JULY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2263

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £7,500 for Hillsborough Riding proposed to be raised by the Heathcote County Council.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Heathcote County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of seven thousand five hundred pounds under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, for the purpose of carrying out certain road-works in the Hillsborough Riding of the county:

And whereas in the proceedings taken with respect to the raising of the said loan it was clearly stated that the loan was to be raised and the special rate made and levied in respect of the whole of the Hillsborough Riding, but a misdescription was given of the boundaries of the said riding:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section seven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said proceedings as if there had been no misdescription in the boundaries of the special-rating area, and doth hereby order and declare that the said rating area shall be and be deemed to be the whole of the Hillsborough Riding of the said county for all intents and purposes of the loan, and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

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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.

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Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th July, 1912.

THE following result of the election of a Trustee of the Tauhei 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.

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Tauhei Drainage District, Counties of Waikato and Piako:
John Farrant.

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Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

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To the owner of the following land, that is to say: All that parcel of land in the Town of Westport, containing by admeasurement 8 perches, more or less, being part of Section No. 472. Bounded towards the north by other part of Section No. 472, 136 links; and towards the north-east by other part of Section No. 472, 37 links; and towards the south-east by Mill Street, 136 links; and towards the south-west by Palmerston Street, 37 links; and being the whole of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 5, folio 98. The last registered owner of the land is SAMUEL ARON JOSEPH, of Sydney, New South Wales, Merchant, who cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner of the above-described land is, and believes that such owner is not in the Dominion:

Now, the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the said land; and if he fails or neglects so to do, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

Dated this 13th day of July, 1912.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

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The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

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Department of Labour,
Wellington, 16th July, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Wellington Gas Stokers and Cokers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 353, situated at Wellington, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

JOHN LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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Land in Wellington Land District to be disposed of under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 12, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District, containing 14 acres 1 rood 12 perches, will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act on or after Friday, the 11th day of October, 1912.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 28th May, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 476, Taupiri Parish, will be offered for sale by public auction, under the provisions of the said Act, at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, the 30th day of August, 1912.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in the Otago Land District to be disposed of under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 4th June, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 38, Block II, Maruwenua Survey District, containing 17 acres 1 rood, will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act on or after Friday, the 6th day of September, 1912.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.