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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

Population of the Dominion.

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Dominion of New Zealand on the 30th September, 1912.

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

M. FRASER,
Government Statistician.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that James Hurl and Co. (Limited), a company duly incorporated and carrying on business at No. 20 Loftus Street, Sydney, New South Wales, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to Arthur Iorwerth Joseph, of Hoffnung’s Chambers, 163 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Sanitary Engineer, and assigned to the said company, for an invention for “Improvements in septic treatment of sewage,” numbered 22533, and bearing date the 13th March, 1907, which expired on the 13th March, 1911, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 19th November, 1912, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that Thomas Boswell Sutton, lately of Rongotea, Wellington, New Zealand, but now of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Builder and Contractor, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improved butter-box,” numbered 22257, and bearing date the 29th December, 1906, which expired on the 29th December, 1910, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 3rd December, 1912, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that Charles Henry Edmund Hope-Johnstone, formerly of Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand, Factory-manager, but now residing at Tuhi-karama, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improvement in preparing milk for food,” numbered 23412, and bearing date the 1st September, 1907, which expired on the 1st September, 1911, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 17th December, 1912, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 40.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

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

The Reverend ALFRED JAMES STUART SEATON.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Flax-cutting Rights, Hauraki Plains, for Sale by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 13th November, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the Land Drainage Engineer’s Office, Thames, until noon on Wednesday, 27th November, 1912, for the right to cut green flax on areas at Waikaka, Hauraki Plains. Plans, specifications, and conditions can be seen at the Land Drainage Engineer’s Office, Thames, and at the post-office, Patetonga (Waikaka).

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,