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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 102

Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (2) of section 9 of the said Act, do hereby authorize the following Post officers to take declarations of Postmasters and other Post officers :—

Lewis Anderson.
William Henry Anderson.
George Walter Brown.
Samuel Bucket.
Robert Alexander Callander.
John Young Cameron.
Percival Samuel Henry Chambers.
John Peter Porteous Clouston.
Henry George Frederick Coles.
James Scott Connell.
Ralph Cox.
George Edward Harrison Davis.
Harold George Davis.
Alexander Dawson.
Edward Dollimore.
Samuel Pearce Eddy.
Joseph Hardy Fletcher.
George William Hazleton.
Luther Hill.

William James Jackson.
James Stuart Jordan.
James Valentine Lawes.
David McCready.
Niel Roy McIsaac.
Cecil Argrove Mathieson.
Robert Gordon May.
Frederick William Moore.
John George Mulholland.
Dennis Mulvey.
James Joseph Mulvey.
Edward Nicholas Pascoe.
Robert Joseph Patton.
David Pollock Porteous.
Edward John Roche.
William Arthur Sawyer.
Albert Nyanza Wallace.
William Edward Ward.
Allan Stanley Warner.
Thomas Henry Whelan.
Frank Wilton.
John George Young.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Entering into Possession of Mines, Machinery, &c., by His Majesty.

In the matter of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments ; and in the matter of deed of mortgage bearing date the 21st day of December, 1914, between the Waihi Reefs Gigantic Consolidation (Limited) of the one part, and His Majesty the King of the other part, and registered in the office of the Mining Registrar at Waihi as No. 9418.

NOTICE is hereby given that, default having been made in the payment of the principal and interest moneys and the performance and observance of the covenants and conditions which by the above-mentioned deed of mortgage the above-named the Waihi Reefs Gigantic Consolidation (Limited) covenanted to pay, perform, and/or observe, it is the intention of His Majesty the King, acting through the Minister of Mines of the Dominion, to enforce compliance with the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments, by entering into possession of the mines, machinery, working-plant, and appliances of the said company and selling the same.

Dated this 23rd day of November, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.
(Mines 1919/777.)

Despatch.—Nobel Peace Prize, 1922.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th November, 1921.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—Dominions No. 423.)
Downing Street, 13th October, 1921.

My Lord,—With reference to my predecessor’s despatch, Dominions No. 763, of the 29th September, 1919, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of a notice issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1922.

2. I should be glad if your Ministers would cause the conditions of the prize to be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) WINSTONE CHURCHILL.

Governor-General His Excellency the Right Honourable Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.B., &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed December 10th, 1922, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the 1st of February, 1922.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified: (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of the Institute of International Law; (f) university professors of political science and of law, of history, and of philosophy; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, par. 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.

According to par. 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.

[Note.—See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57, of 1901, for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Letters of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 5th December, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that letters of naturalization or endorsements of letters of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the Aliens Act, 1908, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Internal Affairs.