1904
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

and that any postal packet addressed to such persons or company shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered, by the Post Office of New Zealand, and orders that such money-orders shall be issued, and that such postal packets shall be registered, forwarded, and delivered, in the usual course.

SCHEDULE.

Sir Robert Bear, 16 Park Street, Sydney.
Modern Medical Publishing Company, 16 Park Street, Sydney.
A. K. Smith, 16 Park Street, Sydney.
Sir Robert Bear, Professor of Music, Pitt Street, Sydney.

Dated this 15th day of July, 1909.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Acting Postmaster-General.

Amendments to Regulations under which Commissions may be obtained in the British Army.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1909.

THE following amendments, made by Army Order No. 109 of 1909, to the regulations under which Commissions in the British Army may be obtained by University Candidates, and Officers of Colonial Military Forces, are republished for general information.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

D. 09/2231.]

REGULATIONS UNDER WHICH COMMISSIONS IN THE BRITISH ARMY MAY BE OBTAINED BY UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES, ISSUED WITH ARMY ORDER NO. 191 OF 1907, AND OFFICERS OF COLONIAL MILITARY FORCES, ISSUED WITH ARMY ORDER NO. 164 OF 1907.

1. In Sections 2 and 4 of Appendix III of (a) and (c), and of Appendix IV of (b) above, for “Combined Training” substitute “Field Service Regulations, Part I, Operations, 1909.”

2. The following amendment will also be made in Section 2 of Appendix III of the regulations referred to at (b) above, as amended by Army Order 312 of 1908: For “Chapter IV, Combined Training,” substitute “Chapter V, Field Service Regulations, Part I, Operations, 1909.”

Agreement for Grant of Right of Way in favour of Leah Davis over Courthouse Land assented to.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the 6th day of March, 1908, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, all that piece of land, containing 1 rood 11·45 perches, portions of Allotments 28 and 29, Section 4, City of Auckland, was taken for the purposes of a Courthouse: And whereas Leah Davis, of the City of Auckland, wife of Moss Davis, of the same place, brewer, is entitled to compensation in respect of her leasehold interest in the said land: And whereas the Minister of Public Works has agreed to grant to the said Leah Davis a right of way over a portion of the said land as part satisfaction of the compensation so payable as aforesaid, and to transfer to her in fee-simple certain pieces of land in satisfaction of the residue of the said compensation: And whereas the said Leah Davis has agreed to accept such grant and transfer in full satisfaction of the said compensation: Now, therefore, I, Roderick McKenzie, the Minister of Public Works, do hereby give notice, in pursuance of the provisions of section 84 of “The Public Works, Act, 1908,” that I assent to the above agreement.

Dated at Wellington, this fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Additional Land in Blocks VIII and XII, Christchurch Survey District, for the Use, Convenience, and Enjoyment of the Te Oranga Home.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” to take additional land in Blocks VIII and XII, Christchurch Survey District, described in the Schedule hereto, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of a certain public work already executed, to wit, the Te Oranga Home, Christchurch. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Christchurch, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of the said land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 28th June, 1909.

LIABILITIES.

ASSETS.

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000.
Preference shares issued to the Crown under “Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903,” £500,000.
Ordinary shares, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, 8¾ per cent. per annum.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on ordinary shares (10 per cent. per annum, and bonus 2½ per cent. per annum), 12½ per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, £43,750.
Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares, £62,500.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £710,998.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1909.

W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
F. A. MACBEAN, Accountant.