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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds within the County of Cook.—(Notice No. Ag. 3511.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1937.

THE following special order made by the Cook County Council on the 18th day of August, 1937, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

Resolved that the Cook County Council proceed by Special Order, in pursuance of the powers vested in it by section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, to declare that the plants set out herein shall be noxious weeds within the County of Cook.

Plants referred to :—
Barberry (Berberis vulgaris).
St. John's Wart (Hypericum perforatum or H. humifusum).

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1937.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 22nd September, 1937.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—KAIPARA HARBOUR.
Alteration in Lights.

(1) Position : Sail Point. Lat., 36° 11′ S. ; long. 174° 03′ E. (approx.).
Alterations : The period has been altered from flashing every 5 seconds to flashing every 10 seconds, thus—flash 0·5 seconds, eclipse 9·5 seconds. A small red sector between 292° and 324° approximately has been introduced which is altered to suit changes in the channel.

(2) Position : Shelly Beach. Lat., 36° 31′ S. ; long. 174° 22′ E. (approx.).
Alterations : The period has been altered from flashing every 4 seconds to flashing every 10 seconds, thus—flash 0·5 seconds, eclipse 9·5 seconds. A small red sector between 082° and 123° approximately has been introduced which is altered to cut over corner buoy when its position is changed.

(3) Position : Helensville River. Lat., 36° 37′ S. ; long. 174° 24′ E. (approx.).
Alteration : The period of the light has been altered from flashing every 2 seconds to flashing every 4 seconds, thus—flash 0·5 seconds, eclipse 3·5 seconds.

Charts affected : No. 2614.

Publications : Admiralty List of Lights Nos. 3471, 3475, and 3476 ; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, page 159, Nos. 92, 93, and 94, and pages 263 and 264.

(M. 9/12/3.)
L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931.

Ikaroa Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1937.

IT is hereby notified that an order of adoption as set out in the Schedule hereunder was made by the Native Land Court on the 1st day of June, 1937, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1931.

C. V. FORDHAM, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Adopting parents : Rapi Hunia, and his wife Pae Tawhiri Utiera.
Adopted child : Denny Kopae Maxwell.

Result of Land Surveyors' Examination, September, 1937.

Office of the Survey Board, Government Buildings,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1937.

AT the examination of candidates for registration as a surveyor held in September, 1937, under the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928, and conducted by the Federated Surveyors' Boards of Australia and New Zealand, ten candidates presented themselves in New Zealand. Two of these candidates succeeded in obtaining passes, as under :—

Smart, William Henry, of Dunedin.
Westwood, Lloyd George, of New Plymouth.

R. G. DICK,
Secretary, Survey Board.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 28th September, 1937.

THE Loyal Moerewa Lodge, No. 9722, with registered office at Moerewa, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (New Zealand) Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 28th day of September, 1937.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Supplementary Teachers' Register and Supplementary Graded List of Primary, Secondary, and Technical School Teachers, 1937..

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1937.

THE following list of teachers is issued under the authority of the Minister of Education in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act. The list contains the names of—

(a) Teachers added to the Teachers' Register ;
(b) Teachers already in the Teachers' Register—
(1) Now graded, but not previously graded :
(2) Whose grading has been altered as the result of correction in marks, or change in certificate :
(3) Who are now graded under an additional division.

N. T. LAMBOURNE, Director of Education.