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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation to the undermentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.
Commissioner’s Order No. 728.]

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 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:—

Central Mission (Wellington).
Mr. Nicholas Turner.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Working-men’s Club registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1903.

THE City Working-men’s Club, situated at Wellington, is registered as a working-men’s club under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 29th day of October, 1903.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Ascertainment of Names of Beneficial Owners of Part of Motiti B Block.

NOTICE is hereby given that, at a sitting of the Court to be held at Tauranga on Friday, the 20th day of November, 1903, further inquiry will be held, under the provisions of section 14 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” to ascertain who were the 187 Natives whose names were decided upon at a meeting of the Patuwai Tribe held at Tauranga in February, 1886, as the beneficial owners of the northern portion of Motiti B Block. All persons interested are hereby notified to attend at the time and place aforesaid.

Dated at Auckland, this 27th day of October, 1903.

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.

Meeting of Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council at Otorohanga. — “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

Maori Lands Administration Office,
Otorohanga, 31st October, 1903.

A MEETING of the above-mentioned Council will be held at Otorohanga on Tuesday, the 24th November, 1903, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, to deal with objections to the Otorohanga Township plan that have been lodged with the President of the Council; also to deal with applications by beneficial owners for reserves of portions of the said township for their use and occupation, and any other business that may be lawfully brought before the Council.

GEO. T. WILKINSON,
President.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

John Creighton, late of Ardmore, Papakura, in the Provincial District of Auckland, bushman. Filed on the 28th day of October, 1903.

Archibald Neil Campbell, late of Stewart Island, in the Provincial District of Otago, gentleman. Filed on the 28th day of October, 1903.

Daniel Fitzgerald, late of Springfield, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, old-age pensioner. Filed on the 28th day of October, 1903.

John Maclear, late of Culverden, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 28th day of October, 1903.

William Digby Miller, late of Masterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, huntsman. Filed on the 28th day of October, 1903.

John Augustus Miller, late of Arrowtown, in the Provincial District of Otago, journalist. Filed on the 31st day of October, 1903.

Finlay Maclean, otherwise known as Frederick Maclean, late of Highfield, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 31st day of October, 1903.

George Ingles Merrie, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, tailor. Filed on the 31st day of October, 1903.

Henry Schmitt, late of Marakopa, Kawhia, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 31st day of October, 1903.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.