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Mechanics' Institutes Act, 1908, or the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,

pounds shillings and pence; from the subscriptions of members,
pounds shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions other than members' subscriptions,
pounds shillings and pence; that the library is public in the sense of belonging
to the public, and is not under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed
of a section of the community only; that the information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix
hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of accounts is a true statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year herein specified;
that the whole of the subsidy received during the year was expended in the purchase of books for the library;
[and that by the rules of the library it is open to the public free of charge].

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908.

Declared at , this day of , 191 ,
before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor,
or Notary Public].

[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to last year's subsidy and to free admission may be struck out if they are not applicable. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

6. Copies of the form of application may be obtained from the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the Secretary of any Education Board.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Education.

Further Extension of Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with the Government of Honduras.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th November, 1913.

WITH reference to Notice published by this Department in the New Zealand Gazette No. 56, of the 27th June, 1912, notice is hereby given that a further despatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United Kingdom and Honduras has been further extended until the 6th April, 1915.

F. M. B. FISHER.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VII, Takahue Survey District, for Road Purposes.

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 construction of a road in Block VII, Takahue 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 post-office at Fairburn's, 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.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is 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 18th day of November, 1913.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1913.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Dominion of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Third Schedule annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intitled the Marriage Act, 1908, and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of their Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1908, of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to:
The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognized office-bearers thereof.

A minister of religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—
(a.) By the recognized head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he belongs; or
(b.) By two duly recognized ministers of such religious body; or
(c.) By ten adult members thereof, who append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such minister is their Officiating Minister, the said signatures and descriptions being attested by some person who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be, by a statutory declaration signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 40.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 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:

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

The Reverend E. D. RICE.

A. W. C. STACE.

J. W. ROBINSON.

PATIHANA KOKIRI.

EREA TARA ERUINI.

GEORGE E. KEAR.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Government Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Awakino.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 18th November, 1913.

AN agency of the above Department (Life and Accident Branches) will be opened at THE POST-OFFICE, AWAKINO, as from the 1st December, 1913.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.