3248
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

Member of Auckland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th October, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

Raymond Angelo Grace

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Auckland, for a further term of two years from the 15th day of October, 1941.

THOS. POUND, Assistant Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/748/1.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Keith Doidge Cameron Morrison, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Michael Farrell

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Whakatane.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th October, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Keith Doidge Cameron Morrison, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Denis Reginald Wilkes

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Naseby.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner.
Wellington, 15th October, 1941.

THE Acting Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Leslie McPherson

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Upper Hutt for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, on and from the 30th day of August, 1941.

Rendle Kelway Pope

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Brunner for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, on and from the 15th day of September, 1941.

Percy Howard Woods

to be Returning Officer for the Auckland West Electoral District for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 9th day of October, 1941.

Constable John Henry McCormick

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Culverden for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court at Culverden for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 25th day of September, 1941.

Jack Lionel Wright

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tauranga, on and from the 1st day of October, 1941.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1941.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 15th October, 1941.

PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1942.

THE New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables for 1942, compiled at the Nautical Adviser’s Office, Marine Department, will be published at Wellington on the 1st November, 1941, and afterwards may be purchased from Government Shipping Offices, or the Marine Department, Wellington.

The publication will 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 time of the flood and ebb streams making at French Pass and Tory Channel.

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

Magnetic variation (variation of the compass) at places throughout New Zealand for 1942, and places where abnormal variation has been experienced; list of latest dated Admiralty charts of the coast and harbours of the Dominion, &c.; list of New Zealand lighthouses, radio beacons, and fog-signals; regulations for preventing collisions at sea; New Zealand time-service for chronometer rating; standard times of the world; general harbour signals; railway map and distances; table of coastal distances; list of Customs ports; radio stations; meteorology of the New Zealand region; Pacific Ocean date-line; list of licensed adjusters of compasses and coastal pilots; ports at which compulsory pilotage is in force; system of buoyage; closing of British ports; and a list of signal letters of ships registered in the Dominion.

Information and plans relative to ports in New Zealand; important notices to mariners issued by the Admiralty and Board of Trade, and information of general use to navigators and others.

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, mean places, and meridian passage 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.

The Nautical Almanac is published by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Marine: Price, 5s.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 7/3/42.)

Notice to Mariners No. 31 of 1941.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th October, 1941.

ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS.

THE undermentioned charts, which have been published by the Hydrographer, cancel existing copies. The charts may be purchased at mercantile marine offices in the Dominion :—

No 1896 : New Zealand.—Approaches to Auckland, New Edition, 11/7/1941; Amendments to depths and topography throughout, especially in Waiheke Island area.

No. 3565 : New Zealand.—Bream Head to Tepaki Point, New Edition, 25/4/1941. Extensive corrections to outline and soundings at Whangarei Bay, at Moehau Peninsula and Mercury Islands, and on the east side of Great Barrier Island. Numerous additional outer soundings.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 7/6/100.)

Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 1941.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th October, 1941.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS.

NOTICE to Mariners No. 41 of 1940 is hereby amended as follows :—

(1) To section (i) of paragraph (2) add :—
(e) By hoisting to the masthead a fish-basket buoy or box.

(11) To section (iv) of paragraph (2) add :—
(e) By hoisting to the masthead a fish-basket buoy or box.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 9/14/5.)