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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

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.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of May, 1903. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

From Self-registering Instruments, for Twenty-four Hours previously.

• Means, &c.
  † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—An exceptionally wet month, the rainfall being very much above the average; maximum fall on 28th, 1·58 in. Prevailing wind, north-west. Maximum temperature in shade, 65·5°; minimum, 36·5°. Mean temperature of dew-point, 44·9°; mean humidity, 80.
A. H. GORE,
Acting Observer.

Government Insurance Department: Agency of the Life Branch opened at Rongotea.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 10th June, 1903.

AN Agency of the Life Branch of the above Department will be opened at

The Post-office, Rongotea,

as from the 22nd June, 1903.
J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

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 land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of June, 1903.
A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 40 acres, more or less, being the north-eastern portion of Lot 12, Parish of Waikiekie, 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 value of the land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of June, 1903.
A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 60 acres, more or less, being the south-eastern portion of Allotment 1, in the Parish of Tauraroa and 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 1 rood, more or less, being section numbered 15 on a plan of subdivision of France’s Block, in the Town of Oamaru, in the Provincial District of Otago, which said plan is deposited in the Deeds Register Office, Dunedin, under the number 131. The said land has a frontage to Usk Street of 100 links by a depth of 250 links. The last registered owner is Thomas Elliott, of Hilderthorpe, near Oamaru, carpenter, of whom nothing can be traced. The land is occupied by Alfred Smith.

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 10th day of June, 1903.
A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Adoption of Child under Section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the adoption particulars of which are set out hereunder has been duly registered by me under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”
R. C. SIM,
Registrar.

PARTICULARS OF ADOPTION OF CHILD.

To the Registrar of the Native Land Court, Wellington District.

I, TE RETIMANA TE KAMA, of Takapau, hereby give notice that I have taken Hohepa Paewai, a child of Akura Paewai and Tangi Paewai, to be my adopted child according to Maori custom; and I request that such adoption be registered under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”

As witness my hand, this 11th day of June, 1903.
TE RETIMANA TE KAMA.

Signed by the said Te Retimana te Kama in the presence of — J. Lindsay Buick, J.P., and William Moffatt, Licensed Interpreter, First Grade, of Palmerston North.