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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 101

expenditure of the institution for the year herein specified; that the whole of the subsidy received during the year was expended in the purchase of books for the library; and that by the rules of the institution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.” (Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 190 , before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to last year’s subsidy and to free admission may be struck out if they are not applicable. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of application may be obtained from the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the Secretary of any Education Board.

W. C. WALKER.

“The Companies Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1900,”
Section 10, (4).

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1901.

I HEREBY give notice that the under-mentioned companies have been struck off the register of the Assistant Registrar of Joint-stock Companies at Dunedin, in terms of section 10, (4), of “The Companies Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1900”:

The Equitable Investment Company of New Zealand (Limited).
The Freemasons’ Hall Company (Limited).
The Totara Tree Stone Company (Limited).
The Tuapeka Milling Company (Limited).
The Cromwell Brewery Company (Limited).
The Bella Quartz-mining Company (Limited).
The Matakītaki Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
The St. Clair Park Company (Limited).
The Matau Coal Company (Limited).
The People’s Journal Company (Limited).
The Denton Hat Mills (Limited).
The Beaumont Local Co-operative Gold-mining Company (Limited).
The Morton Gold-saving Company (Limited).
The Upper Waikais Sluicing Company (Limited).
The Golden Mariotte Sluicing Company (Limited).
The Hauraki Sterling Dredging Company (Limited).
The Shepherds’ Creek Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
The Bichloride of Gold Company of New Zealand (Limited).
The Inchholme Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
The Central Magnetic Dredging Company.
The Eclipse Check-book Company (Limited).

C. A. HICKSON,
Registrar of Joint-stock Companies.

“The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896.”

Tauranga, 14th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commissioners appointed under “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896,” will sit at Ruatoki, on Monday, the 13th day of January, 1902, to inquire as to what people are entitled to lands within the boundaries described in “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896,” and “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act Amendment Act, 1900.”

D. SCANNELL,
Chairman.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered

under the said Act, the value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of November, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 37 acres, more or less, being north-western portion of Allotment 152, Parish of Makarau, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 10 acres, more or less, being Allotment 7 of Section 5 in the Parish of Waipipi and Provincial District of Auckland. The grantee is Andrew Burns, who is described as of Shortland, miner, who never uplifted his title, and cannot be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 20th day of November, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Appointment of Agent of the Public Trustee at Lawrence.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1901.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

WILLIAM RICHARD PEARSON, Esq.,

has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. J. J. Gibson, deceased, as Sub-Agent for the Public Trustee at Lawrence from the 1st December, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

George Henry Wingate, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington. Filed on the 20th day of November, 1901.

William Alfred Bragge, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, joiner. Filed on the 20th day of November, 1901.

James Weathers, late of Kaiwaka, in the Provincial District of Auckland, farmer. Filed on the 22nd day of November, 1901.

William Coulson, late of Kennedy Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 25th day of November, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 75 acres, more or less, being north-eastern portion of Allotment 9, Parish of Owhiwa. The grantee is Isabella Brown, described as of Whangarei, settler, who never uplifted her title, and who cannot be traced. The owners of the adjoining lands are Mr. W. Morkby and Mr. George Harnett.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony: