APRIL 4.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Levin on 16th April, 1940.

Notice is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Levin on the 16th April, 1940, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.
[Ikaroa, 1940/1941-2.]

P. H. DUDSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Notice to Mariners No. 7 of 1940.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd April, 1940.

NEW ZEALAND.---SOUTH ISLAND.---TIMARU HARBOUR.
Amendment to Sailing Directions, &c.
Position: Lat., 44° 24' S.; long., 171° 15' E. (approx.).
Amendments: During the present stage of harbour alterations it is necessary for Masters, after rounding the Extension, to keep no further north than No. 3 wharf lights in line. When the entrance to the harbour is opened up work the port as usual.
This course will clear moorings laid in a straight line from the straight of the Marine Parade distance 850 ft.
The green light and structure on the end of the North Mole has been replaced by a temporary green light at an elevation of 10 ft. During daylight working-hours the lamp and standard may be removed.
Chart affected: No 2532 (inset).
Publications: New Zealand Pilot, 1930, page 284; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, page 289.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 4/49.)

Declaration of Election of Members of the Fireblight Committee of the Christchurch Commercial Fruitgrowing District.
I, CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTS, Returning Officer for the purpose of the Fireblight Committee Elections under the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928, do hereby declare that the following candidates have been duly nominated for the election of members of the Fireblight Committee of the Christchurch Commercial Fruitgrowing District, nomination for which closed at Wellington at noon on the 19th day of March, 1940:
Dyer, Charles Henry.
Mottram, William Gerald.
Pope, Charles Ernest.
Sisson, Frederick William.
Stead, Ernest Alfred.
As the number of candidates nominated does not exceed the number of members to be elected (5), I hereby declare the said Charles Henry Dyer, William Gerald Mottram, Charles Ernest Pope, Frederick William Sisson, and Ernest Alfred Stead to be duly elected.
Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1940.

C. E. ROBERTS, Returning Officer.

Restricting the Cool-storage of Fruit.
PURSUANT to the Primary Industries Emergency Regulations 1939, I, Alfred Hyde Cockayne, Primary Industries Controller, do hereby prohibit the deposit, otherwise than by or on behalf of the Marketing Department, of any fruit in any cool store for the purpose of cool-storage except in pursuance of a permit to be granted by Francis Raymond Picot, Food Controller, who may grant any application for a permit either wholly or partly and either provisionally or absolutely for such period and upon or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1940.

A. H. COCKAYNE, Primary Industries Controller.

Officiating Ministers for 1940.--Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1940.
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 Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend Geoffrey Owen Adams.
The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Allan James Handyside.
The Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Conference of New Zealand.
The Reverend Conrad Walter Appelt.
The Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand.
Mr. Cyril Grosvenor Flood.
Mr. Herbert Grinstead.
The Christchurch Spiritualists Church.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sunderland.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.