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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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for the benefit of the school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving, devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of land which may be hereafter made for the benefit of the school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and subject to all such powers, provisions, and conditions as are contained in “The High Schools Reserves Act, 1880,” as if the school were a high school within the meaning of that Act.

22. Subject to the subsequent clauses of this scheme, the rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all funds which may from time to time be derived from fees or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school, together with any annual or other allowance that may be made by the General Assembly or the Government of New Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses connected therewith, and for prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships for the pupils therein: Provided that the Board shall have power to set apart, if it see fit, out of the said rents, profits, and annual income such part as it considers advisable, either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in such manner as the Board directs.

23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent, profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding section, the Board shall have power to invest the same in the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, or issued by any local authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly, and may from time to time vary such investments.

24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come into its hands by virtue of this Act or otherwise for the benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings thereon for use as boardinghouses, or residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers employed in connection with the school.

25. (1.) The school shall be open at all times to inspection by the Inspector-General of Schools, and by any other person directed by the Minister to inspect the same.

(2.) Such inspection may include examination of the pupils in the subjects of instruction taught in the school.

Dated at Wellington this sixth day of October, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 11th October, 1905.

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. 787.

Officiating Ministers for 1905.—Notice No. 29.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1905.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII., and entitled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Baptists.

The Reverend Guy Thornton.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1905.

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.

Mary Steven or Mill, late of Kaikora North, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, hospital nurse. Filed on the 26th day of September, 1905.

Robert Noble Roper, late of Hamilton, in the Provincial District of Auckland, school-teacher. Filed on the 26th day of September, 1905.

Victor Hulm or Holm, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of September, 1905.

Frederick George Charles, late of Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, storekeeper. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

Daniel Davidson, late of Picton, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, master mariner. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

Alexander Corbett, late of Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, plumber. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

John McKinnna, late of Gore, in the Provincial District of Otago, dealer. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

Patrick Callaghan, late of Gisborne, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

Sarah Ann Crowell or Organ, late of Avondale, in the Provincial District of Auckland, married woman. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

Janet McCready, late of Sydenham, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed on the 9th day of October, 1905.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

TENDERS FOR MAIL-SERVICE BETWEEN TOKAANU, WAIOURU, OHAKUNE, KARIOI, RAETIHI, MANGAITUROA, AND PIPIRIKI.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th September, 1905.

SEALED TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until Saturday, the 21st October proximo, for the conveyance of mails by four-horse coach between the undermentioned places for a period of three years, and also four years, from the 1st January, 1906:—

Tokaanu, Waiouru, Ohakune, Karioi, Raetihi, Mangaituroa, and Pipiriki, thrice-weekly between the 1st November and the 30th April, and twice-weekly between the 1st May and the 31st October, in each year.

The attention of intending tenderers is directed to the terms and conditions of contract printed on the back of the tender forms, which may be procured at the principal post-offices.

No tender will be considered unless made on the printed form.

The contractor whose tender may be accepted must be prepared to carry out the service according to a time-table framed by the Department.

As this mail-route may be shortened by railway extension, the Postmaster-General may terminate the contract on giving one month’s previous notice in writing, or may reduce the subsidy in proportion to the number of miles the service may be shortened by the length of railway opened or extended.

Tenders should be indorsed “Tender for Tokaanu-Pipiriki Mail-service.”

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.