SEPT. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2489

or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

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SCHEDULE.

W. JANSEN, Box 1098, G.P.O., Melbourne, Victoria.

Dated this 19th day of September, 1923.

F. H. D. BELL, for Postmaster-General.

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Notice making and levying Rates under the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910.

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I, RICHARD FRANCIS BOLLARD, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Lands, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, do hereby make and levy upon the unimproved value of all lands liable to be rated in pursuance of that Act a rate on a graduated scale as specified in the Schedule hereto according to the classification of the land.

The said rates will be payable in one sum on the 15th day of October, 1923, to the Collector of Rates for the Rangitaiki Land Drainage District, at the Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, at which office the rate-book will be open for inspection.

A copy of the rate-book may be inspected by ratepayers at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which that office is open for transaction of public business.

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SCHEDULE.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, tenpence and sixteen one-hundredths of a penny (10d. and 16/100d.) in the pound.

Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class B by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, fivepence and eighty-one one-hundredths of a penny (5d. and 81/100d.) in the pound.

Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class C by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, one penny and forty-five one-hundredths of a penny (1d. and 45/100d.) in the pound.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

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Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Waitaki Electric-power Board.

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I N pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, G.C.M.G., K.C., a Member of the Executive Council, for and on behalf of the Hon. the Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the 25th day of September, 1923, at 11 o’clock a.m., as the time, and the Borough Council Chambers, Town Hall, Oamaru, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Waitaki Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of September, 1923.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Public Works.

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Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Malvern Electric-power Board.

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I N pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, G.C.M.G., K.C., a Member of the Executive Council, for and on behalf of the Hon. the Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Thursday, the fourth day of October, 1923, at 2 o’clock p.m., as the time, and the offices of the Malvern County Council at Darfield, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Malvern Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of September, 1923.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Public Works.

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Conscience-money received.

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The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th September, 1923.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government :—

10s. forwarded to the Collector of Customs at Auckland.
$5·00 forwarded to the American Consul, Wellington.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

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Branch of Friendly Society registered.

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Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 15th September, 1923.

THE Lily of Temuka Lodge, No. 25, situated at Temuka, is registered as a branch of the Grand Lodge of Canterbury, New Zealand, of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 14th day of September, 1923.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

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I, WILLIAM GREER FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that The Lower Waikato Returned Soldiers’ Association (Incorporated), is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland this 11th day of September, 1923.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

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Officiating Ministers for 1923.—Notice No. 35.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 1923.

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 :—

Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. James William Cocks.

The Reverend Colin Graham Scrimgeour.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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Imposition of Depreciated-currency Duty.

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Customs Department,
Wellington, 17th September, 1923.

I T is hereby notified, for public information, that the Minister of Customs has been requested to determine whether or not depreciated-currency duty should be imposed on the following class or kind of goods, when imported from countries having depreciated currencies (other than Germany, Austria, and Hungary)—viz., glass, crown, sheet, common window, plate, polished, coloured, bent, and other kinds, cut to any size or shape, n.e.i.—which are at present subject to depreciated-currency duty.

Before deciding the matter, the Minister hereby invites any person who considers that the importation of such goods without such duty being charged thereon would prejudicially or injuriously affect his industry or business, or who would be aggrieved if such duty were not charged on such goods, to make a complaint in the prescribed form.

The Minister also invites any person who considers that the imposition of depreciated-currency duty on such goods does prejudicially or injuriously affect his industry or business or who is aggrieved by the imposition of such duty to state in the prescribed form any reasons he may desire to offer why such duty should not be imposed.

Such complaint or statement will be regarded as strictly confidential. It must reach this office not later than one month from the date of the publication of this notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

Any complaint or statement already received in connection with the class or kind of goods referred to above will receive full consideration before the matter is decided.

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.