Aug. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1879

Port of Auckland.

Ground floor of a brick building roofed with iron, situate in Gore Street, Block 19, Subdivision 2, City of Auckland, to be known as

CHAMBERS No. 2 BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 724.]

Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Maungakaretu and Rangiwaera Blocks, and Section 2, Block VI., Maungakaretu Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and section 16 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was duly taken and laid off, in March, 1903, through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by Warrants dated 24th June, 1898, 14th November, 1901, 20th January, 1903, and 14th February, 1903.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 16th day of August, 1903.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in the City of Christchurch for an Extension to the Chief Post-office.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of an extension to the Chief Post-office in the City of Christchurch, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Public Works Office, Christchurch, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20497, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three.

WM. HALL-JONES.
Minister for Public Works.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Gladstone Borough, the Piako County, and the Epsom Road District.—Notice No. 804.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 26th August, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local governing bodies have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

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

The Reverend Alfred Salter Buckland.

The Reverend Herbert Reeve.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.