1250 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 35

Declaration of State of Local Civil Defence Emergency

PURSUANT to section 52 of the Civil Defence Act 1983, I, Robert Norman Byrne, hereby declare a state of local civil defence emergency to be in force in the Whakatane District.

The state of local civil defence emergency shall come into force on the time and date of the making of this declaration.

Declared by: R. N. Byrne.

Designation: Mayor/Controller.

Time and Date of Declaration: 1450 hrs, Monday, 2 March 1987.

Declaration of State of Local Civil Defence Emergency

PURSUANT to section 52 of the Civil Defence Act 1984, I, Robert Norman Byrne, hereby declare a state of local civil defence emergency to be in force in the Whakatane District.

The state of local civil defence emergency shall come into force on the time and date of the making of this declaration.

Declared by: R. N. Byrne.

Designation: Mayor/Controller.

Time and Date of Declaration: 1800 hrs, Thursday, 5 March 1987.

Transport Licensing Authority Sitting

PURSUANT to the Transport Act 1962, the No. 11 District Transport Licensing Authority (F. H. K. Moore), gives notice of the receipt of the following application and will hold a public sitting in the Function Room, State Insurance Building, Don Street, Invercargill on Wednesday, 8 April 1987, commencing at 9.30 a.m. to hear evidence for or against granting it.

ALL/87/57 Blue Star Taxis (Invercargill) Ltd., Invercargill. Application pursuant to section 131 (2) of the Transport Act 1962 to increase the monthly operating fee paid by licensees to $275 per month exclusive of G.S.T. with effect from 1 March 1987.

Dated at Dunedin this 13th day of March 1987.

D. A. BATCHELOR, Secretary.

No. 11 District Transport Licensing Authority.

Transport Licensing Authority Sittings

PURSUANT to the Transport Act 1962, the No. 1 Transport District Licensing Authority (J. M. Foster), give notice of the receipt of the following applications and will hold a public sitting in the Northland Catchment Commission Boardroom, Kaka Street, Whangarei, at the time and date stated to hear evidence for or against granting them.

Thursday, 9 April 1987, 9.30 a.m.

P1/86 Whangarei Bus Services Ltd. Amend Passenger Transport Service Licence 18050 by deleting the following city to Hikurangi Services:

depart city 9 a.m. Tues and Thurs. depart city 1.20 p.m. Friday. depart city 8.40 p.m. Friday night.

Dated at Auckland this 11th day of March 1987.

J. H. McCARTHY Secretary.

Transport District Licensing Authority.

The Standards Act 1965—Draft New Zealand Amendment Available for Comment

PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 23 of the Standards Act, 1965, notice is hereby given that the following draft amendment is being circulated.

Number and Title of Specification

DZ 4431/A1 Draft Amendment No. 1 to NZS 4431:1978 Code of practice for earth fill for residential development. Gratis.

This draft amendment has been prepared from the response received by SANZ to requests to selected users of the standard for suggestions for improvement. References to related documents have been updated.

All persons who may be affected by this publication and who desire to comment thereon may obtain copies from the Standards Association of New Zealand, Wellington Trade Centre, 181–187 Victoria Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

The closing date for receipt of comment is 30 June 1987

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of March 1987.

DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,

Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.

(S.A. 114/2/8)

Decision No. 3/87

BRO 30/86

Before the Broadcasting Tribunal

IN the matter of the Broadcasting Act 1976, and in the matter of OTAGO RADIO ASSOCIATION INC. for an amendment to Warrant AM-1/4XD to extend the hours of broadcasting:

Chairman: B. H. Slane.

Members: Ann E. Wilson and Robert Boyd-Bell.

Dated the 12th day of March 1987.

DECISION

The present hours of 4XD are Monday to Saturday 1800 hours to 2300 hours, Sunday 0900 hours to 2300 hours.

The association has applied to extend the hours by 1 hour on weekdays to close at midnight, and to broadcast from 0800 to 2400 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. This constitutes an extension on Saturdays of 10 hours and on Sundays of 2 hours.

An application is also made to continue until 1 hour after midnight on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

The station’s hours were substantially increased in 1981 (Decision 17/81) which followed a suggestion from the Tribunal that it would like to see the station work towards an extension of hours.

That resulted in the station broadcasting daily.

In 1984 the daily hours were extended to provide continuous broadcasting from 0900 hours to 2300 on Sundays (Decision 12/84).

The present application therefore slightly extends the hours Sunday to Friday and substantially increases the hours on Saturdays.

In support of the application the association indicated that it intended to use the additional hours to provide a programme to its listeners similar to that broadcast during the present hours. The content of the programme was described as light and bright music with an emphasis on popular music of the past, recent middle of the road releases and country music. It was described as “easy listening”.

The association submitted that the programme would fill a gap between the contemporary music broadcast by 4XO, the sporting and general popular music programme broadcast by 4ZB, the national programme broadcast by 4YA and the concert programme broadcast by 4YC, and the heavy music broadcast by the Student FM station.

It was suggested that the programme content did not encroach on or duplicate programmes offered by other radio stations in Dunedin.

There was no opposition to the application.

The tribunal considers the increased hours to be desirable in the public interest; that the extension will have no significant effect on any other station; and that the extension provides a better utilisation of the frequency.

The warrant will be amended as applied for.

Signed for the tribunal:

B. H. SLANE, Chairman.

Electrical Wiring Regulation 1976

PURSUANT to the provisions of regulation 18 (3) of the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1976, the following specifications are declared suitable for the purpose of those regulations:

BRITISH STANDARDS

BS 162: 1961 Electric power switchgear and associated apparatus (including Amendments No. 1 to No. 5). Declared suitable subject to compliance with regulation 20 (1) of the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1976.

If this specification is superseded the declaration of this specification is rescinded.

BS 562: 1958 Reversible connectors (including Amendments No. 1 to No. 3).

Declared suitable subject to compliance with regulation 20 (1) (b) of the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1976. If this specification is superseded the declaration of this specification is rescinded.