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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the Service of Notices
by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1941.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May,
1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
21st May, 1914, the following officer, at the address set against
his name, is hereby appointed transmitting and receiving
officer 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.

William Neill Taylor, Postmaster, Naseby.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Telegraphs.

The Lemon Marketing Regulations, 1940.—Notice fixing Prices
of Certain Grades.

Office of Minister of Marketing,
Wellington, 21st February, 1941.

PURSUANT to Regulation 5: 1 of the Lemon Marketing
Regulations 1940, I hereby fix the following prices
per bushel to be paid by the Marketing Department for
lemons of fancy grade and commercial grade respectively
delivered to the Department during the undermentioned
period.

The prices are fixed on an average basic price of 8s. 6d.
for sufficient fruit which when cured will pack a bushel case.
Period of delivery (both days inclusive): 16th February
to 15th March, 1941:—

Loose packed fresh lemons, Fancy Grade .. 6 2
Loose packed fresh lemons, Commercial Grade .. 5 2

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Marketing.

Notice as to an Area in Canterbury Land District declared to be
a Fire District.

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921-22,
and section 6 of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925, I
do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Director
of Forestry and the Land Board of the district, the area
described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me
to be a fire district; and I do further specify the period
from the 1st day of November in any year to the 30th day of
April in the following year, inclusive, as the period during
which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said
district, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest
Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber
(whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris
from forest operations or any land-clearing operations, or any
grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking
such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY FOREST-
CONSERVATION REGION.

Arthur Pass Fire District.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, Tawera
County, containing approximately 97,000 acres, situated in
Davie, Bealey, Hawdon, Wilberforce, and Harper Survcy
Districts, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the
north and north-west by the Main Divide from the junction
of the Shaler Range with the Main Divide to the headwaters
of the Hawdon River; towards the east by the right bank of
the Hawdon River to the Waimakariri River and across that
river to its right bank; towards the south generally by the
right bank of the Waimakariri River to the Brucce Stream,
by the left bank of that stream to the summit of the Black
Range and by that summit to the summit of the Shaler
Range; and towards the west by the summit of the Shaler
Range to the Main Divide. As the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked 134/3, deposited in the Head
Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon
edged red.

Dated this 19th day of February, 1941.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Waihi Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th February, 1941.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and
the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments,
the ratepayers within the Waihi Drainage Area are hereby
notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates
for the year ending 31st March, 1941, unpaid on 14th March,
1941.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office on presentation
of the original demand, or to the Collector of Rates, Chief
Drainage Engineer’s Office, Private Bag, Auckland C.1.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 13/24/1.)

Notice to Mariners No. 2 of 1941.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th February, 1941.

BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS MESSAGES TO MERCHANT
SHIPS.—TRANSMISSION OF OFFICIAL MESSAGES, AREA
No. 11.

Former Notices: Admiralty Notice No. 3 of 1940, New
Zealand Notice No. 13 of 1940, in force.

The following procedure for the promulgation of Official
Messages to Merchant Ships in Area 11 will be adopted by
coastal radio stations listed in Admiralty Notice to Mariners
No. 3, Area 11, commencing at 0001 G.M.T., 7th March,
1941:—

(i) Coastal radio stations will commence their transmission
by indicating the number of official messages and their
times of origin, which they are about to transmit. This
will be passed on in the following form:

GBMS 11 de ZLW QTC2 0900z/17 1030z/16

and will enable operators to identify any messages which
have been previously received.

(ii) Coastal radio stations will then transmit the messages
referred to above, new traffic taking precedence.

(iii) In order that the ships and shore stations may be able
to listen for urgent distress traffic on 500 kc/s, shore stations
will make a pause of one minute duration, at intervals of
approximately every fifty words during GBMS transmissions.
The pause will be indicated by the shore station making
“ AS 1 ” (wait one minute) at the commencement of each
listening period.

(iv) The pauses referred to in paragraph (iii) above are in
addition to the observance of the silent periods at 15 to 18
and 45 to 48 minutes passed each hour.

Authority: New Zealand Naval Board, 20/2/41.

Publications: Admiralty List of Radio Stations, Vol. 1,
1940; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables,
page 162.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M/10/145.)

Officiating Ministers for 1941.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1941.

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.
Reverend Thomas Mouat Cameron Hay.

Baptists.
Mr. Arthur John Wakelin.

The Salvation Army.
Captain Albert Triplow.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Elder William Rosser Perrott.
Elder Te Ito Tangitaiti.

Ratana Established Church of New Zealand.
Apostle Te Mete Kere.

The Commonwealth Covenant Church.
Mr. Frederick Arthur Wilson.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.