Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2583

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 9th August, 1907.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

GREYMOUTH HOSPITAL.—ERECTION OF NEW WARD, ETC.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Kelsall and Son, Greymouth .. .. 4,629 12 6

Declined.
Franklin and Hoskin, Greymouth .. .. 4,650 0 0
Drake and Muir, Greymouth .. .. 4,650 1 9
Fitzgerald and Bignell, Greymouth.. .. 4,706 10 8

ERECTION OF POLICE-STATION, TAUPO.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Frankham, C. H., Auckland .. .. 797 0 0

Declined.
Banks and Chisholm, Taupo .. .. 954 13 6

Authorising the Laying-off of Wallace Road, in the Township of Waipukurau Extension No. 5, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1907.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Wallace Road, in the Township of Waipukurau Extension No. 5, 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.”

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Otago Land District subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 10th August, 1907.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Kurow Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

KUROW SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area, containing 962 acres 2 roods 12 perches, being Sections 15 and parts of 5 and closed road (Vol. 81, folio 267), Block I; Section 12, Block VIII; and Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, Block X, Kurow District. Bounded on the north-west by road-line forming the north-west boundary of said Sections 8, 7, and 6, 173·6 links, bearing 222° 13′ ; 572·1 links, bearing 205° 24′ ; 1838·3 links, bearing 215° 30′ ; 3068·9 links, bearing 210° 25′ ; 958·5 links, bearing 201° 22′ ; 1303·1 links, bearing 232° 18′ : and by mining reserve, 1706·2 links, bearing 48° 57′ ; 1900 links, bearing 67° 28′ ; and 235 links, bearing 236° 4′ : on the north-east by road-line, 902·9 links, bearing 143° 52′ : thence on the north-west by right line, 100·3 links, across road, and produced through said Section 5, 3961·8 links, bearing 49° 9′ : on the north-east by Kurow-Oamaru Railway, 5113 links, bearing 333° 33′, and 383·7 links, bearing 329° 2′ ; by right line, 1335·5 links, bearing 167° 25′ : on the south-east by Kurow River-bank Reserve, 2867·5 links, bearing 25° 40′ : on the south-west by road-line, 139·7 links, bearing 143° 52′ ; thence across road, 100·4 links, and line produced along Kurow River-bank Reserve, 1935·9 links, bearing 48° 28′, and 913·8 links, bearing 208° 36′ : on the south-west by Section 11, Block VIII, 4357·4 links, bearing 311° : on the south-east by Sections 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, and 6, Block VIII, 7990 links, bearing 41°, and 2670·7 links, bearing 54° : and on the west by Section 10, Block X, 5182·6 links, bearing 360° : be the above area, linkages, and bearings a little more or less, and intersected by a road-line 100 links wide: as the same is shown on plan marked L. and S. 19376, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red and brown.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Officiating Ministers for 1907.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1907.

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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Central Mission (Wellington).

Lorenzo Oakleith Stanton.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Population of the Colony.

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Colony of New Zealand on the 30th June, 1907.

• Excluding 776 Natives of South Sea Islands at labour abroad.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1907.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.