662 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 14

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th February, 1924.
I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government: £1, forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington; £1, forwarded to the Treasury Department, Wellington.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

Election of Member of Westland Land Board.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 3rd March, 1924.
I, WILLIAM THEODORE MORPETH, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Westland 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

George Mallinson, Esq., of Moana,

and I do therefore hereby declare that the said George Mallinson is duly elected a member of the Westland Land Board as from the 29th March, 1924.

WILLIAM THEODORE MORPETH,
Returning Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1924.
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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Mawson, M.A.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend C. Argyll-Saxby.

The United Evangelical Church in New Zealand.
The Reverend Thomas Russell Cameron.

Wellington Spiritualists' Society.
Mr. Rueben A. Webb.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Education Act, 1914.—Election of Members of the General Council of Education.

Education Department,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1924.
ELECTIONS of members of the General Council of Education will be held on the 12th May, 1924. The poll will close at 5 o'clock on that day. Ten members are to be elected by the following eight classes of electors: Two members by the members of the Education Boards in the North Island, and two members by the members of the Education Boards in the South Island; one member by certificated male teachers of public schools in the North Island, and one member by certificated male teachers of public schools in the South Island; one member by male teachers in secondary and technical schools; one member by certificated women teachers of public schools in the North Island, and one member by certificated women teachers of public schools in the South Island; one member by the women teachers of secondary and technical schools.

Nominations will be received by the Returning Officer up till 5 p.m. on the 22nd April, 1924, in the form prescribed by regulation dated 27th February, 1915, and shown below. No person shall be eligible for election unless he is nominated by at least two electors entitled to vote for his election. For every election the rolls shall be closed on 22nd April, 1924, and shall remain closed until the election is completed. If necessary to hold an election, ballot-papers containing a list of all the duly nominated candidates for such election will be posted to each elector entitled to vote.

NOMINATION-PAPER.

We [Names and addresses], being electors duly entered on the [Name of roll] Roll for the election of members of the General Council of Education, do hereby nominate [Nominee's name and address] as a candidate for election to the said Council by the electors on the aforesaid roll at the election to be held on the day of , 19 .

[Signature of Nominators.]
Dated at this day of , 19 .

Candidate's consent, to be subscribed at foot of nomination paper:—
I hereby consent to my nomination—

[Signature of candidate nominated.]
Dated at this day of , 19 .

F. L. SEVERNE, Returning Officer.

Unclaimed Lands.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE UNDER THE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE ACT (PART II), AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

To the owner of the following land, that is to say: All that piece of land situate in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 1.1 perches, more or less, being part Section 59, Block VII, Town District, and being the strip of land 3 ft. wide by 100 ft. in length lying between Allotments 11 and 12, Block LXVIII, Township of St. Kilda, and Allotments 80, 81, and 82, Subdivision No. 2 of Forbury Park Township, and being part of the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 4, folio 356, in the name of John Reid, of Dunedin, Merchant.

WHEREAS, after due inquiry, the owner of the above-described land cannot be found: And whereas the said owner has no known agent in New Zealand:

Now the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the said land, and if he fails or neglects so to do the Public Trustee will exercise as regards the said land the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II), and its amendments.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1924.

E. O. HALES,
Deputy of the Public Trustee.

Mining Privileges struck off the Registers.—Notice under the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Warden's Court, Queenstown, 29th February, 1924.
NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of the provisions of section 30 (4) of the Mining Amendment Act, 1914, that the mining privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto have this day been struck off the Register.

F. STOOP, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.