Oct. 25.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In pursuance of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923, I hereby give notice that at the poll on the 17th October, the number of valid votes recorded for each proposal submitted under section 2 of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923, was as follows :-

For the proposal that the Act be brought into operation, 22,284; for the proposal that the Act be not brought into operation, 9,255.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of October, 1923.
G. G. Hodgkins, Returning Officer.

Appeals against the Requirements of Inspectors as to clearing Land under the Noxious Weeds Act.--Notice No. Ag. 2306.

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 19th October, 1923.

IN accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1923, it is hereby notified for public information that Mr. Alexander Reid Young, Director of the Live-stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, Customhouse, Wellington, has been appointed by me to receive and determine appeals lodged in accordance with the provisions of the said subsection.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Conscience-money received.
The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th October, 1923.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amount forwarded by a person unknown as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government :—
£5 forwarded to the “Government Stores Department” (Post and Telegraph Department).
J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

Public Trust Office.—Establishment of Agency at Murchison.

IT is notified for public information that an agency of the Public Trust Office has been established at Murchison, in charge of Mr. Hugh Fraser as Agent.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of October, 1923.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

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

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the KAIRARA GUM INDUSTRIES 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 16th day of October, 1923.
H. B. WALTON,
Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

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

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the MATAMATA 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 16th day of October, 1923.
H. B. WALTON,
Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

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

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the CHEVALIER BOWLING CLUB (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 13th day of October, 1923.
H. B. WALTON,
Acting Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Surveyors licensed.

Surveyors' Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 18th 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 :-

Wilson, Vivian Whitta, of Auckland.
Lilly, Alfred Henry William, of Dunedin.
M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors' Board.

Election of Member of Nelson Land Board.

I, NORMAN CHARLES KENSINGTON, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Nelson Land Board, do hereby notify, in accordance with the provisions of section 41 of the Land Act, 1908. and the regulations made thereunder, that the only person nominated to fill the vacancy occurring on the said Board was Robert Patterson, Esq., of Westport.

I do therefore hereby declare the said ROBERT PATTERSON to be duly elected a member of the Nelson Land Board for a term of two years from the 18th December, 1923.

Dated at Nelson this 19th day of October, 1923.
N. C. KENSINGTON, Returning Officer.

Public Trustee.—Elections to administer Estates.—Section 15 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £400 in each case.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 23rd October, 1923.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.