THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Mining Privilege struck Off the Register

Mining Registrar's Office, Te Aroha, 31st October, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of section 188 (4) of the Mining Act, 1926, that the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been struck off the Register.

C. L. A. STEVENSON, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE

(Mines 10/23/299.)

Land Board Meetings, 1948

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 11th November, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of the meetings during the year 1948 of the undermentioned Land Boards being held on the dates specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary for Lands.

(L. and S. 22/748/12.)

Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1947

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 5th November, 1947.
NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—KAIPARA HARBOUR.
Closed as a Port of Entry and Removal of Harbourmaster
Details : Owing to lack of shipping it has been decided to close Kaipara as a port of entry under the Customs Acts as from 17th November, 1947, and also to remove the Harbourmaster. Maintenance of navigational aids will be carried out as required.
Masters of vessels intending to use the port should notify the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, Auckland.
Publications affected : New Zealand Pilot, 1946, pages 70 and 71 ; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, pages 247 to 252.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 3/13/661.)

Draft New Zealand Standard Specification.—D. 2246, School Rulers

NOTICE is hereby given that the above Draft New Zealand Standard Specification is now being circulated to affected interests for consideration and comment. The closing date fixed for such comment is the 12th December, 1947.
All persons who may be affected by this specification once it has been declared a Standard Specification by the Minister of Industries and Commerce may, at any time before the closing date for comments, obtain, on application, free copies from the New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay, so as to have an opportunity to consider the draft and to comment thereon to the Standards Council or to an appropriate committee of the Council in accordance with subsection (3) of section 8 of the Standards Act, 1941.
L. J. McDONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925 : Cancellation of Registration

Department of Labour and Employment,
Wellington, 12th November, 1947.
NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Burke's Creek Coal-miners' Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 1696, situated at Reefton, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.
C. P. SMITH, Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1947.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1947.
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 Robert Parkins.

The Roman Catholic Church

The Reverend Brian Reginald O'Brien.
The Reverend Francis Desmond O'Dea.
The Reverend Patrick Fox.

The Methodist Church of New Zealand

The Reverend Basil James Hilder

Rationalists

Mr. Horace Robinson.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.