Oct. 4. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2939

Notice to Mariners No. 63 of 1928.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th September, 1928.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—WEST COAST.—KAIPARA HARBOUR.

Bar Soundings.

Previous Notice: Wellington Notice No. 52 of 1927.
Position: Lat. 36° 26′ S., long 174° 00′ E. (approx.).
Details: Captain J. Bollons, G.S.S. “Tutanekai” reports as follows:—
“ When at the Kaipara on 13th September, 1928, a line of soundings was taken across the bar, the shoalest water obtained being 27 ft., L.W.O.S., the transit mark being the lighthouse north of the top beacon, one width of the latter; the lower beacon a little south of the flagstaff. As the bar at the time of sounding was breaking, the opportunity was excellent for seeing the best channel and the marks.”
Chart affected: 2614.
Publications: New Zealand Pilot, 1919, page 87; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables, 1928, page 233, and 1929 (in press), page 244.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 6/2/7.)

Notice to Mariners No. 64 of 1928.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st October, 1928.

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.—FIJI ISLANDS.—OVALAU.

Shoals reported to exist.

Former Notice: Wellington Notice No. 43, of 1928.
Position: Nympe Shoal, in lat. 17° 37·2 S., long. 178° 47′·5 E. (approx.).
Details: The Navy Office, Wellington, reports that a recent sweep, carried out by H.M.S. “Veronica,” of the area north-west of the Island of Ovalau has revealed many unsuspected dangers. A list of the shoals reported is given hereunder. All bearings and distances from the centre of Nympe Shoal on Chart 1249.

(a) 2·54 miles 294 deg, 1½ fathoms.
The existence of this shoal, although close to the track usually followed, was quite unsuspected.
(b) 2·4 miles 291 deg., 6 fathoms.
(c) 2·48 miles 290 deg., 4½ fathoms.
(d) 2·47 miles 288½ deg., 5 fathoms.
(e) 3·73 miles 287 deg., 2½ fathoms.
(f) 3·85 miles 285½ deg., 3 fathoms.
(g) 4·24 miles 270 deg., rock awash L.W.O.S.
(h) 4·24 miles 268 deg., 2¼ fathoms.
(i) 3·08 miles 260 deg., rock awash at L.W.O.S.
This latter is the amended position of the rock awash at L.W.O.S. already charted.

Charts affected: 1249—905—440—2691.
Authority: Navy Office, Wellington. 14/9/28.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

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Applications for the Position of Chief of the Statistical Section of the International Labour Office, Geneva.

APPLICATIONS are invited by the International Labour Office for the above position, to be received before the 31st December, 1928. Salary to commence 28,000 Swiss francs per annum.
Candidates must be between the ages of thirty and forty-five on 31st December next.
Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary of Labour, Wellington.

Officiating Ministers for 1928.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1928.

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:—

The Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Jeremiah McGrath.

The Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Conference of New Zealand.
The Reverend Edward Arthur Noffke.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Subsidies to Public Libraries in Country Districts.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th October, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries in country districts.

The distribution will take place about the 1st March, 1929, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that is not forwarded in due form and received by the Secretary, Education Department, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1929.

1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed of a section of the community only; and if it is within a borough a reading-room where the books may be read, and containing newspapers and periodicals, must be provided for the public free of charge; in addition, it must not be situated in a borough, town, or town district the population of which exceeds fifteen hundred. The receipts for the year from subscriptions, donations, and voluntary contributions must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. The number of members subscribing to the library during the year must not have been less than eight, each of whom must have paid the subscription for at least six months. Libraries established during 1927 may make applications for a grant, and each case will be considered on its merits. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

2. In the distribution of the vote a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will be divided according to the amounts thus augmented; but no library will receive credit for a larger income than £25—that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £50.

3. The whole of the subsidy must be expended without delay in the purchase or loan of books for the library.

4. It is particularly enjoined upon the authorities in charge of the public libraries concerned that a due proportion of the books purchased shall be books having a permanent value—that is, books of more than merely passing interest.

5. Application to share in the distribution must be by means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made, and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and payments of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1928, and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose.

6. Copies of the form of application may be obtained from the Secretary, Education Department, Wellington.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Result of Land Surveyors’ Examination, September, 1928.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 27th September, 1928.

AT the examination of candidates for a surveyor’s license held in September, 1928, under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, and conducted by the Federated Surveyors’ Boards of Australia and New Zealand, twenty-eight candidates presented themselves in New Zealand. Six of these candidates succeeded in obtaining passes, as under:—

Barnett, Charles Oldfield, of Christchurch.
Gibson, Gordon Lemon, of Lower Hutt.
Hutchinson, Henry, of Auckland.
Sanderson, Neville Rahiri, of Auckland.
Sergel, Carl Scott, of Invercargill.
Wilson, Douglas Partridge, of Christchurch.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Surveyor’s License under the New Zealand Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, suspended.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Surveyors’ Board has suspended License No. 591, dated 19th July, 1915, issued to Mr. Wiremu Paora, for a period of three months from 28th September, 1928.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary.

28th September, 1928.