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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the twenty-eighth day of February, in the same year,
or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN, Presiding.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS—1871.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1870.

WHEREAS by "The Census Acts Amendment
Act, 1867," it is enacted that, in addition to
the General Census provided for in "The Census
Act, 1858," as amended by "The Census Acts
Amendment Act, 1860," and the said "Census Acts
Amendment Act, 1867," an account shall be taken
in the month of February, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, and in the same month,
or in such other month as the Governor shall from
time to time appoint in every succeeding year, of the
land in cultivation within New Zealand, and of the
agricultural produce thereof:

Now therefore, I do hereby notify, that the Enu-
merators and Sub-Enumerators appointed or to be
appointed under the said Acts for the collection of
the next General Census shall be also respectively
Superintendent-Collectors and Collectors for obtain-
ing the information above referred to, and shall,
during the month of February, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, obtain such information
according to Forms and Instructions which will be
issued by the Government for the purpose.

W. GISBORNE,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Census
Enumerators under the Census Acts, and Superin-
tendent Collectors under "The Census Acts Amend-
ment Act, 1867":—

R. B. LUSK, Esq. ... Province of Auckland;
CHARLES D. WHITCOMBE, " Taranaki;
Esq.
EDWARD L. GREEN, Esq. " Hawke's Bay;
JONAS WOODWARD, Esq.... " Wellington;
ROBERT POLLOCK, Esq. " Nelson;
JAMES B. WEMYSS, Esq.... " Marlborough;
THOMAS W. MAUDE, Esq. " Canterbury;

GERARD G. FITZGERALD, County of Westland;
Esq.
JOHN HISLOP, Esq. ... Province of Otago
(according to the territory comprised in that Province
before its recent union with Southland);
DAVID MACRORIE, Esq. ... Southland
(according to the territory comprised in the Province of
Southland before its recent union with Otago).
W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The CENSUS ENUMERATORS
(under the Census Acts), and

SUPERINTENDENT COLLECTORS
(under "The Census Acts Amendment Act, 1867"),
a notification of whose appointments appears in this
Gazette, or whose appointments may be hereafter
notified in any subsequent Gazette, to frank and
receive, free from prepayment of postage, for a period
of six months from this date, Letters or Packets
addressed from or to them "On Census Business
Only," or "On Business of Agricultural Statistics
Only."

HENRY SEWELL,
Acting Postmaster-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1870.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information :-

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend THOMAS SCOTT, B.A.
The Reverend LAURENCE CARSLEY BRADY.
The Reverend EZRA ROBERT OTWAY.
The Reverend ALEXANDER CHALMERS SOUTAR.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAMES of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 29th of January; No 7, of
the 5th of February; No. 13, of the 12th of March;
No. 21, of the 20th of April; No. 23, of the 4th
of May; No. 24, of the 12th of May; No. 26, of
the 26th of May; No. 29, of the 8th of June; No. 35,
of the 30th of June; No. 36, of the 7th of July; No.
40, of the 27th of July; and No. 58, of the 24th of
October, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
eighth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.