DEC. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3767

Stocks of Flour, Wheat, and Oats.

A CENSUS of stocks of flour, wheat, and oats in the Dominion was taken as at the 30th November, 1940, when the following quantities were returned: Flour, 17,774 tons; wheat, 2,653,697 bushels (including 2,400,263 bushels of milling-wheat); and 589,660 bushels of oats. Returns were received covering all stocks owned or stored by millers, merchants, and farmers throughout the Dominion, with a few unimportant exceptions which would not appreciably affect the totals given.

STOCKS BY DISTRICTS.

North Auckland, Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki Wellington Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Canterbury Otago and Southland Totals ..

STOCKS HELD BY MILLERS, MERCHANTS, AND FARMERS.

Millers .. Merchants Farmers .. Totals ..

STOCKS OWNED BY MILLERS, MERCHANTS, AND FARMERS.

Millers .. Merchants Farmers .. Totals, 30/11/40 Corresponding figures, 30/11/39

Census and Statistics Department,
Wellington, 19th December, 1940.
J. W. BUTCHER, Government Statistician.
Public Service Superannuation Fund.--Election of Members of the Board.

NOTICE is hereby given that an election will be held on Monday, the 3rd day of March, 1941, for the purpose of electing, as members of the Public Service Superannuation Board, two representatives of the contributors who belong to the Post and Telegraph Department, one representative of the contributors who belong to the Police Force, and three representatives of the contributors who belong to other departments of the Public Service.

The said election will be held at the office of the Public Service Superannuation Board, Government Life Insurance Building, Customhouse Quay, Wellington C. 1.

A separate ballot will be taken of the contributors who belong to the Post and Telegraph Department, of the contributors who belong to the Police Force, and of the contributors who belong to other departments of the Public Service.

Nominations will be received by the Returning Officer, in the form prescribed by Regulation 44 under the Public Service Superannuation Act, 1927, until Friday, the 31st day of January, 1941, at 4.30 o'clock p.m. The voting-lists will be closed on the same date.

The poll will close at 5 o'clock p.m. on the 3rd March, 1941. Ballot-papers, if posted, must be posted to the Returning Officer, not later than 5 o'clock p.m. on 3rd March, 1941, and must reach him not later than 5 o'clock p.m. on the fifteenth day thereafter. Ballot-papers, if delivered to the Returning Officer, must be so delivered in a sealed envelope not later than 5 o'clock p.m. on the 3rd March, 1941.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of December, 1940.
M. P. FINNIGAN, Returning Officer.
Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931.

Ikaroa District Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 13th December, 1940.

IT is hereby notified that an 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.
P. H. DUDSON, Registrar.
SCHEDULE.
ADOPTING parent: Butler te Koeti Turanga.
Adopted child : Ivy Rebecca Koeti McColl, now named Ivy Rebecca te Koeti Turanga.
Whakaatu tangohanga Tamaiti Whangai i raro i Wahi 1X o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931.

Tari Kooti Whenua Maori, Ikaroa,
Poneke, 13 o Tihema, 1940.
HE whakaaturanga tenei kia mohiotia ai kua hangaia e te Kooti Whenua Maori i raro i nga tikanga o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931, tetahi ota whakamana i te tangohanga o tetahi tamaiti whangai, e whakaaturia nei e te Kupu Apiti i raro nei.

TE TATIHANA, Kai-rehita.
KUPU APITI.
Te matua whangai : Butler te Koeti Turanga.
Tamaiti whangai : Ivy Rebecca Koeti McColl, ko Ivy Rebecca te Koeti Turanga tona ingoa i naianei,