Notice to Mariners No. 55 of 1950

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th October, 1950.
NEW ZEALAND.-NORTH ISLAND.-WEST COAST
Cook Strait Survey
Survey beacons carrying a large black flag and radar reflector
have been laid in the following positions:
(a) Lat., 40° 38' S.; long., 174° 07'.5 E.
(b) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 174° 17' E.
(c) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 174° 26' E.
(d) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 174° 35' E.
(e) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 174° 45' E.
(f) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 174° 53'.5 E.
(g) ,, 40° 38' S.; ,, 175° 03'.5 E.
These beacons have no navigational significance.
Charts Affected: 695, 1212, 2054, 2684, 3629, 3633, 3634.
Authority: Commanding Officer H.M.N.Z.S. "Lachlan".
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 6/2/18.)

Notice to Mariners No. 56 of 1950

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th October, 1950.
NEW ZEALAND.-NORTH ISLAND.-AUCKLAND HARBOUR
Alteration in Fog Signal
Position: South-eastern corner of shed on Northcote Wharf,
lat., 36° 49'.6 S.; long., 174° 44'.8 E.
Abridged Description: Bell.
Details: The fog whistle has been replaced by an electrically
controlled bell, sounding continuously.
Chart Affected: No. 1970.
Publications: New Zealand Pilot, 1946, page 190; New
Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables, page 196.
Authority: Auckland Harbour Board, 9th October, 1950.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M 3/13/460.)

Notice to Mariners No. 57 of 1950

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th October, 1950.
PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND
TIDE-TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1951
THE New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables for 1951,
compiled at the Nautical Adviser's Office, Marine Department,
will be published at Wellington about the 15th November, 1950,
and afterwards may be purchased from Government Shipping
Offices or the Marine Department, Wellington.
The publication contains the following information:-
Astronomical ephemeris of the sun; daily times of sunrise
and sunset at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington,
with time differences for ascertaining similar times at Invercargill,
Nelson, New Plymouth, and Westport; Phases of the moon; mean
places and meridian passage of stars and times of moonrise and
moonset at Wellington.
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 times
of the flood and ebb streams at French Pass and Tory Channel.
Magnetic declination (variation of the compass) at places
throughout New Zealand for 1951, 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; distress
signals and procedure; regulations preventing collisions at sea;
New Zealand time-service for chronometer rating; standard times
of the world; general harbour signals; table of costal distances; list
of customs ports; 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; a list of signal letters of ships
registered in the Dominion; small ship radio-telephony service;
useful nautical tables with the necessary explanations; and principal
articles of the calendar, holidays, &c.
Information and plans relative to ports in New Zealand;
important notices to mariners issued by the Admiralty and information
for general use to navigators and others.
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 20s.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 7/3/50.)

Notice to Mariners No. 58 of 1950

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th October, 1950.
NEW ZEALAND.-NORTH ISLAND.-GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
Soundings Reported in Vicinity
The commanding officer of the H.M.S. "St. Austell Bay"
reports obtaining the following soundings east-north-east of Great
Barrier Island:
(a) 10 fathoms in lat., 35° 55' S.; long 176° 09'.5 E. (080°
36.5 miles from Needles Point).
(b) 12 fathoms in lat., 35° 49'.5 S.; long., 176° 14'.5 E. (073½°
42.6 miles from Needles Point).
Charts Affected: 2543, 3633, 1212.
Publications: New Zealand Pilot, 1946, page 158.
Authority: Navy Department, 26th September, 1950.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 6/1/121.)

N.Z. FOREST SERVICE NOTICE
Land in the Wellington Land District Acquired as Permanent State
Forest Land
New Zealand Forest Service,
Wellington, 11th October, 1950.
NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule
hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act, 1949, as
permanent State forest land.
SCHEDULE
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-WELLINGTON CONSERVANCY
ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, Horowhenua County,
containing by admeasurement 3,113 acres 1 rood, more or less, being
Sections 8 and 9, Block III, and parts of Sections 4 and 5, Block IV,
Waiopehu Survey District, and being all the land comprised and
described in Certificates of Title, Volume 65, folio 73, Volume 73,
folio 172, and Volume 189, folio 92 (Wellington Registry). As
the same is delineated on plan No. 85/5, deposited in the Head
Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon
bordered red. (Wellington plans S.O. 12665 and S.O. 12678.)
ALEX. R. ENTRICAN, Director of Forestry.
(F.S. 9/3/110.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICE
In Bankruptcy.-Supreme Court.-Palmerston North District
NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-
sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together
with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed
in the above Court; and I hereby give further notice that at a sitting
of the Supreme Court to be holden at Palmerston North, on
Wednesday, the 8th day of November, 1950, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, I intended to apply for orders releasing me from the
administration of the said estates:
Addington, Herbert Hiley Stafford, Levin, Retired Farmer.
Andersen, Max, Palmerston North, Builder.
Donaldson, Norman George, Palmerston North, Hairdresser.
Eagles, Leslie, Palmerston North, Hotelkeeper.
Lee, Arthur, Shannon, Salesman.
Romeril, Percy Powell, Palmerston North, Mechanic.
Whyte, Joseph William, Feilding, Contractor.
A. R. C. CLARIDGE, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Palmerston North.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES
EVIDENCE of the loss of Memorandum of Mortgage 205636,
affecting the land in Certificate of Title, Volume 357, folio 186
(Auckland Registry), whereof ERNEST CANNELL MOORE, of
Matamata, Factory Assistant, is the mortgagor, and HENRY LAW,
of Auckland, Retired Gentleman, now deceased, is mortgagee,
having been lodged with me together with an application to register
a transmission and a discharge of the said mortgage without
production of the outstanding copy thereof in terms of section 40 of
the Land Transfer Act, 1915, notice is hereby given of my intention
to register such transmission and discharge on 3rd November, 1950.
Dated this 13th day of October, 1950, at the Land Registry
Office, Auckland.
G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.