 1925, pages 270 and 271, and plan facing page 274.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Prescribing River and Extended-river Limits for Auckland.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1925.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, I, George James Anderson, Minister of Marine, do hereby define the limits in respect of the port or harbour of Auckland within which restricted-limit steamships, and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted limit certificates are issued, may ply, to be as follows:—

River Limits.—Inside Rangitoto Reef, Motukoreho Channel, Motuihi Channel inside a right line drawn from Home Bay Point to the northern point of the entrance to Maiteatea Bay, Tamaki Strait, not beyond Kohorunui Point, and inside Waiheke Channel.

Extended River Limits.—Inside a right line drawn from Hautapu Point on the Coromandel Peninsula to Shearer Rock off Tiritiri Island, and thence to Tawharanui Point.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointing Saturday as the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Waipukurau.

WHEREAS a poll to determine the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Waipukurau was duly taken under the authority of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, on the 29th day of April, 1925:

And whereas the Town Clerk of the Borough of Waipukurau has notified me that the majority of the votes given at such poll were in favour of the appointment of Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, do hereby appoint Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough as from the 1st day of June, 1925.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of May, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.