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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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as a Member of the Oamaru Racecourse Trust; and
to appoint

JOHN STUBBS WAIT, Esq.,
to be a Member of the said Trust.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Member of Land Board appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN WALKER MITCHELL, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Land Board of the District of
Southland, in the place of Thomas Pratt, Esq., whose
term of office has expired.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Assistant Draughtsman appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WINSLOW SCANLAN, Esq.,
to be an Assistant Draughtsman in the Survey Depart-
ment of New Zealand. Appointment dating from 9th
December, 1878.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 4th February, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease in the Nelson
South-West Mining District cancelled, and that the
ground is now open for application as if no lease of
the said ground had ever been applied for :--

No. 718. Richard Pennefather, Thomas Hobson,
Alexander McCloy, Charles Morel, and John Brennan;
10 acres 1 rood 25 perches, Lyell District.

JOHN HALL,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

Member of St. Bathans Local Board of Health
appointed.

Wellington, 5th February, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the
powers vested in it by the fourteenth section of
"The Public Health Act, 1876," the Central Board
of Health has appointed

Mr. ALBERT HILL,
of St. Bathans, in the County of Maniototo, to be a
Member of the Local Board of Health (vice Mr.
Samuel Hanger, deceased) for the District of St.
Bathans, as the same is hereinafter described, that is
to say: Commencing at a point on the east bank of
the Dunstan Creek, opposite the outlet of the St.
Bathans Sludge Channel; from thence a straight
line to the bridge over Muddy Creek Channel, Black-
stone Hill Road; from there the course of Muddy
Creek to Ewing's Reservoir, Surface Hill; from there
a straight line to the junction of Wheeler's Gully
and the Dunstan Creek; from there the course of the
Dunstan Creek to the starting point.

JOHN HALL,
Colonial Secretary, and Chairman Central
Board of Health.

"The Property Assessment Act, 1879."

Government Offices, Wellington,
20th January, 1880.

THE following sections of the Property Assessment
Act are published for general information.

J. SPERREY,
Commissioner.

18. Every company, including banking and insur-
    ance companies, carrying on business in New Zealand
    at the commencement of this Act, shall at all times be
    represented by a person residing in the colony; and
    a place within the colony shall be appointed from
    time to time by every such company as aforesaid at
    which any notices or other instruments affecting the
    company under this Act may be served or delivered.
    (1.) Such person shall be called the "Public
    Officer" of the company for the purposes of this
    Act, and shall be appointed as follows :--
    (a.) In the case of a company having a local
    Board of Directors or Managers resident in the
    colony, within three months after the passing
    of this Act:
    (b.) In the case of a company not having such
    local Board as aforesaid, within six months after
    the passing of this Act.
    The office of Public Officer shall be kept con-
    stantly filled by the making of fresh appoint-
    ments thereto from time to time as may be
    necessary.
    (2.) Every new company shall, within three
    months after it shall commence or enter into busi-
    ness after the passing of this Act, appoint a Public
    Officer, and name a place for delivery of notices as
    aforesaid.
    (3.) Every company failing or neglecting, within
    the time hereinbefore limited in that behalf, to ap-
    point a Public Officer, or name a place at which
    notices or other instruments may be served or de-
    livered as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding fifty pounds a day for every day after the
    time aforesaid during which such neglect shall con-
    tinue.

Officiating Ministers for 1880.-Notice No. 1.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th January, 1880.

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 list of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information :--

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend Philip Cuthbert Anderson
" John Chapman Andrew, M.A.
" Thomas Edward Ash, B.A.
" Benjamin Yate Ashwell
" William Aylmer, M.A.
" Frederick Thomas Baker
" William Ballachey
" Joseph Bates
" George Philip Beaumont, M.A.
" Robert O'Callaghan Biggs
" William Booth
" Thomas Adolphus Bowden, B.A.
" Croasdaile Bowen, B.D.
" Reginald Robert Bradley, B.A,
" Edward Nugent Bree
" Frederick George Brittan, M.A.