MAY 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1111

DECEASED PERSONS’ ESTATES UNDER ADMINISTRATION—continued.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 6th May, 1924. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Awards of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th May, 1924.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to the undermentioned officers :—

Major J. L. Reed, M.B., Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Major H. Jolly, M.B.E., Retired List, New Zealand Forces.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Foxton Borough Council declaring Plants to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. Ag. 2381.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th May, 1924.

T HE following special order, made by the Foxton Borough Council, is published in accordance with section 2 of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1910.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon it by sections 4 and 5 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, and section 2 of the amending Act of 1910, and all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling, the Foxton Borough Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows :—

That the Foxton Borough Council hereby declares the whole of the plants enumerated in the Third Schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, and its amendments, to be noxious weeds within the Borough of Foxton.

Third Schedule, Noxious Weeds Act.

African boxthorn.
Barberry.
Bathurst burr.
Broom.
Burdock.
Cape honeyflower.
Capeweed or Cape daisy.
Cut-leaved psoralea.
Dock.
Elderberry.
Fennel.
Foxglove.
Giant burdock.
Goat’s rue.
Gorse.
Hakea.
Hemlock.
Japanese wineberry.
Kangaroo acacia.
Lantana.
Lupin.
Ox-eye daisy.
Penny-cress or Canadian stinkweed.
Pennyroyal.
Periwinkle.
Prickly pear.
Spiderwort.
St. John’s wort.
Tauhina, or New Zealand cottonwood.

Thistles : Any species of Carlina (stemless thistle), Carduus (common plume or Scotch thistle), Chicus (woolly-headed thistle), Centaurea (star thistle), Silybum (milk-thistle).

Tutsan.

Viper’s bugloss.

Wild borage.

Wild turnip.

Winged thistle.

Unclaimed Property.—Notice under Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908.

N OTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court made at Wellington on the 30th April, 1924, the Public Trustee is authorized to take possession of all the real and personal property of Vincent Biffen Howard, formerly of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Furniture-manufacturer, but whose present whereabouts are unknown, and to exercise in respect of such property the powers conferred on him by Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and that the Public Trustee intends to exercise such powers forthwith.

Dated the 3rd day of May, 1924.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1924.

P URSUANT 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. Eric Robert Alexander.

Mr. Arthur F. Attwood.

The Reverend Paraire R. Paikea.

The Reverend James Maurice Smeeth.

Mr. Hone Taotahi.

Mr. McDavis Wharehuia.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Elder Ezra Hansen Anderson.

Elder Wayne Telford Wiser.

Elder George Leonard Young.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 16.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1924.

I T is hereby notified that the names of the following Officiating Ministers have been removed from the list of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :—

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Elder Jonathan Royal Bennett,

Elder Charles Hanson Hollingworth.

Elder Joseph Maiben Stephenson.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.