FEB. 8.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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, 5th February, 1940.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

Wheat, Oats, and Barley.—Estimated Yields.

Census and Statistics Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1940.

THE following estimated average yields per acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 1939-40 have been compiled from reports furnished by Stock Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, and are now published for general information.

The above estimates may be compared with last season's actual average yields, which were : Wheat, 29·40 bushels ; oats, 47·86 bushels ; and barley, 40·03 bushels.

In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the season 1939–40 should be approximately 8,370,000 bushels, as against an ascertained yield of 5,564,136 bushels for the season 1938-39.

The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ending with 1938-39 averaged 20 per cent. of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 2,240,000 bushels, as against a yield of 2,604,817 bushels for the season 1938-39.

On a similar assumption in regard to barley, the total yield of grain should be approximately 870,000 bushels, as against 1,076,774 bushels for the season 1938-39.

J. W. BUTCHER,
Government Statistician.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 7th February, 1940.

NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 23 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, the registration of the Napier Fishermen's and Fish Shed Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 1570, situated at Napier, will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof.

E. B. TAYLOR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Letters of Naturalization revoked.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th February, 1940.

IT is hereby notified that pursuant to clause 7 of the First Schedule to the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act, 1928, the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs by an order dated the 2nd day of February, 1940, has revoked the letters of naturalization granted to Carl Theodore Hardegg on the 20th day of June, 1923.

J. W. HEENAN, Under-Secretary.
(I.A. 118/8.)

Land Surveyors’ Examination, April, 1940.—Australia and New Zealand.

The Survey Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 1st February, 1940.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Survey Board, in conjunction with the Australian Surveyors' Board, will conduct an examination of candidates for registration as surveyors, commencing at 10 a.m., on Monday, 1st April, 1940, at Wellington.

Candidates are notified that their applications, on the proper form, must reach the Secretary of the Board not later than Monday, 18th March, 1940, and that the examination fee must be paid at the same time to the Secretary, from whom application forms and other particulars may be obtained.

Candidates who have completed at least two years' service under articles of indenture will be accepted for examination in any four or more of the written subjects, and, with candidates completing former sittings, may present themselves for examination at any Chief Surveyor's Office.

New candidates for the full examination will sit in Wellington.

The fees for examination are as follows :

R. G. DICK,
Secretary, Survey Board.

Government Buildings, Wellington.

NOTE.—Rule VIII (1), which allows a student to present himself for examination in subjects 1 to 4 inclusive, on completion of two years under articles of indenture, has been modified, and for the period of the war candidates who have completed two years under articles will be permitted to sit for any four or more of the written subjects prior to preliminary examination.

Officiating Ministers for 1940.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1940.

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

The Reverend Neil Stenson Clarke.

Brethren.

Mr. Robert Yorke Neville.

CORRIGENDUM.

In the List of Officiating Ministers published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th January, 1940, page 86, the name of the Reverend Thomas A. Bergin under the denomination “The Roman Catholic Church” should read the Reverend Thomas Cornelius Bergin.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.