306 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 15

Revocation of Appointment as Honorary Launch Warden
(Deceased)

PURSUANT to the Harbours Act 1950, the Secretary for Marine hereby revokes the appointment of
Albert William Lack
as honorary launch warden for the purposes of the Harbours Act 1950.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of February 1972.
P. E. MUERS, for Secretary for Marine.
Gazette, 4 November 1965, No. 64, p. 1889
(M. 43/994/7)

Government Railways Appeal Board—Appointment of Member

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to subsection (4) (b) of section 91 of the Government Railways Act 1949, the Minister of Railways has appointed Mr Arthur Wallace Davey, Branch Administration Officer, Mechanical Branch, Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Wellington, as a member of the Government Railways Appeal Board from and including 23 March 1972 until and including 22 March 1974 in all appeals by or against employees in the New Zealand Government Railways.
Dated at Wellington this 9th day of February 1972.
I. THOMAS, General Manager,
New Zealand Government Railways.

Officiating Ministers for 1972—Notice No. 9

PURSUANT to the Marriage Act 1955, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information.
Anglican
The Reverend John Samuel Fisher.
Presbyterian
The Reverend Donald Woodward Hall, B.A.
The Reverend Donald Hugh Murray.
Roman Catholic
The Reverend Brian Consedine, C.SS.R
Brethren
Mr Charles Douglas Hewlett.
Mr Alan Johnston Melhop.
Christadelphians
Mr Jack James Morgan.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Elder Theodore Paul Hills.
Elder Clarence Stanley Stead.
Congregational Christian Church of Samoa in New Zealand
The Right Reverend Siaosi F. Ieriko.
Turangi Evangelical Church
The Reverend Myron Earle Mattocks.
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of February 1972.
J. L. WRIGHT, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1972—Notice No. 10

IT is hereby notified that the following names have been removed from the List of Officiating Ministers:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Elder William Stretch.
Elder Warren Waka.
The Absolute Established Maori Church of Aotearoa Waipounamu and Wharekauri (Incorporated)
The Reverend President Anania Te Amohau.
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of February 1972.
J. L. WRIGHT, Registrar-General.

Declaring Land in the Southland Land District to be Crown Land, Subject to the Land Act 1948

PURSUANT to the Coal Mines Act 1925, the Minister of Mines hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE
THE land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared to be Crown land, subject to the Land Act 1948.

SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
Lots 1 and 3, D.P. 1122, being part Section 5, Block XII, Town of Invercargill, situated in Block I, Invercargill Hundred: area, 13.8 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 89, folio 254, together with a right of way created by memorandum of transfer, No. 13731 over part Section 4, Block XII, Town of Invercargill, and subject to rights of way and other rights over the said Lot 3, D.P. 1122, created by memoranda of transfer, No. 13730, 30831, and 55378.
Dated at Wellington this 29th day of January 1972.
N. L. SHELTON, Minister of Mines.
(Mines 6/6/137)

Change in New Zealand Standard Time and Radio Frequency Standard

FOR several years the internationally adopted definition of the second, which governs all time and frequency measurements, has been based on a particular resonant frequency of the caesium atom. To keep civil time in close agreement with astronomical time, as determined by the rotation of the Earth, it has been necessary to maintain the civil second slightly longer than the atomic second, and to make occasional changes in its length, and periodic step adjustments in civil time. At present the civil second is 300 parts in 10¹⁰ longer than the atomic second, and frequency standards are offset from the atomic standard by a similar amount.

The Bureau International de l’Heure, after international consultation, has decided that from 1 January 1972, the time interval used throughout the world will be the atomic second, and frequency standards will be permanently based on the atomic second, without any offset. Future adjustments to keep civil time close to astronomically derived time will be made by periodically omitting one exact second from the reckoning of civil time. These adjustments will be made only on 1 January or 1 July, in any year as required. It is anticipated that adjustments will normally be needed once a year.

From 1 January 1972, New Zealand Standard Time, as kept and transmitted by the New Zealand Time Service, Geophysics Division, D.S.I.R., will be based directly on the atomic second, and the New Zealand radio frequency standard, as maintained and transmitted by the Physics and Engineering Laboratory, D.S.I.R., will be adjusted accordingly to a new, slightly higher, frequency by removing the present offset of 300 parts in 10¹⁰.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of January 1972.
B. E. TALBOYS, Minister of Science.

Open Season for Game in Acclimatisation Districts—North Island

This notice applies only to the open season for game in those acclimatisation districts which fall within the North Island.

PURSUANT to the Wildlife Act 1953, the Minister of Internal Affairs declares an open season for game of the kinds specified in the acclimatisation districts specified in the Second Schedule hereto, and during the periods and shooting hours set forth in relation to each district, except in the closed game areas published in the Gazette of 25 March 1970, and any subsequent Gazette notice, and in this notice, and subject to the special conditions published in this notice; and hereby calls the attention of sportsmen and others to the daily game possession limits set forth in the First Schedule hereto, and to the provisions set forth or referred to in the Fourth Schedule of the Gazette of 25 March 1970. Any person hunting or killing game otherwise than in the terms of this notification (including the special conditions specified in relation to any acclimatisation district) is liable on conviction to a fine of $100.

IMPORTANT—The closed game areas published in the Gazette of 25 March 1970, apply to the 1972 open season for game, subject to any amendments thereto and deletions therefrom published in this notice.