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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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changed from time to time, for the inspection, disinfection,
fumigation, and quarantine authorised, required, or per-
mitted by this Act. Certificates and permits herein pro-
vided for concerning articles imported, or proposed to be
imported, into this Territory, and the charges so provided
for, shall be paid for in advance before any certificate or
permit is delivered, or any of said articles are permitted to
be landed. If thereafter further expense is incurred in the
inspection, treatment, or quarantine of any of said articles,
the charges therefor shall be paid before any of said articles
shall be delivered.

Penalty.

SECTION 16. Any person violating any of the provisions of
this Act, and any master of any vessel which shall bring into
this Territory any article which the Board shall at any time
prohibit from being imported into this Territory, and the
master of any vessel from which shall be landed any article
in this Act required to be inspected, until he shall have re-
ceived a permit to land the said articles from the Board or
its officer or Inspector, as herein provided, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanour, and shall be punished by a fine not to
exceed $500, or imprisonment as aforesaid, in the discretion
of the Court.

HENRY E. COOPER,
Secretary and Executive Officer of the Board of
Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry.

Exemption of Slaughterhouse used in connection with the
Curing of Hams and Bacon.—Notice No. 863.

Department of Agriculture.
Wellington, 22nd March, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the
Governor has exempted from the operation of sub-
section (1) of section 17 of “The Slaughtering and Inspec-
tion Act, 1900,” the slaughterhouse situated on R.S. 145,
Riccarton, and used by Messrs. T. H. Green and Co.,
Bacon-curers, Christchurch, in connection with the curing
of hams and bacon.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through Sec-
tion 23, Block II., Makuri Survey District, Pahiatua
County.

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 a
road through Section 23, Block II., Makuri Survey District,
Pahiatua County, and for the purposes of such public work
the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to
be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of
the said road and of the land so required to be taken is
deposited in the Post-office at Makairo, and is there open
for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all
persons affected by the execution of the said public work or
by the taking of the said land shall, 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 pub-
lication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works,
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

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

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

T. Y. DUNCAN.
For Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Imprestees under “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 24th February, 1904.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is
hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at
the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the un-
expended balance of his account on or before Thursday,
the 31st March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to
the Treasury at Wellington the bank receipt for such repay-
ment, together with an account of his expenditure to the
same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regu-
lations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to
make immediately after the close of the financial year,
requisitions for the amount required are to be made in
such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later
than the 14th March, so that the requisite funds may be
placed at the disposal of the officer as soon after the 1st
April as possible.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Officiating Ministers for 1904.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1904.

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 Christopher Hudson Moreland, M.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend James Bonnar Russell, M.A., B.D.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Peter John Mairs.
The Reverend Basil Metson.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Government Insurance Department Agency opened at Norsewood.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 21st March, 1904.

AN agency of the above Department (Life and Accident
Branches) will be opened at

THE POST-OFFICE, NORSEWOOD,

as from the 4th April, 1904.

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 ascer-
tained 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 21st day of March, 1904.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, and
being Lot No. 370 of Section 2, on the western side of
St. John Street, in the Township of Tauranga and Pro-
vincial District of Auckland.