Nov. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2845

Meetings of Marlborough Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Marlborough Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 15th January, 12th February, 12th March, 16th April, 14th May, 11th June, 9th July, 13th August, 10th September, 8th October, 12th November, and 10th December, during the year 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointment in the New Zealand (Reserve) Naval Forces.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointment in the New Zealand (Reserve) Naval Forces :—

Commander John Richards Middleton, D.S.O., R.N. (retired), to be a Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division), with seniority to date 17th of November, 1924.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for F. A. Stutfield, Gosford “Five” Art Union, and Fruit and Vegetable By-Products (Limited), Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person, art union, and company whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are 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, art union, or company shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person, art union, or company (either by their own or any fictitious or assumed names), or addressed to any of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

F. A. STUTFIELD, President, Gosford Sub-branch, Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 178 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

Gosford “Five” Art Union, 178 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

Fruit and Vegetable By-Products (Limited), Rooms 7 and 8, Country Press Chambers, Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

Dated this 21st day of November, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Bonus for a Method of exterminating Blackberry.—Notice No. Ag. 2436.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 19th November, 1924.

THE New Zealand Government hereby offers, subject to the conditions stated below, a bonus of ten thousand pounds (£10,000), payable in New Zealand, for an efficient, practical, and economical method of exterminating blackberry, otherwise than by cultivation or farm-management methods such as seeding, tree-planting, or live-stock manipulation.

Applicants for the bonus must prove to the satisfaction of a Committee (to be appointed by the Minister of Agriculture) by actual trials commencing at the times, and continuing over the periods, specified by the Committee and on areas of blackberry not less than one acre in extent to be provided for the purpose by the Government—

(1.) That the method is fully effective in exterminating blackberry at a cost not more than double that of cutting the plants down to about ground level by hand on land similar to that on which the trials are made ;

(2.) That the method does not impair the normal fertility of the soil or its capacity for producing pasture plants, or cause risk to the health of farm animals afterwards depastured upon the land where the method has been applied ;

(3.) That the method is readily applicable to and effective against blackberry growing on land of all classes, including broken and steep country and land carrying rocks, stumps, and felled timber.

Applicants must state in their applications full particulars of the method they propose, including the amount of water (if any) needed per acre, also the actual cost for each of the following—namely, apparatus, materials, labour, and any other items, that are needed for complete extermination of blackberry by the method submitted : the cost to be stated where practicable at per acre, and to have been ascertained by the actual treatment of an area of not less than one acre of heavily infested land that has been successfully dealt with by that method.

Applicants must also state what lump sum (excluding the bonus of £10,000) would be required to purchase the New Zealand rights of their method in the event of such rights being acquired by the New Zealand Government for free use of all occupiers of land in New Zealand ; or, if any applicant is unwilling to sell his rights, what royalty he would require for the use of his method.

Applications, giving the full name and the telegraphic and postal addresses of the applicant, must be forwarded by registered post to the Director-General, Department of Agriculture, Box 888, Wellington, New Zealand.

The bonus will be paid to the person whose application is first received by the Director-General and whose method, in the opinion of the Committee, fully complies with the above-mentioned conditions.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Elections to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 25th November, 1924. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

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