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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Packages containing plans and specifications entered for
these competitions should be addressed to the Secretary for
Agriculture, Wellington, and marked outside “Cowshed
Competition” or “Silo Competition,” as the case may be,
and forwarded so as to reach him by the 31st August, 1902.
The plans must be signed with a nom de plume, and must
bear no indication as to the competitor’s name; the com-
petitor’s signature and nom de plume must, however, be
forwarded in a sealed envelope in the same package with
the plans.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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 assessed value of the said land is less
than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of June, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 75 acres, being the north-
eastern portion of Allotment 9, Parish of Owhiwa, in the
Provincial District of Auckland.

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 assessed value of the said land is
less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of June, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 1 acre, being Allot-
ment 179, Section 2, Town of Opotiki, 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
2 roods, more or less, being Sections 32, 33, 34, and 35, in
the Township of Pounamu and Provincial District of
Westland. The grantee is William Craten Fortescue
Armstrong, described as of Pounamu, gentleman, 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 14th day of June, 1902.

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
3 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Section 24 of the
Township of Hampden, in the Provincial District of
Hawke’s Bay. The grantee was William Currie, of
Hawke’s Bay, shepherd; the owner is supposed to be
one Joseph Brown, who left the locality for the South
Island over thirty years ago; and neither of whom can
now be found.

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 17th day of June, 1902.

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, 17th June, 1902.

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.

Percy Rogers, late of Machavie, South Africa, soldier.
Filed on the 11th day of June, 1902.

William Magee, late of Seacliff Asylum, in the Provincial
District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 11th day of
June, 1902.

George Wilson, late of Waipahi, in the Provincial District
of Otago, rabbiter. Filed on the 11th day of June, 1902.

George Schriiffer, late of Allanton, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 16th day of June,
1902.

John Martin Olsen, late of Ahaura, in the Provincial
District of Nelson, dredge-hand. Filed on the 16th day of
June, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Result of an Election under “The Government Railways De-
partment Classification Act, 1901.”—Railway Boards of
Appeal.

New Zealand Government Railways,
Head Office, Wellington, 18th June, 1902.

ALFRED DUNN being the only member nominated
to represent the members of the Traffic and Stores
Branches on the Railway Board of Appeal for the Middle
Island, I hereby declare him duly elected to act as a mem-
ber of that Board.

R. W. McVILLY,
Returning Officer.

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