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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Approving and appointing Bonded Tobacco-manufactory.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by the Tobacco Act, 1908, I, Francis Marion Bates Fisher, Minister of Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned building or premises as a manufactory in which tobacco may be manufactured prior to the payment of duty thereon, namely,—

Port of Wellington.

Ground floor and second floor of a four-storied brick building, situated in Willeston Street, on Corporation section, Lot 9, Block II, to be known as

THE BRITISH EMPIRE TRADING COMPANY’S BONDED TOBACCO-FACTORY.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 2nd day of September, 1912.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1017.]

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.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury.
Wellington, 3rd September, 1912.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge receipt of the sum of 8s., forwarded to Deputy Commissioner of Stamps, Christchurch, by some person unknown, as “conscience-money, deceased estate,” to the New Zealand Government.

J. W. POYNTON,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 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.
Mr. ERNEST HARRY KEDGLEY.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend PERCY BLADEN.

Baptists.
The Reverend THOMAS HENRY ECCERSALL.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, 1912, beginning on or about the 18th day of the month; that a Junior National Scholarship and Junior Free Place Examination (commonly known as the December Examination) will be held on or about the 28th and 29th November, 1912; and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1913, beginning on or about the 6th day of the month.

With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the Intermediate Examination, being the Special Examination for a senior free place qualification in secondary schools and district high schools and for the First Examination of pupil-teachers.

With the Junior National Scholarship Examination will be taken the Junior Free Place Examination (including the examination for junior free places in technical schools).

Entries for Junior National Scholarships and Junior Free Places, and for the First Examination of pupil-teachers, must be made through the principals or head teachers of the schools attended, and will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards not later than the 16th September, 1912. Junior Scholarship and Junior Free Place entries received after that date can be accepted only with the consent of the Education Department, which, if satisfied in any special case that there has been reasonable ground for the delay, may allow not more than seven days of grace.

Late entries for the First Examination of pupil teachers can be accepted only under conditions applicable to the Intermediate Examination.

Entries for the Civil Service Junior and Intermediate Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 16th September, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 23rd September, 1912.

Entries for the January examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 15th October, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October, 1912.

For Scholarship and Free Place entries, and for entrance to the First Examination of pupil-teachers, no entrance fee (other than late fee) is payable.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may be obtained later from the office of any Education Board or of the Education Department.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II, Unclaimed Lands).

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908; the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of September, 1912.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood 38 perches, more or less, being Lots 515 and 516, Block XXXVIII, on Deposited Plan 42 of part of Subdivision A, Manchester Block, Town of Halcombe, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

The last registered owner of the land is the Colonists’ Land and Loan Corporation (Limited), which disclaims ownership, having, as is supposed, transferred its interest to some person whose name and whereabouts cannot now be ascertained.