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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

New Plymouth Savings-bank Balance-sheet for 1897.

STATEMENT of Receipts and Payments of the New Plymouth Savings-bank for the Year ending 31st December, 1897:—

RECEIPTS.

To Balance, 1st January, 1897—
Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. £ 1,057 14 5
Post Office .. .. .. .. 40 18 11
Depositors .. .. .. .. 2,478 4 5
" interest .. .. .. .. 285 9 7
Interest from securities.. .. .. 527 18 0
" Post Office .. .. .. 13 2 3
Securities paid off .. .. .. 2,955 0 0
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£7,358 7 7
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PAYMENTS.

By Balance, 31st December, 1897—
Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. £ 275 14 0
Post Office .. .. .. .. 754 0 11
Depositors .. .. .. .. 3,059 4 9
" interest .. .. .. .. 285 9 7
Loans .. .. .. .. .. 2,870 12 6
Salary and Charges .. .. .. 109 1 10
Audit .. .. .. .. .. 4 4 0
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£7,358 7 7
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STATEMENT of ASSETS and LIABILITIES of New Plymouth Savings-bank for the Year ending 31st December, 1897.

ASSETS.

To Cash, Bank of New Zealand .. .. £ 275 14 0
" Post Office .. .. .. 754 0 11
Securities .. .. .. .. 6,690 0 0
" investment of Reserves .. .. 600 0 0
Accrued interest .. .. .. 148 7 9
Office furniture .. .. .. 19 10 3
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£8,487 12 11
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LIABILITIES.

By Depositors (373) .. .. .. £ 7,453 11 3
Balance to credit .. .. .. 1,034 1 8
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£8,487 12 11
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R. PARRIS, Vice-President.
H. WESTON,
W. L. NEWMAN,
R. COCK,
ROBT. G. BAUCHOPE,
A. SHUTTLEWORTH,
PAUL C. MORTON, Manager.

Audited and found correct, 24th January, 1898.
H. A. CHOLWILL, Auditor.

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Notice under “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the Regulations relating thereto.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1898.

THE first election of members of the College Council will be held on Monday, the 11th April, 1898; the poll closing at 5 o’clock p.m.

The members to be elected are,—

(a.) Three by members of the Legislature for the time being resident in, or representing electoral districts wholly or mainly within, the Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki Provincial Districts;

(b.) Three by persons who, being holders of a degree of any university of the United Kingdom or of any British colony, are for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(c.) Three by such persons holding certificates under section 45 of “The Education Act, 1877,” as are over the age of twenty-one years and for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(d.) Three by members of the Education Boards of the education districts wholly or partly within any of the said provincial districts.

Electoral rolls for the four classes of electors above specified will be prepared, and, for the purposes of the first election, will be closed at 5 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th March, 1898. Such rolls will be called respectively—(a) the “parliamentary,” (b) the “graduates’,” (c) the “teachers’,” and (d) the “Education Boards’” electoral roll.

Every candidate for election is to be nominated by one or more electors entitled to vote for his election, and the nomination is to bear the candidate’s consent thereto. Nominations will close at noon on Monday, the 4th April, 1898.

Applications for enrolment, and all notices, &c., relating to the election, are to be addressed to “The Returning Officer for the Victoria College Council Election, Education Department, Wellington,” from whom copies of the regulations and forms may be obtained. Copies of the Act are to be had from the Government Printer; price, 9d.

E. O. GIBBES,
Returning Officer.

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Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1898.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend William Henry Howes, B.A.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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Crown Lands Notices.

Reserve in Auckland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 15th February, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a lease for a term of fourteen years of the under-mentioned land will be submitted at public auction, under “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” at this office, on Friday, the 25th March, 1898, at 11 o’clock a.m.

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SCHEDULE.

SECTION 33, Block II., Tangihua Survey District: 65 acres. Upset annual rental, £5.

Terms.—Rent is payable half-yearly in advance. No compensation will be allowed for improvements during the currency or at the termination of lease, but the lessee may remove any buildings erected by him before the termination of the lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th February, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned kauri timber, standing upon Block XI., Waipoua Survey District, in the County of Hokianga, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 25th day of March, 1898, at 11 o’clock a.m.

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SCHEDULE.

This timber is situated about four miles from Kaihu Railway Extension Terminus. Timber to be hauled from thence to Dargaville by railway.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half the purchase-money to be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, the balance within six months thereafter. The timber to be removed within three years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.