SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1923

4. The acreage and the Minister’s classification of the whole estate is: Acreage, 15,656 acres, more or less; Minister’s classification, second-class.

5. (a.) The owner in fee-simple is Arthur Harding, farmer, Siberia, Ashhurst, as executor of the will of John Harding, deceased.

(b.) The registered owners of any lesser estate or interest are as set out hereunder:—

John Sawers, Charles Robert Cowper, and Charles James Henderson, all care of Bank of Australasia, Collins Street, Melbourne: First mortgagees of the whole estate.

The Bank of Australasia: Second mortgagees of the whole estate.

Jeremiah Hayes, of Waipukurau, farmer: Lessee of part of Block XIV., containing 45 acres, or thereabouts.

George Gardner, of Waipawa, farmer: Lessee of part of Block XIV., containing 13 acres 2 roods 17 perches, or thereabouts; and the Waipawa County Building and Investment Society as mortgagees.

Alexander Todd, of Waipawa, medical practitioner: Lessee of part of Block 72, containing 19 acres 3 roods 21 perches, or thereabouts; and the Waipawa County Building and Investment Society as mortgagees.

Catherine Annand, wife of James Stewart Annand, bootmaker: Sub-lessee of the aforesaid interest of Alexander Todd.

(c.) In addition to the persons above mentioned, the following persons are stated by the owner to be in occupation of portions of the said estate: Adolf Brewer, James Williams, Francis Shanly, W. G. Elford, Mrs. Mitton, John Brinson, James McIntyre, Mrs. Cox, T. Blank, M. Maroney, C. Brown, Joseph King, David Annand, J. S. Annand, Mrs. Wells, and E. Denniston.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of August, 1903.

R. J. SEDDON,
For Minister of Lands.

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.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1903.

THE following notices of the elections 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.

Maungatawhiri Road District, County of Manukau:
William Horace Penrhys Evans.

Lake Coleridge Road District, County of Selwyn:
George Gerard.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 28.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.

Wilson, Mr. James.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

[NOTE.—The names of the Reverend Charles Thomas McFarlane and of the Reverend Frederick James Tylee have been withdrawn from the list of officiating ministers for 1903 by direction of the President of the above Church.]

Branches of a Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1903.

THE Shannon Lodge, No. 29, situated at Shannon, and the Eltham Lodge, No. 32, situated at Eltham, are registered as branches of the District Grand Lodge of the North Island of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 2nd day of September, 1903.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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

New Zealand Government Railways,
Head Office, Wellington, 1st September, 1903.

THE following is the result of an election of an elective member to represent the Locomotive Running Branch, Second Division, on the Railway Board of Appeal for the Middle Island, constituted under “The Government Railways Department Classification Act, 1901”:—

Votes.
Wilson, David .. .. .. 237
Dawson, John .. .. .. 160

I hereby declare DAVID WILSON duly elected to act as a member of the Middle Island Board.

R. W. McVILLY,
Returning Officer.

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

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

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Dunedin Carriers Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 75, situated at Dunedin, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDW. TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Government Insurance Department. — Agency of the Life Branch opened at Taihape.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 25th August, 1903.

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

The Post-office, Taihape,

as from the 7th September, 1903.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.