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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 90

Census, 1911.

THE accompanying table, showing the result of the Census taken in April, 1911, as regards poultry and bee-keeping, is
published for general information.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 15th November, 1911.

M. FRASER,
Government Statistician.

TABLE showing the NUMBER of POULTRY of Various Kinds in New Zealand, also the NUMBER of BEE-KEEPERS and HIVES,
with the QUANTITY of HONEY and Wax produced during the Year, as ascertained at the Census of 2nd April, 1911.

*3,772 guinea-fowls, 915 pheasants, 29 ostriches, 3 emus, and 835 not specified.

NOTE.—Taking 5d. per lb. for the honey and 1s. 3d. per lb. for the wax, the value of the output for the year would amount to £32,113 12s. 11d.—viz., £30,359 16s. 8d. for honey, and £1,753 16s. 3d. for wax.

Officiating Ministers for 1911.—Notice No. 37.

Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1911.

P URSUANT 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 intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognized office-bearers thereof.

A minister of religion not connected with any of the aforementioned bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—

(a.) By the recognized head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he belongs; or
(b.) By two duly recognized ministers of such religious body; or
(c.) By ten adult members thereof, who append their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such minister is their Officiating Minister, the said signatures and descriptions being attested by some person who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be, by a statutory declaration signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

Baptists.
The Reverend WILLIAM BARNETT.

[Erratum.—In Notice No. 16, Officiating Ministers for 1911, on page 1364 of Gazette of 20th April, 1911, Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand, for “Mr. A. Parsons” read “Mr. J. E. Parsons.”]

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1911.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Dominion of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Third Schedule annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of their Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1908, of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to :

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
All Congregational Independents.

Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1911.

THE Grey Valley Coal-miners' Medical Fund Society, situated at Brunnerton, is registered as a friendly society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 8th day of November, 1911.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.