Sept. 19] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1273

SECOND SCHEDULE
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, situated in Blocks IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Waikohu Survey District, and XII and XVI, Ngatapa Survey District, containing seven thousand three hundred and forty-nine (7,349) acres, more or less, being Section 4x, Block IX, Waikohu Survey District, Lot 4, Deposited Plan 2346, and part Lot 2, Deposited Plan 1558, part Okahuatiu Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks (Gisborne plan S.O. 4374), and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 84, folio 154 (Gisborne Registry). As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2959, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand, this 17th day of September, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/2595.)

Friendly Society registered

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1946.

THE Auckland District Co-operative Credit Union, with registered office at Auckland, is registered as a specially authorized society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 16th day of September, 1946.

G. E. BRADLEY, Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1946.—Notice No. 28

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1946.

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 Albert Bertram Gloyn.
The Reverend Cheung Wing Ngok.

The Roman Catholic Church

The Reverend James Hugh McNeill.
The Reverend Douglas Harry Ward.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

The Land and Income Tax (Annual) Act, 1946.—Land-tax payable

IN accordance with Order in Council dated 18th September, 1946, issued under the Land and Income Tax (Annual) Act, 1946, I hereby notify that the land-tax leviable under that Act is payable at any office of the Land and Income Tax Department or at any money-order post-office in one sum on Friday, 4th October, 1946, and that additional tax accrues if not paid by 25th October, 1946. Liability is not suspended by any objection, and tax must be paid by the prescribed date to avoid additional percentage; any over-payment will be refunded.

Demands will be issued on or about 27th September, 1946, and must be presented with all payments. Taxpayers who do not receive an expected demand should communicate with the Department.

F. G. OBORN, Commissioner of Taxes.

Notice to Mariners No. 26 of 1946

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 17th September, 1946.

ADMIRALTY PUBLICATION

A NEW edition of the following chart has been published by the Hydrographer and may be purchased at Mercantile Marine Offices in the Dominion :—

No. 2543. New Zealand.—North Island.—Sheet 2

Extensive amendments to northern and eastern approaches to Hauraki Gulf, and Frith of Thames and Auckland Harbour. Existing copies of the chart are hereby cancelled.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

(M. 19/5/40.)

Notice to Mariners No. 28 of 1946

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 17th September, 1946.

THE following reprint of Admiralty Notice No. 1635 of 1946 is published for the general information of mariners :—

ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS

New Light Characteristics.—Abbreviations on Admiralty Charts

A type of flashing light is now being used whose characteristic cannot be described adequately by the abbreviations at present in use in Admiralty Charts and Publications.

This light exhibits flashes at a rate of more than 60 times a minute.

The three types are described below, and the abbreviation which will in future be used in Admiralty Charts and Publications is given for each.

(a) Quick Flashing.—Flashing continuously more than 60 times a minute.

Abbreviation :—Qk. Fl.

(b) Interrupted Quick Flashing.—Flashing at a rate of more than 60 times a minute with at regular intervals a total eclipse.

Abbreviation :—Int. Qk. Fl.

(c) Group interrupted Quick Flashing.—Groups of quick flashes as defined above, separated by relatively longer periods of total eclipse.

Abbreviation :—Gp. Int. Qk. Fl.

NOTE.—It is not considered possible within the space generally available on a chart to indicate whether the periods of total eclipse either within the group of flashes or between such groups are greater, equal to, or less than those of the light periods.

Chart affected : No. 5011.

Publication : Admiralty Lists of Lights.

Authority : Admiralty (H. 5504/45).

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

(M. 19/5/30.)

Public Trust Office.—Appointment of Agent at Waitara

IT is notified for public information that Mr. Arthur John Wells has been appointed to the position of Agent of the Public Trust Office at Waitara.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of September, 1946.

W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

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, 17th September, 1946. W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.