JUNE 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1931

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1914, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1915.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES COLVIN,
Minister of Mines.

Forbidding Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Eroscope Institute, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the institution the name and addresses of which are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in a fraudulent business, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said institution shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said institution (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to the manager, secretary, or other officer thereof, or addressed to either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

EAROSCOPE INSTITUTE, 90 Pitt Street, and Post-office Box 114, Sydney.

Dated this 11th day of June, 1912.

H. G. ELL,
Postmaster-General.

Result of Election of Trustee of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st May, 1912.

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

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Raupo Drainage District, County of Otamatea :
George Leonard Bradley.

Tenders for the Supply and Delivery of Typewriters.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1912.

TENDERS, to be addressed to “Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington,” will be received up to 5 p.m. on Friday, the 5th July, 1912, for the supply and delivery of fifty or more typewriters for the Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, during a period of two (2) years.

The specifications and conditions of tendering may be seen at the Chief Post-offices at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and at the office of the Controller of Stores, Waterloo Quay, Wellington.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

Election of Member of Southland Land Board.—Result of Poll.

I, GORDON HURRELL MORLAND McCLURE, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Southland Land Board, do hereby notify the result of the poll taken on the 4th day of June, 1912, in terms of the regulations under the Land Act, 1908, to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.
King, James 366
Tapper, Robert, jun. 190

Total number of valid votes polled... 556
Total number of votes rejected as informal... 24

And I do hereby declare that JAMES KING, having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Southland Land Board.

Dated at Invercargill, this 4th day of June, 1912.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Returning Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th June, 1912.

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 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.
The Reverend WILLIAM DAY.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
Mr. A. HISLOP.

Catholic Apostolic Church.
Mr. WILLIAM BEATTIE.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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

IT is hereby notified for general information that

Mr. JAMES MURRAY

has been appointed Agent for the Public Trustee at Waihi, as from 1st April, 1912, vice Mr. Richard Gooch, resigned.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 1912.

THE Otago Daily Times Mutual Provident Society, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a Friendly Society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 4th day of June, 1912.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1912.

THE Loyal Vincent Lodge, situated at Ophir, is registered as a branch of the Otago District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 8th day of June, 1912.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.