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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 8

ESTIMATED Cost of CONSTRUCTION of RAILWAYS, ROLLING-STOCK, ETC., to 31st March, 1921, as furnished by Public Works Department and by Greymouth and Westport Harbour Boards respectively.

Railways Department, 6th February, 1922.

H. WILLIAMS,

Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.

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

Department of Labour, Wellington, 30th January, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant of an application in that behalf made to me by Tattersfield (Limited) Industrial Union of Employers, registered No. 1091, situated at Auckland, 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.

F. W. ROWLEY,

Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department, Wellington, 25th January, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that unclaimed property in the hands of the police at the various police-stations will, if not claimed before Tuesday, the 28th February, 1922, be sold thereafter by public auction.

Particulars as to the time and place of sale may be obtained from the Superintendent or Inspector of Police in charge of the district.

A. H. WRIGHT, Commissioner of Police.

Officiating Ministers for 1922.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 7th February, 1922.

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:

Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Jonathan Ernest Draper.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. John Richards.

Baptists.

The Reverend Thomas Weston.

ERRATA.—In Notice No. 1, published in the New Zealand Gazette of 26th January, 1922, page 191, under "Roman Catholic Church," for "the Reverend Speiring, John," read "the Reverend Spierings, John"; page 192, under "Methodist Church of New Zealand," for "Mr. Teuawiri, Hoani Hakaraia," read "the Reverend Te Uawiri, Hoani Hakaraia," and for "the Reverend Kakuera, Hori," read "the Reverend Kakuere, Hori."

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Ashburton.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 8th February, 1922.

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that a petition in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the Borough of Ashburton, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said borough and included in Wakanui Road District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, being part of Rural Section 13757, bounded on the north-east by Jones Street, towards the south-west by Wakanui Road, and towards the north-west by Trevors Road.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaration of Result of Poll for the Southern Maori Electoral District.

SAMUEL ERNEST McCARTHY, Returning Officer for the Southern Maori Electoral District, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 25th day of January, 1922, for the election of a member of Parliament for the said district to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.

Henare Whakatau Uru ... 364
Teone Matapura Erihana ... 250
Wereta Tainui Pitama ... 108
William Daniel Barrett ... 90

Total number of votes polled ... 812

I therefore declare the said HENARE WHAKATAU URU to be elected.

Dated at Christchurch this 6th day of February, 1922.

S. E. McCARTHY, Returning Officer.