APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 899

Rule.

Candidates for examination for certificates of competency
for all grades of foreign-going and home-trade certificates
will be required to be conversant with the Morse and semaphore
alphabets and with the British Signal Manual.

J. A. MILLAR.

Defining Bluff Extended River Limits for Dredges.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon me by section 189 of "The Shipping
and Seamen Act, 1908," I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of
Marine, do hereby define the Bluff restricted limits within
which extended river dredges propelled by steam, gas, oil,
fluid, electricity, or any other mechanical power than steam
may ply when going beyond river limits for the purpose of
depositing their spoil, to be within a radius of twenty miles
from the light on Sterling Point, the eastern extreme of the
Bluff.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. A. MILLAR.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1909.

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

ERECTIOn OF POST-OFFICE AT OHAKUNE.

Accepted.
Wright, J., Taumarunui .. .. .. 770 0 0

Declined.
Retter and Daley .. .. .. 880 7 4
Roth, R. .. .. .. 905 7 6
Dette and Aldridge .. .. .. 929 1 0
Wallace and Harper .. .. .. 974 9 0

Tenders.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1909.

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

AIR-RECEIVERS FOR POINT ELIZABETH No. 2 STATE COAL-MINE.

Accepted.
Dispatch Foundry Company, Greymouth .. 109 0 0

Declined.
S. Luke and Co., Wellington .. .. 113 10 0
Cooper and Duncan, Christchurch .. .. 123 0 0
J. Sparrow, Dunedin .. .. 128 0 0
Robertson and Co., Wellington .. .. 129 0 0
Cossens and Black, Dunedin .. .. 134 0 0
George Griffiths, Birchfield .. .. 134 0 0
Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company, Nelson 135 10 0
Andersons Limited, Christchurch .. .. 139 10 0
Dunedin Engineering and Steel Company .. 153 8 0
Johnston and Sons, Invercargill .. .. 167 10 0
A. and T. Burt, Dunedin .. .. 179 0 0
Stevenson and Cook, Dunedin .. .. 180 0 0

Notice of Appointment of Agent for the Public Trustee at Lawrence.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1909.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
ALEXANDER McLEAN, Esq.,
has been appointed Agent for the Public Trustee at Lawrence, from the 22nd March, 1909, vice W. R. Pearson, Esq., resigned.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under "The Public Trust Office Act, 1908" (Part II, Unclaimed Lands).

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have for the purposes of "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894," and the above Act, made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the first-named Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said Acts pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Unclaimed Lands Act or the last-named Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Acts, or one of them, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under "The Public Trust Office Act, 1908"; the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said last-named Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of March, 1909.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 40 acres, more or less, being north-east part of Allotment No. 58, Parish of Maungataniwha, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

Officiating Ministers for 1909.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1909.

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 intituled "The Marriage Act, 1908," the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Arnold Hector Norrie.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
Mr. William Thomas Aldridge.
Mr. Charles W. Brown.
Mr. T. W. Featherstone.
The Reverend William Lee.
Mr. James William Parker.
Mr. William Walker.
Mr. William Watson.

[Erratum.—In New Zealand Gazette of 21st January, 1909, page 164, Notice No. 1, for the Reverend Papakura, Neho Hemi (Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand), read the Reverend Papakakura, Neho Hemi.]

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1909.—Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1909.

THE following names have been withdrawn from the list of Officiating Ministers under "The Marriage Act, 1908," for the year 1909:

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. John Pender Bathgate.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend John B. Beeche.
Mr. Clyde L. Carr.
Mr. Frederick Eade.
The Reverend John Gillies Whait Ellis.
Mr. Mathew Joseph Evans.
Mr. Ernest Harrison.
Mr. Martin J. Hilder.
Mr. Leslie B. Neale.
Mr. William Rowe.
Mr. George Stephenson.
The Reverend Thomas Egglestone Thomas, M.A.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.