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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 160

ESTIMATED Cost of CONSTRUCTION of RAILWAYS, ROLLING-STOCK, ETC., to 31st March, 1917, as furnished by Public Works Department and by Greymouth and Westport Harbour Boards respectively.

Railway Department, 15th October, 1917.

J. MACDONALD,
Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.

Government Offices to be closed on Friday, 30th November (St. Andrew's Day).

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 12th October, 1917.

AS provided under Public Service Regulations, the Government Offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Friday, 30th November, 1917, in celebration of St. Andrew's Day.

D. ROBERTSON, Public Service Commissioner.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury, Wellington, 16th October, 1917.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge receipt of 3s. 2d., forwarded to the Railway Department by a person unknown 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 Auckland, containing by admeasurement 40 acres, more or less, being south-eastern middle portion of Allotment 12, Parish of Ruatangata, County of Marsden. Bounded on the north by a line, 610 links; on the south-east by other portion of Allotment 12, 7600 links; on the south-west by a road 100 links wide, 695 links; and on the north-west by other portion of Allotment No. 12 afore-said, 6960 links.

The land was originally Crown-granted to one James Dawson, of Auckland, Labourer, who cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has been unable to find the whereabouts of the owner of the above-described land or of 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 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 16th day of October, 1917.

R. TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour, Wellington, 16th October, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Brooklyn branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 698, situated at Wellington, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

W. NEWTON, Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 16th October, 1917.

PURSUANT 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 Mr. ARTHUR HERBERT COATES.

Baptists The Reverend ALBERT WHALLEY.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.