JUNE 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2171

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th June, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 5½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 1st February, 1936, will be closed from the 15th July to the 1st August, 1927 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

Result of Election of a Member of the Onehunga and Tauranga Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1927.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Onehunga and Tauranga Fire Boards by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926.

Onehunga .. .. George Harry Brialey.
Tauranga .. .. Thomas Leslie Binney.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1927.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

Hugh Miller, Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Greymouth.

R. A. WRIGHT,
For Minister of Telegraphs.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for the Great Hamburg State Lottery.

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

SCHEDULE.

THE Great Hamburg State Money Lottery, Grindelberg 76, Hamburg, Germany.
W. Moller, Grindelberg 76, Hamburg, Germany.

Dated this 23rd day of June, 1927.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Postmaster-General.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Butchers’ Shops within the Borough of Hawera.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the butchers’ shops within the Borough of Hawera, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the said borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 5 p.m., and on Saturdays at 5.30 p.m.

And whereas I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 11th day of July, 1927, all the butchers’ shops within the Borough of Hawera shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of June, 1927.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

Notice by the Public Trustee declaring his Intention to Take Possession of and administer Property under Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

WHEREAS James Patrick Long, of Auckland, Commission Agent, is entitled to the sum of £25, being a legacy under the will of Henry Long, deceased, late of Auckland, gentleman:

And whereas it is not known where the said James Patrick Long is, or whether he is alive or dead:

And whereas the Public Trustee has been requested to take possession of and administer the said property:

And whereas the Public Trustee is satisfied that it is advisable, in the interests of the said James Patrick Long, that he should do so:

And whereas the value of the said property does not exceed £1,000:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers in that behalf conferred on him by section 87 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, as amended by section 41 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, the Public Trustee, with the consent of the Public Trust Office Board, hereby gives notice that he intends to take possession of such property and to exercise in respect thereof the powers conferred upon him in and by the said section 87.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of June, 1927.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1927.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1927.

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:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called The Church of England.

The Reverend Harold James West Knights.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Whangarei and District Returned Soldiers Association (Incorporated), is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland, this 22nd day of June, 1927.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Auckland on 26th July, 1927.

Registrar’s Office,
Auckland, 25th June, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Auckland on the 26th day of July, 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Waikato—Maniapoto, 1927/9.]

E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR COMPENSATION.

No. 13. Applicant: Heatherington Collieries, Ltd. Name of land: Pepepe, Lot 74. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for mining purposes.