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important animal or group of animals, with indications of
the means of prevention and cure.
(iv.) Researches in New Zealand Economic Botany.—
(a.) Properties of New Zealand timbers (strength, dur-
ability, &c.), and mode of treating timbers. (b.) Histolo-
gical and other characteristics that serve to differentiate
economic timbers used in New Zealand. (c.) Products of
New Zealand plants, whether fibre, bark, oils, drugs,
dyes, resins, sawdust, or other products; wood pulp, and
the paper-making industry. (d.) Definite experiments as
to plants suitable as fodder plants for the different quali-
ties of lands in New Zealand.
(v.) The Flax Industry.
(vi.) Butter, Milk, and Cheese Industry.—(a.) Definite
investigation in one or more branches of dairy bacteriology.
(b.) Improvement in analytical methods in dairy-work.
(c.) Utilization of dairy waste products.
(vii.) Food Fishes of New Zealand.—Definite investiga-
tion into the life-history of some given fish or group of
fishes used as food in New Zealand.
(viii.) Chemistry of Soils.—Some definite branch of the
subject—e.g.; the best method of fertilizing light pumice
lands.
(ix.) New Zealand Mineral Oils.—Systematic examina-
tion of.
(x.) Fat Industry.
(xi.) Fossil Resins (including kauri-gum and ambrite).
(xii.) Minerals.—(a.) Improvement in rapid method of
analysis of minerals. (b.) Chemistry and mechanical
characters of New Zealand brown coals. (c.) Chemistry
and mechanical characters of New Zealand clays. (d.)
Chemistry of New Zealand iron-deposits, especially of
titanic sands and hæmatites.
(xiii.) Any other subject approved by the Minister.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this
purpose vested by the Customs Law Act, 1908, I, the
Minister of Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the
undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the recep-
tion of goods under bond, namely:—

Port of New Plymouth.

A building of wood and iron, situate at West Quay, Wai-
tara, to be known as

HATRICK’S BONDED WAREHOUSE.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this ninth day
of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 933.]

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this
purpose vested, I, the Minister of Customs, do by
this order under my hand revoke and annul the appoint-
ment of the undermentioned warehouse for the reception
and security of goods entered to be warehoused without pay-
ment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely:—

Port of Dunedin.

The warehouse known as

P. HAYMAN AND CO.’S BOND,

as appointed and described in Minister’s Order No. 86, of
the 22nd day of October, 1875.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this fifth day of
August, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 934.]

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 6th August, 1910.

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

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

ERECTIO N OF POST-OFFICE AT RAKAIA.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Calvert, C., Christchurch .. .. .. 1,627 5 0

Declined.
White, G., Christchurch .. .. .. 1,839 0 0
Paynter and Hamilton, Christchurch .. 1,995 15 0
Nightingale Bros., Christchurch .. .. 2,004 5 0

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th August, 1910.

THE following result of the election of a trustee of the
Hungahunga Drainage District has been received
from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance
with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Hungahunga Drainage District, County of Piako :
Elijah Brokenshire.

Tenders for Parcel-post Hampers, &c.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1910.

TENDERS will be received, until 5 p.m. on Monday, the
12th September, for the supply of such parcel-post
hampers and baskets as may be required for the Post and
Telegraph Department for a period of three years from the
1st November, 1910, to the 31st October, 1913.

Specifications and samples may be seen at the Chief Post-
offices, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and at the
office of the Controller of Stores, Wellington.

Tenders to be addressed to the Controller of Stores, Post
and Telegraph Department, General Post Office, Wellington,
marked “Tender for Parcel-post Hampers, &c.,” and ac-
companied by a cheque for £50, marked by a banker “Good
for thirty days,” payable to the Secretary of the Public
Works Tenders Board, Wellington.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

By order.

D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1910.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th August, 1910.

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

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.

The Reverend Charles John Merton.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.

The Reverend C. H. Olds.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Archer O. Harris.

[Erratum.—In Notice No. 16, on page 1463 of New Zealand
Gazette of 12th May, 1910, under heading “Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints,” for “Elder Oliver Humphries”
read “Elder Oliver Humpherys.”]

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1910.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th August, 1910.

AT the request of the Ecclesiastical Head of the Metho-
dist Church of Australasia in New Zealand the under-
mentioned name has been removed from the list of Officiating
Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, for the year 1910:—

The Reverend Charles Porter.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.