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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 105

Whangarei Fire Board,—
Appointed by the Governor—
Robert Thompson.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Frank Evans.
John Ernest Morten.
Norman Theodore Williams.
Elected by the Whangarei Borough Council—
John Samuel Dent.
Frank Cutforth.
James Edmund Holmes.

Woolston Fire Board,—
Appointed by the Governor—
John James Graham.
Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Henry Percy Hopkins.
James Charles Cooper.
John Frederick Grierson.
Elected by the Woolston Borough Council—
Thomas Maples Champ.
Duncan McRae.
George Stewart White.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Matamata Town District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th June, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT GEORGE YARDLEY, of Matamata,

to be Returning Officer for the purpose of conducting the first election of five members of the Board of Commissioners of the Matamata Town District as constituted under the Town Boards Act, 1908; also to appoint Wednesday, the 18th day of July, 1917, to be the date, and the Public Hall at Matamata to be the place, at which the said first election shall be held; also to appoint Wednesday, the 25th day of July, 1917, to be the time, and the said Public Hall at Matamata to be the place, at which the first meeting of the Board of Commissioners so elected shall be held.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-law of the Waimate County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1917.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-law made by the Waimate County Council on the 25th day of April, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 16th day of May, 1917.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of June, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dates of Elections of Members of the Waihi Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th June, 1917.

PURSUANT to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, and the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 12th day of July, 1917, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the Waihi Fire Board by the contributing local authority; and I do further appoint Friday, the 20th day of July, 1917, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the said Waihi Fire Board by the insurance companies which for the time being are carrying on business within the said Waihi Fire District.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1917.

IN 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:—

ALBERT JOSEPH MÜLLER, Postmaster, Reefton.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
For Minister of Telegraphs.

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 situated in the Provincial District of Otago, containing 3 roods 1 perch, more or less, being Allotments 1, 2, and 71 on the plan of the Township of Sherwood deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Dunedin as No. 197, and being part of country Section 55, Block VII, Waipohie District, and being the whole of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 57, folio 96, Otago Registry.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has been unable to find the owner of the above-described land, or any agent of such owner 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 hereby gives notice that if such owner 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 25th day of June, 1917.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Te Makarini Scholarships tenable at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition in the year 1917. One of these scholarships, to be called the Senior Makarini Scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. The other two scholarships, to be called the Junior Makarini Scholarships, are open to Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. One of the junior scholarships is reserved for competition amongst candidates from Native village schools only, the other is open to Maori boys attending any school in the Dominion. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions set forth in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Regulations relating to Native Schools, except that for the Junior Scholarship the age limit is now fourteen years, and that for the senior examination the work required is that of Standard VI instead of Standard V. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 3rd and 4th of December, 1917.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 30th of September, 1917.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Director of Education, Wellington.

JOHN PORTEOUS,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th June, 1917.