APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1601

Ligertwood, Patrick Beaton, late of Waitomo Caves, in the Provincial District of Auckland, schoolmaster. Filed 31st March, 1914.

Bickerton, Mary Martha, late of Oxford, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed 31st March, 1914.

Corlett, Thomas James Moore, late of Epsom, in the Provincial District of Auckland, master mariner. Filed 31st March, 1914.

Smith, Thomas, late of Tolago Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed 31st March, 1914.

Revell, Frank, late of Petone, in the Provincial District of Wellington, fitter. Filed 2nd April, 1914.

Minchinton, George, late of Helensville, in the Provincial District of Auckland, ship’s cook. Filed 3rd April, 1914.

Ayre, Kathleen, or Catherine and Kate, late of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed 6th April, 1914.

Gregory, Elizabeth, or Elizabeth Clark, or Clarke Gregory, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, married woman. Filed 7th April, 1914.

Hunter, Charlotte Minnie, late of Richmond, in the Provincial District of Nelson, married woman. Filed 7th April, 1914.

Darge, Alexander, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed 7th April, 1914.

Goulding, Mary Ann, late of Georgetown, in the Provincial District of Otago, spinster. Filed 7th April, 1914.

Taylor, Robert, late of Te Araroa, in the Provincial District of Auckland, storekeeper. Filed 9th April, 1914.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to Section 18, Subsection (3), of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1913.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out probate, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the estates of the following deceased testate persons whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as are known), are respectively set out hereunder, and whose properties are estimated not to exceed the sum of £400 in each case:—

William Pryor, late of Ross, storekeeper.
Jensen Lars, late of Ekatahuna, settler.
Owen Trainor, late of Arrowtown, gold-miner.
Anne Gunn, late of Auckland, widow.
Samuel James Best, late of Auckland, commercial traveller.
Kate Taylor, late of New Plymouth, spinster.
Emma Ann Collyer, late of Wellington, widow.
John McGee, late of Dunedin, coal-miner.
Eliza Martindale, late of Havelock North, spinster.
Thomas Baird, late of Rotorua, settler.
Helen Vitiski, late of Hokitika, married woman.
Kate Cameron Thomson, late of Hawera, milliner.
George Bailey, late of Invercargill, chemist.
Alfred Inglis Dewar, late of Nelson, bank clerk.
Duncan Ross, late of Mandville, shepherd.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1914.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1914.

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. JOHN PATE.

Roman Catholic Church
Reverend DENIS GROGAN.
Reverend NICHOLAS MOORE.

New Brighton Gospel Mission.
MR. WILLIAM HAMMETT.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Applications invited for the Position of Assistant Instructor, School of Mines, Thames.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 29th April, 1914.

1. APPLICATIONS will be received up till noon on the 21st May, 1914, for the position of Assistant Instructor, School of Mines, Thames.

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

3. Preference will be given to a University graduate with some technical training.

4. Applicants must not be more than forty years of age.

5. Applicants will be required to—
   (a.) Lecture on the subjects of Assaying, Chemistry, and Geology;
   (b.) Supervise the laboratories in these subjects;
   (c.) Perform assays and analyses of any mineral samples which may be forwarded by the public.

6. The position will be graded in the Professional Division. Minimum, £210; maximum, £260.

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

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th April, 1914.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of post-office order for ten shillings issued in Sydney and forwarded as conscience-money to the Collector of Customs Auckland, by a lady who when passing through New Zealand inadvertently omitted to declare that she had dutiable goods.

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

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

NOTICE is hereby given that Alfred Launcelot James Tait, of Crawford Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “A method or process of and improved apparatus for treating and dressing flax and other fibres,” numbered 18601, and bearing date the 17th October, 1904, which expired on the 17th October, 1908, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 9th June, 1914, 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.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Nelson Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th April, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-mentioned land having been forfeited by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.