JUNE 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1889

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks X and XI, Christchurch Survey District, for the Development of the Lake Coleridge Water-power Scheme.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the development of the Lake Coleridge Water-power Scheme in Blocks X and XI, Christchurch Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Public Works Office, at Christchurch, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

• Part Lots 2 and 3, D.P. 3343.

All in the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of June, 1913.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Election of Member of Wellington Land Board.—Result of Poll.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1913.

PURSUANT to section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations made thereunder, I, Thomas Noel Brodrick, Returning Officer for the election of a member to the Wellington Land Board, do hereby notify the result of the poll taken on the 4th day of June, 1913, for the election of a member to the Wellington Land Board, to be as follows:—

Candidate. Votes polled.
Ellingham, Henry Thomas .. .. 827
Haycock, Thomas Owen .. .. 226

Number of valid votes .. .. 1,053
Number of votes rejected as informal .. 35

And I hereby declare the above-mentioned HENRY THOMAS ELLINGHAM, having received the greater number of valid votes, to be duly elected a member of the Wellington Land Board.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Returning Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 5th June, 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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. BENJAMIN PENNAR EVANS.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend JOSEPH BURTON SUCKLING.
Mr. JAMES WEIR.

F. W. MANSFIELD.
Registrar-General.

Supply of Night-duty Coats for Police Force.

Police Department,
Wellington, 6th June, 1913.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the tender of Messrs. Ross and Glendining (Limited), of Wellington, for the supply of night-duty coats for the Police Force, at £2 12s. per coat, has been accepted for a period of three years from the 27th May, 1913.

J. CULLEN,
Commissioner of Police.

Unclaimed Property.

Police Department,
Wellington, 31st May, 1913.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in the possession of the police at the stations named, will, unless claimed by the 21st June, 1913, be sold thereafter by public auction:—

Auckland.—Umbrellas, purses, articles of jewellery and clothing, &c.
Hamilton.—Umbrella, cape, brooch.
Napier.—Bicycles, purses, watch, articles of jewellery, clothing, &c.
Wanganui.—Bicycles, umbrellas, purses, articles of clothing, &c.
Wellington.—Bicycles, umbrellas, watches, purses, articles of jewellery and clothing, &c.
Greymouth.—Articles of clothing, tools, &c.
Christchurch.—Bicycles, watches, purses, articles of jewellery and clothing, &c.
Ashburton.—Bicycle, umbrellas, articles of clothing.
Timaru.—Bicycles, umbrellas, purses, articles of clothing.
Dunedin.—Bicycles, umbrellas, purses, articles of jewellery, clothing, &c.
Invercargill.—Bicycles, purses, articles of clothing, &c.

J. CULLEN,
Commissioner of Police.

(P. 13/999.)

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.