Jan. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 135

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Waitemata Electric-power Board.

WHEREAS by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, it is provided that the first meeting of the Board after the constitution of an electric-power district shall be held at such time and place as the Minister by notice in the Gazette appoints :

And whereas by a notice published in Gazette No. 81, of the 11th day of December, 1924, Friday, the 19th day of December, 1924, at 3 o’clock p.m., was fixed as the time and the Chamber of Commerce, Auckland, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Waitemata Electric-power Board :

And whereas the first meeting of the said Board was not held at the time appointed, and it is considered expedient to appoint another date as the time for holding the first meeting :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Joseph Gordon Goates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Friday, the 16th day of January, 1925, at 2 o’clock p.m., as the time, and the Chamber of Commerce, Auckland, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Waitemata Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of January, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence for Mr. Buchanan, Hamilton’s Buildings, 76 Collins Street, Hobart.

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

SCHEDULE.

Mr. BUCHANAN, Hamilton’s Buildings, 76 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Otago Provincial District excluded from the Operation of Part I of the Fruit Control Act, 1924.—Notice No. Ag. 2457.

A PETITION signed by not less than 70 per centum of the producers of the Provincial District of Otago having been presented to me praying that the district be excluded from the operation of Part I of the Fruit Control Act, 1924, I hereby exclude, in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Act, the said provincial district from the operation of Part I of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of January, 1925.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department,
Wellington, 5th January, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that unclaimed property in the hands of the police at the various police-stations will, if not claimed before Saturday, the 31st January, 1925, be sold thereafter by public auction.

Particulars as to the time and place of sale may be obtained from the Superintendent or Inspector of Police in charge of the district.

A. H. WRIGHT, Commissioner of Police.

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

I, GEORGE HUME SEDDON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that The Marlborough Taxi Owners’ Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Blenheim this 13th day of January, 1925.

G. H. SEDDON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Poisons Act, 1908.—Register of Vendors of Poisons for the Southland District as on the 31st December, 1924.

Asher, Albert, Balfour.
Briscoe and Co., Dee Street, Invercargill.
Cockerill, L. H., Tapanui.
Corbett, J. S., Mataura.
Dalgety and Co., Gore.
Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Wellington, Gore, Invercargill, Lumsden, Otautau, and Queenstown.
Federal Hardware and Furnishing Company (Limited), Gore.
Galbraith, Walter Ernest, 99 Tay Street, Invercargill.
Gilchrist, Katleen Baillie, care of W. Gilchrist, Invercargill.
Gilchrist, William, Dee Street, Invercargill.
Grant, Harold Herbert Francis, Gore.
Green, Albert E., care of U.F.S. Dispensary, Invercargill.
Green, William Theodore, care of W. Stewart, Invercargill.
Johnson, George F., Lumsden.
Kerr, Ernest William, care of R. Winning, Dee Street, Invercargill.
Kirkpatrick, Hugh Herries, Lumsden.
Mair, James William, Dee Street, Invercargill.
Marchant, Phillip John Bowering, care of R. Somerville, Invercargill.
Moffett, George I., Dee Street, Invercargill.
Morton, Arthur, Gore.
Murray, Roberts, and Co. (Limited), Invercargill and Gore.
McGibbon, John, and Sons, Gore, East Gore, and Mataura.
McNaughton, Allan George, care of R. Pollock, Invercargill.
National Mortgage and Agency Company (Limited), Invercargill and Gore.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Invercargill and Gore.
Prentice, James William Allan, U.F.S. Dispensary, Invercargill.
Price, T. J., Riverton.
Quin, Thomas John, Gore.
Robertson, Mary, care of F. J. Price, Riverton.
Sinclair, Charles George Gordon, Otautau.
Shepherd, Edwin Arthur, care of T. Walker, Winton.
Somerville, Robert, Invercargill.
Stewart Bros., Centre Bush.
Stewart, William, Dee Street, Invercargill.
Thomson, A. W., Gore.
Tubb, Frederick George Henry, Spring Hills.
Walker, T., Winton.
Ward, J. G., and Co., Invercargill.
Wilkinson, Gordon Victor, Queenstown.
Winning R., Dee Street, Invercargill.
Wright, Stephenson, and Co. (Limited), Gore.

J. C. MALFROY, Registrar of Poisons.
Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill, 6th January, 1925.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Nelson Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th January, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

LEASE No. S.G.R. 52, Run No. 12, Block VI, Gordon Survey District (N.E.), and Lease No. S.T.L.S. 80, being Section 3s, Block VI, Gordon Survey District. Formerly held by John Pagan. Reason for forfeiture: Property abandoned.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.