2896
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Notice of proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 29th September, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Nelson Stonemasons’ and Monumental Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1358, situated at Nelson, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 22 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

W. NEWTON,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Notice to Mariners No. 40 of 1930.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th September, 1930.

PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1931.

THE New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for the year 1931, compiled at the Nautical Adviser’s Office, Marine Department, will be published at Wellington on the 1st November, 1930, immediately following which the book will be purchasable from Government Shipping Offices throughout New Zealand and from the Marine Department at Wellington.

This publication will, as formerly, contain the following information :—

Tidal Predictions, giving the daily times of high and low water and the tidal heights for the ports of Auckland, Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, New Plymouth, Wellington, and Westport.

Time Differences, by which the approximate time of high and low water at 104 places within New Zealand may be obtained; and Tidal Range tables.

Tidal Stream Predictions, showing the approximate time when the streams are slack at French Pass and Tory Channel, for every tide throughout the year.

Daily sunrise and sunset time predictions for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington; and time differences by which approximate sunrise and sunset times may be ascertained for Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth, and Westport.

Magnetic Variation (Variation of the Compass) at places throughout New Zealand for 1931; list of latest dated Admiralty Charts of the Coast and Harbours of this Dominion, &c.; List of New Zealand Lighthouses and Fog Signals; New Zealand Time Service for Chronometer-rating; Standard Times of the World; General Harbour and Visual Storm Warning Signals; Railway Map and Distances; Table of Coastal Distances; Customs Controlling Ports; Radio Direction Finding on Ships; Radio-telegraph Stations; Wireless Weather Bulletins; Meteorology of the New Zealand Region; Pacific Ocean Date Line; List of Licensed Adjusters of Compasses and Coastal Pilots, and ports at which Compulsory Pilotage is in force; System of Buoyage; Closing of British Ports; Provision Depots for Castaways.

Descriptions and plans relative to ports of New Zealand; Important Notices to Mariners issued by the Imperial Board of Trade; information of general use to navigators and others; changes on the coasts of New Zealand of importance to navigators which have taken place since the publication of Supplement No. 9 of the “New Zealand Pilot,” 1919; and late information relating to adjacent Pacific Islands.

Astronomical ephemeris as required for use by navigators, useful nautical tables with the necessary explanations; principal articles of the calendar, holidays, &c.; phases of the moon; astronomical phenomena, eclipses; mean places and meridian passages of stars, &c.

Prospective purchasers, especially those desiring a number of copies, should make early application for such so as to ensure receiving a supply from the first issue coming to hand from the Printer, as some weeks may elapse between first and subsequent issues.

Published by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Marine, Price 3s. 6d.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 7/3/28.)

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Westland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th September, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Westland Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: Ren. L. Lease 445. Section 3356, Block III, Hohonu Survey District. Lessee: R. Middleton. Reason for forfeiture: At request.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. XI/7/258.)

Land in Westland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 30th September, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 17th November, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, at 10.30 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 19th November, 1930, but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them; to landless applicants who, within two years immediately preceding date of ballot, have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force; to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war, if such persons immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand; to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s Forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany; and to landless applicants in respect of whom the Board, after taking into consideration the experience and skill of the applicants in farming operations, the proximity of their homes to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any other relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the hereinbefore specified classes.

The land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose right shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT.

Runanga Borough County.—Town of Runanga.

SECTION 13, Block XXXVI: Area, 39 perches. Capital value, £25. Half-yearly rent, 10s.

Weighted with £58 15s. for fencing, clearing, and buildings. This sum is payable in cash.

Town of Runanga is situated at State Coal-mine, about three miles by road and railway from Greymouth.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years.

2. Rent: 4 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year’s rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.

6. Order of selection is decided by ballot.