Jan. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 19

Permit to import Opium.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 6th January, 1914.

IT is hereby notified for public information that a permit to import opium in forms which though not suitable for smoking may be made suitable has been granted to the undermentioned person, subject to the provisions of the Opium Act, 1908, the Opium Amendment Act, 1910, and the regulations made thereunder:—

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Anniversary Day, Wellington Province.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th January, 1914.

IT is hereby notified that the Government Offices in the Wellington Provincial District will be closed on Thursday, the 22nd January, 1914, being the Anniversary Day of the Province of Wellington.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Applications invited for the Position of Chief Clerk, Public Works Department.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 9th January, 1914.

1. APPLICATIONS, to be made on forms obtainable from any Resident or District Engineer or from this office, will be received up till noon on the 2nd February, 1914, from officers of the Public Service, for the position of Chief Clerk, Public Works Department.

2. Applications must be forwarded through the Head of the Department, addressed to the “Secretary to the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington,” and must embrace a statement of education and experience, particulars of age, &c.

3. The appointment will be subject to the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912.

4. Position is graded in Class II. Salary, £440; maximum, £475. Clerical Division.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Applications invited for the Position of Record Clerk, Public Works Department.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 10th January, 1914.

1. APPLICATIONS, to be made on forms obtainable from any Resident or District Engineer or from this office, will be received up till noon on the 9th February, 1914, from officers of the Public Service, for the position of Record Clerk, Public Works Department.

2. Applications must be forwarded through the Head of the Department, addressed to the “Secretary to the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington,” and must embrace a statement of education and experience, particulars of age, &c.

3. The appointment will be subject to the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912.

4. Position is graded in Class V. Maximum, £315. Clerical Division.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 6th January, 1914.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of four pounds (in notes) forwarded to him by some unknown person as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 6th January, 1914.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of 4s. 6d. in stamps forwarded to the Collector of Customs, Auckland, by some unknown person as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 10th January, 1914.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of 2s. forwarded to the Collector of Customs at Auckland by some unknown person as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), and its Amendments.

To the owner of the following land, that is to say: All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 16 perches, more or less, being Allotment 28 on deposited plan 48 showing that subdivision into lots of (inter alia) Town Section 388, Napier, and being all the land comprised in Certificate of Title, volume 8, folio 250. The last registered owner of the above land is William Young Watson, of Havelock North, Storekeeper, who cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby been able to find the owner of the above-described land, and believes that the said owner has no known agent in New Zealand:

Now, the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the said land; and if he fails or neglects so to do, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), and its amendments.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1914.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 14th January, 1914.

PURSUANT to section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations made thereunder, I, Frederick Augustus Thompson, Returning Officer for the election of a member to the Nelson Land Board, do hereby notify the result of the poll taken on the 5th day of January, 1914, for the election of a member to the Nelson Land Board, to be as follows:—

And I hereby declare the above-mentioned ROBERT PATTERSON, having received the greatest number of valid votes, to be duly elected a member of the Nelson Land Board.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Returning Officer.