2592

Including Additional Lands in the Tauranga Development Scheme.

Pursuant to section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby declares the Native lands described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part I of the said Act and to be included in the Tauranga Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE.

The following Native land situate in the Waiairiki Native Land Court District:

Land.
Matapihi lA 3D 6B
,, 3A 2B 2J
Ngapeke 4A

Block and Survey District. A. R. P.
XI, Tauranga.. 10 0 24
XI, Tauranga.. 13 2 07
XV, Tauranga 46 2 26
(Approx.)

Total .. .. 70 1 17

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of November, 1937.
O. N. CAMPBELL,
W. STEWART,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

Including Additional Land in the Te Kaha Development Scheme.

Pursuant to section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby declares the Native Land described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part I of the said Act and to be included in the Te Kaha Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE.

All that area of Native land containing 2,787 acres, more or less, in the Waiariki Native Land Court District, situate in Blocks V and VI, Haparapara Survey District, and known as part of Te Karaka No. 2 Block, being more particularly shown as Lot 1 on Deposited Plan No. 11455, and being part of the land in Provisional Register, Vol. 106, folio 44, Gisborne Registry.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of November, 1937.
O. N. CAMPBELL,
W. STEWART,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

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

Office of the Registrar-General,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1937.

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 llth 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.

In each case enumerated under paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) above, the Minister of Justice must be satisfied that the body of persons named in the certificate is a religious body, and that the applicant is a minister of religion and is a person of good character and otherwise qualified to act as an Officiating Minister. In the case of the religious body known as "Brethren" a special form of certificate will be supplied on application.

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

A woman shall not be disqualified by reason of her sex from being an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the Marriage Act, or from having her name entered upon the List of Officiating Ministers compiled for the purposes of that 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).

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 23rd November, 1937.

Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 17th January, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 19th January, 1938, at 10.30 o'clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, and lease fee.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — SECOND - CLASS LAND. Bay of Islands County.—Kawakawa Parish.

ALLOTMENTS 253, 254, and 255 : Area, 73 acres 2 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £80. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 8s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £1 12s.

The sections are situated on Whangae Road, three miles from Kawakawa Railway-station by metalled road. The whole area is undulating and easy rising country in manuka, fern, hakea, and gorse, and is practically all ploughable. The soil is of poor clay on sandstone. Watered by a permanent stream.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 20/568 ; D.O. E.R. 843.)