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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 73

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th October, 1923.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand
4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th November,
1938, and the Register of New Zealand 5-per-cent. Inscribed
Stock, maturing 15th November, 1927, will be closed from
the 1st November to the 15th November, 1923, inclusive, for
the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Finance.

Retention of Title of “Honourable.”
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th October, 1923.
THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, is published for general information.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
(New Zealand.—Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 9th August, 1923.
MY LORD,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Excellency’s despatch No. 157 of the 18th June,
and to request you to inform your Prime Minister that His
Majesty the King has been pleased to approve the retention
of the title of “ Honorable” by Sir Frederic William Lang,
formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives of New
Zealand.
A notification to this effect will be published in the London
Gazette.

Governor-General His Excellency The Right Honourable
Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O.
Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough
of Taumarunui.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th October, 1923.
IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to
His Excellency the Governor-General, under section
one hundred and thirty-two of the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1920, praying that the area described in the Schedule
hereto, being now part of the Borough of Taumarunui, may
be excluded from the said borough and included in the County
of Taumarunui. All persons affected are hereby called upon
to lodge any written objection to or petitions against the
proposed exclusion which they desire to lodge, within one
month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal
Affairs, Wellington.
SCHEDULE.
AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM BOROUGH OF
TAUMARUNUI.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, in the Borough
of Taumarunui, bounded by a line commencing at the north-
western corner of Ohura South G 4A Block, and proceeding
thence along the western boundaries of Ohura South Nos.
G 4A and G 4B, along the southern boundary of the last-
named block, and along the western boundaries of Nos. G
4E 3 and G 4E 2, to the Main Trunk Railway Reserve ;
thence along the northern side of that reserve to the right
bank of Wanganui River, and north-easterly along the said
right bank, along the north-eastern, north-western, and nor-
thern boundaries generally of Ohura South G No. 4 Block
to the point of commencement.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for
H. Thompson, 275 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
having reasonable ground for supposing that the person
whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder
is engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery 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 by any
fictitious or assumed name) shall be either registered or
forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand,
SCHEDULE.
H. Thompson, 275 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Dated this sixth day of October, 1923.
J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.
Meetings of Auckland Land Board.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th October, 1923.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of
meetings of the Auckland Land Board being held at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, at ten o'clock
a.m. on Wednesday the 23rd January, 27th February,
26th March, 30th April, 28th May, 25th June, 30th July,
27th August, 24th September, 29th October, 26th November,
and 17th December, 1924.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands.
Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act,
1908 (Part III), and its Amendments.
WHEREAS it has been reported to the Public Trustee
that HENRY JOHN PHILLIPS late of Campbell Town,
in Tasmania, in the Commonwealth of Australia, is entitled
to a sum of money—namely, the sum of one hundred and
forty-nine pounds twelve shillings and fivepence (£149 12s. 5d.)
and interest (if any) thereon (hereinafter referred to as “ the
said property”) which said moneys are on fixed deposit in
the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin :
And whereas it is not known where the said Henry John
Phillips is or whether he is alive or dead :
And whereas Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908
(relating to unclaimed property), as amended by section 41
of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, provides
that where the value of unclaimed property does not exceed
one thousand pounds (£1,000) the Public Trustee (with the
consent of the Public Trust Office Board) may by notice in
the Gazette declare his intention to take possession of the said
property and exercise the powers conferred upon him by
section 87 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 :
And whereas the said consent of the Public Trust Office
Board has been duly given :
Now the Public Trustee hereby gives notice that he intends
to take possession of the said property and to exercise in
respect thereof the powers conferred upon him in and by
the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part III), and the amendments thereof.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October, 1923.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.
Result of Land Surveyors Examination, September, 1923.
Office of the Surveyors' Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 6th October, 1923.
AT the examination of candidates for a surveyor's license
held in September, 1923, under the Surveyors' Institute
and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, and conducted by the
Federated Surveyors' Boards of Australia and New Zealand,
forty-two candidates presented themselves in New Zealand.
Seven of these candidates succeeded in obtaining passes, as
under :-
Ballantyne, Garth Carsley, of Auckland.
Callander, Alexander Robert, of Palmerston North.
Campbell, John William, of Morrinsville.
Griffiths, William Ewart, of Auckland.
Hanify, Hugo Page, junior, of Wellington.
Wilson, Vivian Whitta, of Auckland.
Lilly, Alfred Henry William, of Dunedin.
M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors' Board.
Surveyors licensed.
Surveyors' Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 5th October, 1923.
IT is hereby notified, for general information, that licenses
under the Surveyors' Institute and Board of Examiners
Act, 1908, have been issued by the Surveyors Board to the
following surveyors :-
Callander, Alexander Robert, of Palmerston North.
Hanify, Hugo Page, junior, of Wellington.
M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors' Board.