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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

or with respect to moneys received
under any policy of life or accident
assurance, there shall be charged only
a percentage of one-half the amount
fixed under clause (a).

All sums lodged in the Public Trust
Office, or coming under the control of
the Public Trustee, which arise out of
the provisions of or come within the
meaning of “wages and effects of de-
ceased seamen,” in “The Shipping
and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” shall be
exempted from the charges hereby
imposed.

(c.) Upon the gross capital and income from
any real property administered under
“The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894”
£7½ per cent.

(d.) Upon the gross produce of rents, in-
come, or revenue received from and
under the administration of any pro-
perty pursuant to “The Native Re-
serves Act, 1882,” and its amend-
ments
£7¼ per cent.

(e.) Upon the gross proceeds of rents, in-
come, or revenue received from and
under the administration of any pro-
perty pursuant to “The West Coast
Settlement Reserves Act, 1892,” and
its amendments
£7½ per cent.

(f.) Upon unrealised real or personal pro-
perty (not being money) transferred or
delivered in specie to any person en-
titled thereto, being a devisee, legatee,
next-of-kin, cestui que trust, benefi-
ciary, or other person of a like cha-
racter, but not including a person
entitled as principal under any power
of attorney or agency, upon the value
of such property as fixed by the
Public Trustee,—

Up to but not exceeding £1,000
.. £2½ per cent.
On the next £3,000
.. £2 per cent.
On the next £6,000
.. £1 per cent.
On all over £10,000
.. 10s. per cent.

Provided that the charge hereby
made shall be payable by the person
to whom such property is transferred
or delivered, and, if more than one,
then such charge shall be made
against each person, and computed in
respect of the value of the property
transferred or delivered to him.

(g.) In all other cases not otherwise hereby
provided, on all sums lodged in the
Public Trust Office under or in pursu-
ance of the provisions of any Act,
rule, or law in that behalf at the time
of lodging the same (provided that
where no interest is allowed no com-
mission shall be charged)
.. £1 per cent.

(h.) For every lease (except leases under
“The West Coast Settlement Re-
serves Act, 1892,” and its amend-
ments) prepared by the Public Trus-
tee and executed in favour of any
lessee, exclusive of stamp duty and
registration fee to be paid by the
lessee
.. £1

(i.) For the Public Trustee’s consent to or
execution of any assignment or dispo-
sition of any leasehold not being an
assignment consequent upon a sale by
the Public Trustee
.. 5s.

(j.) For conditions of sale of any realty
.. 10s.

(k.) For conditions of sale of any personalty
.. 5s.

(l.) For application to be registered pro-
prietor under “The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1894”
.. £1

(m.) Upon any receipt under section 50 of
“The Property Law Consolidation
Act, 1883,” or section 100 of “The
Land Transfer Act, 1885,” a charge
shall be made, whether against the
estate or not, of
.. 10s.

(n.) For making any copy of any docu-
ment, 6d. per folio, but no charge less
than 1s.

(o.) For production of documents of title .. 5s.

In addition to the abovementioned charges, estates or
persons will be liable to all expenses to which the Public
Trustee may be put in postage, exchange, telegrams, legal
assistance, or legal proceedings or charges, fees payable in
any Court or public Department, surveys, the collection of
rents, auctioneers’ charges, and any other services or
expenses whatever which, in the opinion of the Public
Trustee, may be necessary or expedient to be provided or
incurred in the management of such estates :

Provided always that the Public Trustee may, with the
consent of the Board, reduce any of the charges hereinbefore
authorised.

All regulations in force under the Acts repealed by the
Act, except regulations made by the Governor or the Public
Trustee under “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act,
1892,” and “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act
Amendment Act, 1893,” on the 27th day of October, 1892,
the 31st day of October, 1892, the 14th day of December,
1892, the 13th day of February, 1893, and the 7th day of
April, 1894, are hereby revoked.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declara-
tions.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act
Amendment Act, 1888,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of
Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby notify and declare that

MICHAEL McINERNEY,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The
Post Office Act, 1900,” at Taipo, is authorised to take
and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-
and-thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace
Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of June,
one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1902.

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

The Reverend William Wollstein.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.