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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

O’SULLIVAN’S ROAD BRIDGE CONTRACT, BULLER RIVER.

Accepted.

Sigley, Joseph, Greymouth .. .. 4,643 12 0

Declined.

McWilliams and Andrews, Wellington .. 5,278 10 0
Fitzgerald and Bignell, Greymouth .. 5,540 10 0
O’Connor, Maurice, Wellington .. .. 5,655 13 4
McLean, D., Wellington .. .. 6,500 0 0
Atkinson, S. and R., Westport .. .. 6,689 7 0

ERECTON OF POST-OFFICE, DEVONPORT.

Accepted.

Morris, E., Auckland .. .. .. 2,159 0 0

Declined.

Kay, R., Auckland .. .. .. 2,188 0 0
Guthrie and Colebourne, Auckland .. 2,190 0 0
Mathieson, J. G., Auckland .. .. 2,277 6 0
McAdam, C., Auckland .. .. .. 2,284 17 8
Morris, James, Mount Eden .. .. 2,416 4 1

In the matter of the land known as Ngamoe Block, situate in the Waipu District, in the Land District of Poverty Bay.

WHEREAS by section 11 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1904,” as amended by section 11 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1906,” it is enacted that it is lawful for the Governor by Order in Council to appoint one or more Royal Commissions to investigate, inter alia, the claims and allegations of certain Natives claiming to be interested in the said land, and that the said enactment should operate as a caveat against the registration of any further dealings with the said land, or the issue of any orders still remaining in the custody of the Court, until Parliament has dealt with the recommendation of such Royal Commission or Commissions, or until the Minister by notice in the Gazette and Kahiti declares that the necessity for such caveat or non-issue of orders no longer exists either as to the whole or any portion of the said land: Now, therefore, I, James Carroll, the Native Minister, in pursuance of the premises and in exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, hereby declare that in the case of the said land known as Ngamoe the necessity for such caveat no longer exists, and that the said caveat against the registration of dealings and the issue of orders shall be and the same is hereby withdrawn.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of September, 1907.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Postponement of Meeting of the Board appointed under “The Agricultural Implement Manufacture, Importation, and Sale Act, 1905.”

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1907.

THE meeting of the Board constituted under the above Act summoned to be held at Christchurch, in the Provincial Hall, at 10 a.m. on Monday, 26th August, 1907, to inquire into a complaint made under section 4 of the Act, is hereby postponed until Tuesday, 17th September, 1907, when the Board will meet at the same time and place.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Customs.

Requisition as to taking Land compulsorily under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, on behalf of His Majesty, to take compulsorily, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments, the land the acreage, description, and classification of which, as also the names and addresses of the owners of such land, are specified in the Schedule hereto; and every owner of the land, and also every other person having any estate or interest therein, is hereby required to serve their respective claims for compensation on the Minister of Lands, in the form and manner and within the period provided by the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CULVERDEN ESTATE.

ACREAGE and Description.—All that area, containing 25,155 acres, more or less, known as the Culverden Estate, consisting of Sections 1 to 12, 12, 13 to 17, 17, 18 to 21, 21, 22 to 29, 49, 61 to 63, 75, 76, 76A, 77 to 83, 85 to 101, 105 to 116, 125 to 129, 189 to 232, 234, 237, and 238, Culverden and Mandamus Survey Districts, Canterbury Land District, as shown in certificate of title, Vol. 194, folios 240 and 241.

The Minister’s classification of the land: First-class, 8,910 acres; second-class, 9,883 acres; third-class, 6,362 acres.

The land intended to be taken is the whole of the owners’ interest.

The registered owners are the trustees of Sir J. Cracroft Wilson’s estate, Messrs. E. C. J. Stevens and R. M. Macdonald.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of August, 1907.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Officiating Ministers for 1907.—Notice No. 37.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1907.

AT the request of the President of the Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand, the name of Mr. Charles John Bush has been withdrawn from the List of Officiating Ministers in connection with that religious body, under “The Marriage Act, 1904,” for the year 1907.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Wellington Education Board.—Extraordinary Election, Wellington City Ward.

THE following is the result of the voting for the election of a member to the Wellington City Ward of the Wellington Education Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Rev. W. A. Evans:—

Aitken, John Guthrie Wood .. .. 51 votes.
Ferguson, John .. .. .. 32 “
Valid votes, 83; invalid votes, 4.

I therefore declare JOHN GUTHRIE WOOD AITKEN to be duly elected a member of the Wellington Education Board, representing Wellington City Ward.

J. VARNHAM,
Acting Returning Officer.

Education Board,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1907.

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 ascertained 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 2nd day of September, 1907.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 60 acres, more or less, being the south-western portion of Section No. 108 and the north-eastern portion of Section No. 109, Ruatangata, in the Provincial District of Auckland.