Dec. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2409

Constituting Tihiotonga Development Scheme.

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby declares the lands described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part I of the said Act and to be called or known as the Tihiotonga Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE.

THE following land, situate in the Waiariki Native Land Court District :—

Block. Area: Survey
A. R. P. District.
Tihiotonga C 2A 264 1 10 Horohoro.
Tihiotonga C No. 1 91 1 21 ,,
Tihiotonga D 557 1 13 ,,
Puketawhero Part A 2B 1 10 3 30 Tarawera.
Tihiotonga C 2B 1,069 0 0 ,,
Tihiotonga A 425 0 0 ,,
Part Section 10, Block II, Tarawera Survey District (comprising parts Puketawhero A 9 and 10A, A 2A 1, A 2B 2, Rotomahana-Parekarangi 4, and Owatiura South 5) 504 1 0 ,,
Section 7, Block II, Tarawera Survey District (comprising parts Wharenui B, Puketawhero B 7A, B 7B, and Rotomahana-Parekarangi 4) 580 3 0 ,,
Section 4B, Block II, Tarawera Survey District (comprising parts Wharenui A 1, A 2, and A 3, Rotomahana-Parekarangi 4, and Whakapoungakau 16/2B 2G 1) 1,654 0 0 ,,
Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1936.

O. N. CAMPBELL,
W. STEWART,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

Notice to Mariners No. 56 of 1936.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 9th December, 1936.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—GISBORNE HARBOUR.

Dredging Operations.

MARINERS are hereby advised that the new dredger “A.C.” is now regularly employed dredging in the harbour and fairway. Moorings are frequently laid out in several directions and it is necessary for masters to exercise care and to reduce speed when navigating in the vicinity of the dredger which will exhibit a black ball on the side on which vessels should pass.

Chart affected : No. 3321.

Publications : New Zealand Pilot, 1930, page 214; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, 1936 edition, page 216, 1937 edition, page 222.

Authority : Gisborne Harbour Board, 25/11/36.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 3/13/548.)

Officiating Ministers for 1936.—Notice No. 44.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1936.

PURSUANT 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 :—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Wyvern Herbert Dawson Warin, LL.B.

The Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Norbert Berridge.
The Reverend John Francis McCarthy.
The Reverend John Pierce.
The Reverend Francis Rice.
The Reverend Norman von Rotter.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1936.—Notice No. 45.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1936.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned name of an officiating minister has been removed from the List of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :—

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Bernard Raymond Hames, M.A.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 7th December, 1936.

THE Wharerata Medical Association, with registered office at Gisborne, is registered as a friendly society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 7th day of December, 1936.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931

Native Land Court Office,
Wanganui, 7th December, 1936.

IT is hereby notified that the order of adoption as set out in the Schedule hereunder has been made by the Native Land Court under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1931.

M. J. LAWLESS, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Adopting parent : Tuka Peni.
Adopted child : Ngareta Nikorima.

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election 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, 7th December, 1936. E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.