Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1689

Election of Member of Auckland Education Board.

IT is hereby notified that
SAMUEL LUKE, Esq.,
being the only candidate nominated, is duly elected a member of the Education Board of the District of Auckland, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander McArthur, Esq., LL.D.
Dated at the office of the Education Board, Auckland, this 16th day of August, 1901.
VINCENT E. RICE,
Secretary and Returning Officer.

Election of Members of Auckland Education Board.

Education Board Office,
Auckland, 6th August, 1901.

IN accordance with the provisions of “The Education Boards Election Act, 1900,” it is hereby notified that Lemuel John Bagnall, Esq., Richard Hobbs, Esq., and James Gillies Rutherford, Esq., have been elected members of the Education Board of the District of Auckland, to fill the vacancies which will be caused by the retirement of Messrs. L. J. Bagnall, R. Farrell, and S. Luke.
The number of valid votes recorded for each candidate is as follows: For Lemuel John Bagnall, Esq., 791; for Richard Hobbs, Esq., 721; for James Gillies Rutherford, Esq., 643; for Samuel Luke, Esq., 586; for James Shiner Bond, Esq., 398; for Andrew Joseph Farmer, Esq., 316; for the Rev. Hugh Kelly, 274; for Robert Farrell, Esq., 177; for Edward Thurlow Field, Esq., 164; for Jacob Henry Wright, Esq., 156: total number of valid votes recorded, 4,231. The total number of voting-papers rejected as informal is 107.
VINCENT E. RICE,
Secretary and Returning Officer.

Election of Members of Hawke’s Bay Education Board.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Education Boards Election Act, 1900,” it is hereby notified that the following are the names of the three persons elected to fill three vacancies in the Education Board of Hawke’s Bay: 1, Charles Hall; 2, John James Patterson; 3, Samuel M’Lernon.
It is further notified that the number of valid votes recorded for each candidate was as under: Charles Hall, 225; John James Patterson, 150; Samuel M’Lernon, 129; William James Comrie, 106; James Gatland Gilberd, 83; Thomas Hallett, 76; William Frederick Knight, 72; David Arthur Baxter, 49: total, 890. The total number of valid votes recorded was 890. The total number of votes rejected as informal was 31.
Dated at Napier, this 6th day of August, 1901.
G. T. FANNIN,
Returning Officer.

Election of Members of Nelson Education Board.

Education Office,
Nelson, 6th August, 1901.

THE following are the votes recorded in the above election: viz., Talbot, George, 258; Bailie, Thomas, 251; Beuke, John Diedrich, 203; Hursthouse, Richmond, 183. The total number of votes recorded was 895. The total number of votes rejected as informal was 32.
Messrs. George Talbot, Thomas Bailie, and John Diedrich Beuke having received the greatest number of votes, I hereby declare them duly elected members of the Education Board of the District of Nelson for the ensuing three years.
STEAD ELLIS,
Returning Officer.

Election of Members of South Canterbury Education Board.

Education Office,
Timaru, 6th August, 1901.

IN compliance with “The Education Boards Election Act, 1900,” it is hereby notified that the following gentlemen have been elected to fill the annual ordinary vacancies on the South Canterbury Board of Education: namely, the Rev. George Barclay, J.P., Mr. Sandham Gillingham, and Mr. John Jackson, J.P.
The voting was as follows: Rev. George Barclay, 278 votes; Mr. Sandham Gillingham, 219 votes; Mr. John Jackson, J.P., 196 votes; Mr. Robert Skinner, 133 votes; Mr. Wm. Stephen Maslin, 110 votes. The number of valid votes polled was 372, and the number of informal votes was 23.
J. H. BAMFIELD,
Returning Officer.

Election of a Member of South Canterbury Education Board.

Education Office,
Timaru, 9th August, 1901.

MR. DANIEL McCASKILL was elected unopposed for an extraordinary vacancy as a member of the South Canterbury Board of Education, in place of Mr. Daniel Newman Inwood, J.P., resigned.
J. H. BAMFIELD,
Returning Officer.

Election of Members of Otago Education Board.

Education Office,
Dunedin, 6th August, 1901.

IN accordance with “The Education Boards Election Act, 1900,” I hereby declare that at the above-mentioned election the number of valid votes recorded for each candidate was: Sim, James, 638; Marshall, Alexander, 591; Peattie, Robert, 347; M’Neil, John, 267; Burnett, William, 264; Gow, John Cowie, 225; De Lautour, Bertrand Edgar, 223; Arbuckle, John Carse, 208; Lorie, Adolph Frederick William, 144; Braithwaite, Joseph, 141; Bell, John, 124; Baker, Thomas Norris, 80: total number of valid votes, 3,252. Total number of voting-papers rejected as informal, 71.
I therefore declare Messrs. James Sim, Alexander Marshall, and Robert Peattie duly elected members of the Education Board of the District of Otago.
P. G. PRYDE,
Returning Officer.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 14th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Auckland Branch of the Federated Seamen’s Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 91, situated at Auckland, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.
EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 14th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Federated Seamen’s Industrial Union of New Zealand of Workmen, registered No. 10, situated at Dunedin, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.
EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 100 acres, more or less, being Section 1, Parish of Koharoa, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The title is registered in the name of Thomas Houghton, described as of Auckland, settler. The land is at present occupied by William Mabey, of Maungatawhiri, Pokeno.

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 13th day of August, 1901.
J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.