Oct. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3005

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 19th October, 1931. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

The Land and Income Tax (Annual) Act, 1931.

LAND-TAX PAYABLE.

BY Order in Council, made and issued by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council on the 19th day of October, 1931, under the authority of the above Act, it was determined that the duty by way of land-tax leviable under the said Act should be paid in one sum on Friday, the 6th day of November, 1931, at the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, Government Buildings, Wellington; and, in accordance with such Order in Council, I hereby give notice that the said duty will be payable accordingly.

Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before 27th November, 1931. The liability to pay is not suspended by any objection. The tax should be paid on or before the prescribed date, otherwise the additional percentage accrues; any overpayment will be adjusted by refund. The demands will be posted from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about 31st October, 1931. Demands must be presented with all payments, and taxpayers who expect a demand and do not receive one should notify me of the fact.

E. J. R. CUMMING,
Commissioner of Taxes.

Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1909.

Ikaroa Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1931.

IT is hereby notified that the order as set out in the Schedule hereunder has been made by the Native Land Court, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909.

C. V. FORDHAM, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

ADOPTING PARENTS: Hoani Wehipeihana and Hinekohe te Ruihi. Adopted child: Te Ruihi Wehipeihana.

Notice to Mariners No. 42 of 1931.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th October, 1931.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—PELORUS SOUND.

Dart Rock Buoy.

Position: Lat. 41° 03′ S., long. 173° 50′ E. (approx.).
Details: The above buoy has disappeared, and will not be replaced till December.
Remarks: No further notice will be given.
Charts affected: 2684—2685—2616.
Publication: New Zealand Pilot, 1930, page 250.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 3/3/231.)
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Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1931.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th October, 1931.

PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1932.

THE New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables for the year 1932, compiled at the Nautical Adviser’s Office, Marine Department, will be published at Wellington on the 1st November, 1931, and afterwards may be purchased from Government Shipping Offices or the Marine Department, Wellington.

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

Tidal Predictions, giving the daily times and heights of high and low water 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 may be obtained at 104 places within New Zealand.

Tidal Stream Predictions, giving the approximate daily times of the flood and ebb streams making at French Pass and Tory Channel.

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

Magnetic Variation (Variation of the Compass) at places throughout New Zealand for 1932; list of latest dated Admiralty Charts of the Coast and Harbours in the 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; Radiotelegraph 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.

Information and plans relative to ports of New Zealand; Important Notices to Mariners issued by the Imperial Board of Trade; information for 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 the “New Zealand Pilot,” 1930; 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 so as to receive a supply from the first issue, as some weeks may elapse between the first and subsequent issues.

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

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

(M. 7/3/29.)