May 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1571

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 19.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 2nd May, 1913.

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 :—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend James Tymons.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Edward Gardiner.

Baptists.
The Reverend Robert Henry Farland.
The Reverend Arthur Todd Brainsby.
F. W. Mansfield.
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

Notice.—Charles Mathews Drew, Esq., of 2 Hunter Street, Sydney, New South Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of May, 1913.

Eustace Stocker.
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1913.

The Loyal Remuera Lodge, No. 8785, situated at Remuera, Auckland, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the New Zealand branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 2nd day of May, 1913.

A. T. Traversi.
Deputy Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Half-yearly Statement of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of Australasia in New Zealand.

Half-yearly return of the aggregate average amount of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Australasia within the Dominion of New Zealand from the 14th day of October, 1912, to the 14th day of April, 1913, inclusive. (Published pursuant to the Royal Charter of Incorporation.)

£ s. d.
Bills in circulation not bearing interest .. 20,893 12 8
Notes in circulation not bearing interest .. 145,665 19 3
Bills and notes in circulation bearing interest ..
Balances due to other banks ..
Cash deposited not bearing interest .. 1,452,887 0 3
Cash deposited bearing interest .. 638,778 17 11

Total liabilities within the Dominion £2,258,225 10 1

£ s. d.
Coin and bullion .. 620,119 7 4
Landed property (bank premises) .. 16,244 1 8
Notes and bills of other banks .. 28,124 13 10
Balances due from other banks ..
Debts due to the corporation, including notes, bills, and other securities .. 3,279,025 5 10

Total assets within the Dominion £3,943,513 8 8

A. P. Webster, Inspector.
R. Swanston, Accountant.
Wellington, 21st April, 1913.

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

Notice is hereby given that John Charles Snelling, formerly of 6 Crusoe Road, Mitcham, in the County of Surrey, England, now of 10 Crieff Road, Wandsworth, Surrey aforesaid, has made application for restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improved machine for producing slabs for building purposes,” numbered 26249, and bearing date the 22nd July, 1908, which expired on the 22nd July, 1912, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 17th June, 1913, 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.

Population of the Dominion.

Return of the Estimated Population of the Dominion of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1913.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1913.

F. H. Machattie,
Acting Government Statistician.