2846.                                                             THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.                                                                 [No. 79

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Awakino Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block I, Awakino Survey District—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Mokau, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 2 acres 0 roods 20 perches.
Portion of Section 10, Native Reserve, Block I, Awakino Survey District. (S.O. 22920.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57889, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured purple.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 24th day of November, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, for Minister of Public Works.

Trustees of the Turanga-o-Moana Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. Ag. 2437.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 25th November, 1924.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Turanga-o-Moana Rabbit District constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that

Charles William Arnold,
David Benjamin Higgins,
William Henry Harding,
John Thomas Montague, and
Wilfred Thomas Walker,

have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 21st November, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Auckland Saddle, Bridle, Harness, Collar, and *Bag Manufacturers’ Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 1124, situated at Auckland, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 21st November, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Denniston Coal-miners’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 963, situated at Denniston, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 38.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1924.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Thomas White Armour.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1924.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Dominion of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Third Schedule annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of their Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1908, of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to:—
The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.
The Salvation Army.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognized office-bearers thereof.

A minister of religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—
(a.) By the recognized head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he belongs; or
(b.) By two duly recognized ministers of such religious body; or
(c.) By ten adult members thereof, who append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such minister is their Officiating Minister, the said signatures and descriptions being attested by some person who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be, by a statutory declaration signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

In order to obviate the necessity for further inquiry, it is also requested that the reason for omitting the name of any minister be stated (such as on account of death, absence from New Zealand, or as the case may be).

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Duty on “Shoddy” Tweeds, Serges, and Suitings.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 25th November, 1924.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Minister of Customs has been asked to restrict the importation of shoddy material by imposing, in addition to any duties otherwise payable, the Customs duties shown below on tweeds, serges, and suitings of wool or containing wool when weighing not less than six and one-half (6½) ounces per square yard, the current domestic values of which for every 16 in. in width or fraction thereof do not exceed the respective values set forth hereunder:—

Where the current domestic value for every 16 in. in width or fraction thereof—
(1.) Does not exceed 10½d. per yard .. 2¼d. per yard.
(2.) Exceeds 10½d. but does not exceed 1s. per yard.. 1½d. per yard.
(3.) Exceeds 1s. put does not exceed 1s. 1½d. per yard .. ¾d. per yard.

Any person who desires to make representations stating reasons why these additional duties should or should not be imposed is hereby invited to send the same to this office not later than one month from the date of the publication of this notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.