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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

STATEMENT showing DISCOUNT-STAMP TRANSACTIONS in the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of NEW ZEALAND during the QUARTER ended 31st DECEMBER, 1905.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1906.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1906.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1906.

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 intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend—
Walter Fairlie Evans,
George Henry Jupp.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Greenwill Carr.

Baptists.
The Reverend—
Frederick Charles Every.
Frank Macdonald.

Church of Christ.
John George Price.

Church of our Father.
The Reverend Mathew Walker.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1906.

THE Hikurangi Lodge, No. 7901, situated at Hikurangi, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 7th day of January, 1906.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1906.

THE Buller Lodge, No. 43, situated at Westport, is registered as a branch 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 24th day of January, 1906.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Government Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Te Puke.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 16th January, 1906.

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

THE POST-OFFICE, TE PUKE,
as from the 22nd January, 1906.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Pastoral Run in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 22nd January, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 28th day of February, 1906, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and Part VI of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

QUARANTINE Reserve at Te Waewae Point, Bluff Harbour, known as Pastoral Run No. 420, Campbelltown Hundred: 5,640 acres; upset annual rental, £52 17s. 6d.; term, fourteen years.

Locality and Description of Run.

Run 420 is situated in Campbelltown Hundred, Southland County, immediately across the harbour from the Bluff, and extends eastward for about nine miles between the ocean and Awarua Bay. The whole block is level, about 30 ft. above the sea, and is of a dry gravelly formation with the exception of a small area of swamp land towards the east boundary. In some places it is fairly well grassed, principally with snow-tussock; in other places considerable areas of moss are in evidence, as well as a few patches of stunted scrub towards the sea. Stock can be driven to and from this run round Awarua Bay from Woodend, some twelve miles.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1907.
Valuation for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Invercargill, before the licensees will be let into possession.
The purchaser must deposit a statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first half-year’s rent and license fee of £1 1s. on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.