APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1077

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1903.

THE following notices of the election of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Parua Road District, County of Whangarei:
Samuel William Downard.
Joseph Gough.
John McRae.

Albertland North Road District, County of Rodney:
John Barkley.
William Bleckly Farrand.
Isaac Powell.
William Wharfe.

Cambridge Road District, County of Waikato:
Martin Butler.
Samuel Cowling.

Pukekura Road District, County of Waipa:
Robert Fisher.
Joseph Gane.
James Keeley.

Tuhikaramea Road District, County of Waipa:
Frank Joseph Vickers.
William Williamson Livingstone.
William Rothwell.

Otaki Road District, County of Horowhenua:
Fredric W. Bills.
F. C. Jones.
Geo. McBeath.
W. H. Noble.

Te Horo Road District, County of Horowhenua:
A. A. Brown.
Denis Glacken.
Alfred Monk.

Okotuku Road District, County of Patea:
Peter Emslie.
Spencer Napier.

Kohi Road District, County of Patea:
John Johnstone.
James McMeckin.
William H. Watkins.

Wairoa Road District, County of Patea:
Duncan McLean.
Charles F. M. Ross.
Oscar Symes.

Motoroa Road District, County of Patea:
Frederick Charles Death.
Thomas Wightman.

Whenuakura-Waitotara Road District, County of Patea:
No. 1 Ward—
Manley H. Wybourne.
No. 2 Ward—
Duncan McLean.
No. 3 Ward—
Isaac Lupton.

Waitotara-Momohaki Road District, County of Patea:
Gavin Hamilton Alexander.
Wilfred Hicks.
Edward Thurston.
Alfred Watton Curry.

Mount Peel Road District, County of Geraldine:
Robert Thew.
Oliver Scott Thomson.
William Dixon.

Lake Coleridge Road District, County of Selwyn:
John Murchison.
Robert Hennah.

Bonus for Treatment of Auriferous Black Sand.

Mines Department.
Wellington, N.Z., 14th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £2,000 will be paid to any person who, before the 1st January, 1904, shall invent such appliances as will successfully save gold from black sands in New Zealand.

The bonus will be paid on compliance with the following conditions:—

1. The invention shall, in its main features, differ from all machinery and appliances at present in use for the saving of gold, whether coarse or fine.

2. It shall be readily transportable from place to place, and shall be capable of utilising local water for all its requirements.

3. The invention must be capable of treating not less than 30 cubic yards an hour of black sand or any coarser material up to a diameter of 4 in.; and it must be capable of treating such material profitably where there is not more than a value, in gold, of 3d. per cubic yard; not less than 80 per cent. of the gold contained in the material to be recovered by the machine.

4. No bonus to be paid until the invention has been continuously worked for not less than six months, and it shall, during that period, have treated not less than 100,000 cubic yards of material, working three shifts a day.

5. The bonus will be paid on the certificate of an officer that not less than twenty persons other than the applicant for the bonus are successfully working the invention.

6. Any person who receives the bonus shall not be allowed to take out patent rights in New Zealand for his invention.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 27th April, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Ashburton Carpenters and Joiners’ Industrial Union of Workers, No. 264, situated at Ashburton, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 27th April, 1903.

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:—

Baptist Church,
The Reverend William Hay.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Ohotu Block.

SALE OF LEASES of about 53,580 acres of Maori Land offered under the Provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and the Regulations made thereunder.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders in sealed envelopes, indorsed “Tender for Lot __, Block District, Ohotu Block,” and addressed to the President, Aotea Maori Council, Whanganui, will be received at his office up till 4 p.m. on Monday, the 15th June, 1903, for the leases of seventy-eight lots in the Ohotu Block, which is situated about forty-five miles up the Whanganui River and about six miles south of Raetihi Township. The areas offered range from 168 to 3,530 acres, annual upset rentals from £16 16s. to £100. Terms of leases, twenty-one years, with right of renewal.

The block will be open for inspection on and after the 15th May, 1903.

Plans, containing full particulars as to areas, upset rentals, mode of tendering, &c., will shortly be obtainable at the principal post-offices, the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, and from the undersigned.

W. J. BUTLER,
President Aotea Maori Council, Whanganui.

Member of the Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School elected.

Education Board, Auckland,
22nd April, 1903.

IN accordance with “The Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899,” and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Education Board of the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the said Board held this day,

PETER MITCHELL MACKAY

was duly elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Samuel Luke.

JAMES MUIR,
Chairman of Meeting.