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5. That the composition of the phosphate averages not less than 50 per cent. of phosphate of lime (tricalcic phosphate); provided, however, that should a phosphate of a lower average composition be discovered, the committee may recommend that a portion of the bonus be granted.

6. That the bonus shall only be paid to the first claimant who satisfies the above conditions.

The terms of payment shall be—

One-fifth on the committee reporting favourably of the discovery;

One-fifth on delivery of the first 200 tons to purchasers;

The remaining three-fifths by equal payments on delivery of each additional 150 tons to purchasers.

Applications, addressed to “The Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,” will be received up to and including the 31st day of March, 1916.

Specimens of the rock may be seen at the office of any of this Department’s Fields Inspectors, and a leaflet descriptive of the phosphate, and showing how it may be roughly tested, may be obtained on application to these officers. A limited number of specimens of New Zealand phosphate rock are available for distribution to farmers, prospectors, and others interested, and will be sent free on application to the Chemist, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Wellington.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Waipu North Road Board.—Notice No. 1784.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th June, 1915.

I T is hereby notified for public information that the Waipu North Road Board has, by special order, declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction :—

Burdock. Periwinkle.
Fennel. St. John’s Wort.
Foxglove. Thistles: Any species of Carlina (stemless thistle), Carduus (common plume or Scotch thistle), Cnicus (woolly-headed thistle), Centaurea (star thistle), Silybum (milk thistle).
Hemlock. Viper’s bugloss.
Kangaroo acacia. African boxthorn.
Lupin. Pennycress.
Ox-eye daisy.
Winged thistle.
Tutsan.
Wild borage.
Wild turnip.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Matai Road, Wha Street, and Rimu Street Extension, in the Town of Frankton Extension No. 38, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th June, 1915.

I N pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 15 of the Land Act, 1908, I hereby authorize the laying-off of Matai Road, Wha Street, and Rimu Street Extension, in the Town of Frankton Extension No. 38, Auckland Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. instead of 99 ft.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Page Street, in the Town of Greenmeadows Extension No. 6, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th June, 1915.

I N pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 15 of the Land Act, 1908, I hereby authorize the laying-off of Page Street, in the Town of Greenmeadows Extension No. 6, Hawke’s Bay Land District, of a width of not less than 63 ft. instead of 99 ft.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th June, 1915.

T HE following notice, received from the Featherston County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

FEATHERSTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the Turanganui Riding of the county was taken on the 2nd day of June, 1915, on the proposal to raise a loan of £2,500 for the construction of bridges over the Turanganui and Waihora Streams.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 35. The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 0.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Martinborough this 7th day of June, 1915.

ALEX. D. McLEOD,
Chairman.

Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th June, 1915.

I N pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed a Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

JOHNSTON, SAMUEL JAMES, Postmaster, Queenstown.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Officiating Ministers for 1915.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1915.

P URSUANT to the provisions of 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.
The Reverend FRANK WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

Congregational Independents.
PASTOR JETHRO LOCK.

Church of Christ.
MR. CHARLES DOWNEY.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Bay of Islands Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1915.

T HE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 25th day of May, 1915, for the election of a Member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Bay of Islands, and by the endorsement on such writ it appears that the name of WILLIAM STEWART has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

J. HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.