Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2105

Notice of Intention to take Lands for a Road through Tahoraiti No. 1 Block, Blocks I and II, Tahoraiti Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road through parts of Tahoraiti No. 1 Block, in Blocks I and II, Tahoraiti Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are 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 Dannevirke, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of such public work or the taking of such lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder :—

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Street, Pakipaki Township, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 28th July, 1906.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main street in the Township of Pakipaki, Hawke’s Bay Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Officiating Ministers for 1906.—Notice No. 28.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 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 :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Frank Gould.

The Reverend Christopher Price, M.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Alexander Miller.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Applications for Inspecting Engineer, Mines Department.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th July, 1906.

APPLICATIONS are invited for the position of Inspecting Engineer, Mines Department.

Applicants are required to state experience, and must hold a first-class mine-manager’s certificate under either the Mining Act or the Coal-mines Act, and must also be a licensed surveyor of New Zealand.

Salary, £500 per annum; limit of age, fifty years.

Applications addressed to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington, will be received up to noon of Monday, the 6th August, 1906.

T. H. HAMER,
Under-Secretary

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1906.

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. 815.]

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—JAMES MACLEAN LANGLANDS, Esq., of 23 Castle Street, Edinburgh, a Law Agent of the Supreme Court of Scotland, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Scotland, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of August, 1906.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Workers’ Dwellings for Lease.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 31st July, 1906.

PRELIMINARY notice is hereby given that twenty-five workers’ dwellings in Heretaunga Settlement, Petone, will be available for lease, under the provisions of “The Workers’ Dwellings Act, 1905,” and the regulations made thereunder, in September, 1906.

Full particulars will be published at an early date by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.

WM. C. KENSINGTON,
Under-Secretary for Lands.