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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

sense of belonging to the public, and is not under the
control of an association, society, or club whose membership
is composed of a section of the community only; that the
information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix
hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of
accounts is a true statement of the receipts and expendi-
ture of the institution for the year herein specified; that
the whole of the subsidy received during the year was
expended in the purchase of books for the library; and
that by the rules of the library it is open to the public
free of charge.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of “The
Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.” (Signature.)
Declared at , this day of , 190 ,
before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or
Notary Public].
[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.]
[NOTE.—The words relating to last year’s subsidy and
to free admission may be struck out if they are not ap-
plicable. The words in brackets are not part of the form,
but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted].
Copies of the form of application may be obtained from
the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the
Secretary of any Education Board.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Christmas and New Year Holidays.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th November, 1908.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Friday,
the 25th December, Saturday, the 26th December, and
Monday, the 28th December, 1908, and Friday, the 1st
January, and Saturday, the 2nd January, 1909, will be
observed as holidays in the public offices of the Government
of New Zealand.

By order.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Examination for Dredgemasters’ Certificates.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 9th October, 1908.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as
dredgemasters, under “The Mining Act, 1908,” will
be held on Tuesday, the 13th April, 1909, at Greymouth
and Clyde. All applications, with necessary certificates,
and fee of £1 by post-office order, should be addressed to
“The Secretary, Board of Examiners under the Mining
Act, Wellington,” and must be received on or before the
8th March, 1909. Forms of application may be obtained
from Inspectors of Mines, Westport, Reefton, Clyde, and
Dunedin.

H. E. RADCLIFFE,
Secretary to Board of Examiners.

NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for
examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary
stating that his certificates of service have been accepted by the
Board.

Examination for Mine-managers’ and Battery Superintendents’
Certificates.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 9th October, 1908.

WRITTEN and oral examinations of candidates for cer-
tificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers
and Battery Superintendents under “The Mining Act,
1908,” and First- and Second-class Mine-managers under
“The Coal-mines Act, 1908,” will be held on Tuesday,
the 6th April, 1909, and following days, at the Thames,
Waihi, Reefton, and Dunedin. All applications, with neces-
sary certificates, and fee of £1 by post-office order, should
be addressed to “The Secretary, Board of Examiners under
the Mining Act [or Coal-mines Act], Wellington,” and must
be received on or before the 8th March, 1909. Forms
of application may be obtained at any School of Mines, and
from Inspectors of Mines.

H. E. RADCLIFFE,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

[NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for
examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary stating
that his certificates of service have been accepted by the Board.]

Officiating Ministers for 1908.—Notice No. 43.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1908.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year
of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and in-
titled “The Marriage Act, 1908,” the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information:—

Seventh-day Adventists.
Pastor Jesse Pallant.

Church of God.
Pastor David Nield.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15
of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1908.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1908.

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.

Nairn, William Robertson, late of Otatara, in the Provincial District of Otago, farmer. Filed on the 12th day of November, 1908.

Feely, John, late of Island Bay, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 13th day of November, 1908.

Neagle, Winifred Violet Gwendoline, late of Dannevirke, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, married woman. Filed on the 16th day of November, 1908.

Fisk, William Doberter, late of Reefton, in the Provincial District of Nelson, old-age pensioner. Filed on the 18th day of November, 1908.

Kearney, Jane Wilson, late of Apiti, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 18th day of November, 1908.

Beswick, George, late of Birkdale, in the Provincial District of Auckland, bricklayer. Filed on the 18th day of November, 1908.

Hervey, Joseph, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 20th day of November, 1908.

Stoddart, Margaret, late of Seacliff, in the Provincial District of Otago, housekeeper. Filed on the 21st day of November, 1908.

Ryley, Walter, late of Epsom, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 23rd day of November, 1908.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed
Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing
56 acres, more or less, being the south part of Allotment
No. 65, Parish of Kaeo, in the Provincial District of
Auckland. Bounded on the north by other part of Allot-
ment No. 65, 3200 links; on the east by lines, 500 links,
201 links, 148 links, 562 links, and 30 links; on the south
by Allotment No. 66, 4840 links; and on the west by a
road. The registered owner of the land is John Stewart
Crowe, described as of Taranaki, military settler, who
cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted in-
quiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the
owner or owners of the above-described land is or are,
and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the
Dominion :

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, with-
in six months of the date of the publication of this notice
in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the
Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in
this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not,