Sept. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2503

Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

Thomas Rankin Strang, Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Nelson.

David Robertson McCowatt, Postmaster, Port Chalmers.

Albert Victor Robertshaw, Cadet-in-Charge, Naseby.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Telegraphs.

Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by section 6, subsection (1), of the Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby notify that the premises set forth in the Schedule below have been registered, as from the date hereof, as a Children’s Home for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

THE Methodist Children’s Home and Orphanage, “Wesley Home,” 42 Asquith Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September, 1929.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Board of Maori Ethnological Research.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1929.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the members of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, constituted under section 9 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923, are as follows :—

The Honourable Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata (Chairman).

The Honourable Sir Maui Pomare.

Tau Henare, Esquire.

Tuiti Makitanara, Esquire.

Robert Noble Jones, Esquire (Deputy Chairman).

George Percival Newton, Esquire.

The Right Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates.

Henry Edmund Holland, Esquire.

Archdeacon Herbert William Williams.

Dr. Peter Henry Buck (Te Rangihiroa).

Elsdon Best, Esquire.

Harry Devenish Skinner, Esquire.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Maori Purposes Fund Control Board.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1929.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the members of the Maori Purposes Fund Control Board constituted under section 3 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1924, are as follows :—

The Honourable Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata (Chairman).

The Honourable Sir Maui Pomare.

Tau Henare, Esquire.

Tuiti Makitanara, Esquire.

Robert Noble Jones, Esquire (Deputy Chairman).

Theophilus Benjamin Strong, Esquire.

Archdeacon Herbert William Williams.

Dr. Peter Henry Buck (Te Rangihiroa).

The Right Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates.

Kenneth Stuart Williams, Esquire.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Officiating Ministers for 1929.—Notice No. 28.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1929.

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 Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Horace Edwyn Campbell Jones, M.A.

The Pentecostal Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Francis Robert Wilson.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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Notice to Mariners No. 46 of 1929.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th September, 1929.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—WEST COAST.—DUSKY AND MILFORD SOUNDS.

1. Dusky Sound: Rock reported to exist.

2. Milford Sound: Rock reported to exist.

THE Commodore Commanding the New Zealand Station submits the following information :—

(1) Position: Lat. 45° 47′ S., long 166° 35′ E. (approx.).

Details: A rock, on which the depth has not been ascertained, is reported to exist in a position 2½ cables westward of the middle of the western edge of Indian Island.

Remarks: A small white beacon exists on Station Island. The passage northward of Noman’s Island at the entrance to Dusky Sound is not recommended.

(2) Position: Lat. 44° 38′ S., long. 167° 54′ E. (approx.).

Details: A rock is reported to be close off Williamson Point.

Remarks: There is a conspicuous house at the head of Freshwater Basin.

Charts affected: 615—719.

Publication: New Zealand Pilot, 1919, pages 405 and 418.

Authority: Commodore Commanding New Zealand Station, 10/9/29.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 6/2/55.)

Notice to Mariners No. 47 of 1929.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 17th September, 1929.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—NORTH-WEST COAST.—KAHURANGI POINT TEMPORARY LIGHT.

Sectors amended.

Previous Notice: Wellington Notices Nos. 37 and 42 of 1929.

Position: Lat. 40° 46′ S., long. 172° 13′ E. (approx.).

Details: The arc of visibility of the red sector of the temporary light is found to be 25°; that is, between 151° and 176°. At a distance of 8 miles south-westward the light is obscured at 045°; but this bearing is found to become less as the distance from the light is increased.

Charts affected: 2616—3629—1212—788.

Publications: List of Lights, 1927, Part VI, No. 3668; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, 1929, page 165, No. 172; and 1930, page 168, No. 191; New Zealand Pilot, 1919, page 376.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 8/34/7.)

Notice to Mariners No. 48 of 1929.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 17th September, 1929.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—EAST COAST.—TIMARU HARBOUR.

Eastern Extension Mole: Light to be established.

Previous Notice: Wellington Notice No. 24 of 1929.

Date of Establishment: 24th September, 1929.

Position: On the Eastern Extension Mole, 25 yds. from the seaward end. Lat. 44° 24′ S., long. 171° 19′ E. (approx.).

Abridged Description: Fl. ev. 1½ sec., 35 ft., 7 M.

Character: Flashing white, showing one short flash every one and a half seconds.

Elevation: 35 ft. (10"7). Visibility: 7 miles.

Structure: Iron framework.

Remarks: The arc of the light is uninterrupted.

Chart affected: 2532.

Publications: List of Lights, 1927, Part VI, No. 3604; New Zealand Pilot, 1919, page 351; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, 1929, page 163, No. 125, page 267, and plan facing page 268; and 1930, page 165, No. 140, pages 288 and 324, and plan facing page 290.

Authority: Timaru Harbour Board, 16/9/29.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 4/49.)