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Clerk, Insurance Office, appointed.
Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1875.
THE following appointment has been made in the
Government Insurance Department :—
THOMAS JOHN BOYES, Clerk.
This appointment to have effect from 1st January,
1875.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Post Offices opened as Government Life Insurance
Offices.
Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1875.
NOTICE is hereby given that, the under-mentioned
Post Offices have been opened as Government
Life Insurance Offices, viz.,-
Castle Point, Wellington.
Okain's Bay, Canterbury.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Insurance Agent appointed.
Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.
THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
Agent for the Industrial Branch of this De-
partment, under "The Government Insurance and
Annuities Act, 1874," for the Lodge and at the
place set opposite his name:-

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Medical Referee appointed.
Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.
THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
Medical Referee for the Industrial Branch of
this Department, under "The Government Insurance
and Annuities Act, 1874," for the Lodge and at
the place set opposite his name :--

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Depositaries of Duty Stamps appointed.
Office of the Commissioner of Stamps,
Wellington, 9th April, 1875.
IT is hereby notified for public information, that
Mr. REUBEN BINSTEAD,

Bookseller, of Christchurch, in the Province of Can-
terbury, and
Mr. S. H. LUXFORD,
Postmaster at Hurunui, in the Province of Canter-
bury, have been appointed Depositaries of Duty
Stamps.
R. C. HAMMERTON,
Secretary for Stamps.

"Marriage Act, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1875.---NOTICE No. 13.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1875.
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 name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:—
Free Church of Scotland.
The Reverend Alexander Shepherd.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

NOTICE.
"Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking Act, 1866."
NOTICE is hereby given, that it is intended to
introduce a Bill into the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago at its next Session, authorizing
the Superintendent of the Province of Otago
compulsorily, for the purpose of making roads in the
District of Portobello, parts of Sections numbered
respectively twenty-two (22) and twenty-eight (28),
Block numbered five (V.), Portobello District, and
in the District of Papakaio, part of Land sold under
application numbered 2229, Block numbered IV.
on the map of the Papakaio District. And notice is
hereby further given, that a copy of the Bill so
intended to be introduced as aforesaid may be in-
spected at the office of the Clerk of the Provincial
Council, on and after the seventeenth day of April
next.
Dated at Dunedin, this eleventh day of March,
1875.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

NOTICE.
"Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking Act, 1866."
NOTICE is hereby given, that it is intended to
introduce a Bill into the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago, at its next Session, author-
izing the Superintendent of the Province of Otago
to take compulsorily, for the purpose of making
roads in the District of Portobello, parts of Sections
numbered respectively twenty-two (22) and twenty-
eight (28), Block numbered five (V.), Portobello
District; in the District of Papakaio, part of land
sold under application numbered 2229, Block num-
bered IV. on the map of the Papakaio District; and
in the Wyndham District, parts of Sections numbered
respectively five (5), twenty-eight (28), and thirty-
three (33), Block numbered two (II.), on the map of
the Wyndham District. And notice is hereby further
given that a copy of the Bill so intended to be intro-
duced as aforesaid, may be inspected at the office
of the Clerk of the Provincial Council, on and after
the seventeenth day of April next.
Dated at Dunedin, this twenty-second day of
March, 1875.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.