3464

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 90

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
ALFRED ORR MARTIN .. .. .. Brunner.
ALBERT LESLIE SMITH .. .. .. Malvern.
JAMES WYLLIE McLEAN.. .. .. Whakatane.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

Officiating Ministers for 1912.—Notice No. 42.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 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:—

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend S. J. MOGRIDGE.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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 6th day of December, 1912.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 40 acres, more or less, being the southern portion of Allotment 9, in the Parish of Parahaki, in the County of Marsden. Bounded towards the north-east by Allotments 15 and 16, 960 links; towards the south-east by Allotment 8, 4416 links; towards the south-west by a road, 800 links; and towards the north-west by other portion of Allotment 9, 4900 links.

The Census and Statistics Act, 1910.—Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics.

Office of the Registrar-General, Wellington, 10th December, 1912.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, the Department of Agriculture collected through the post returns of the areas under grain (for threshing only) and root crops in the various districts for the current season (1912–13), and the following table gives the result of the compilation made therefrom. The figures may be taken as a fairly accurate estimate of the areas under the respective crops.

M. FRASER,
Government Statistician.

GRAIN, ROOT, AND OTHER CROPS SOWN OR INTENDED TO BE SOWN THIS SEASON, 1912–13.

SUMMARY OF PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS.—RETURNS COLLECTED OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, 1912.