Notice respecting Proposed Abolition of the Kaipara River
District, County of Waitemata.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th May, 1940.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to
His Excellency the Governor-General, under the River
Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, praying that the
Kaipara River District may be abolished. All persons
affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections
to or petitions against the proposed abolition which
they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication
of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed
to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

D. WILSON,
For the Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 103/26/39.)

Notice as to the making of By-laws under the Agricultural
and Pastoral Societies Amendment Act, 1933.—(Notice No.
Ag. 3738.)

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Agricultural
and Pastoral Societies Amendment Act, 1933, as
amended by section 4 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936,
of the making by the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral
Society on the 12th day of April, 1940, and of the approval
by the Governor-General on the 27th day of April, 1940, of
by-laws under the above-entitled Act, controlling the
admission of persons to any place used or occupied by the said
society for any meeting, show, exhibition, competition, or
entertainment, held by the said society, which said by-laws
came into force on the last-mentioned date. The by-laws
made by the Feilding Industrial Agricultural and Pastoral
Association on the 25th day of October, 1935, and published
in the Gazette on the 21st day of November, 1935, at page
3383, are substantially the same as the by-laws made by the
first-mentioned society.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1940.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
For the Minister of Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 11 of 1940.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 7th May, 1940.

NEW ZEALAND.—COOK STRAIT.—PELORUS SOUND.—OKE
ROCK.

Beacon erected : Buoy removed.

Position : Lat., 40° 55' 8 S.; long. 174° 2' 9 E. (approx.).
Details : The red pillar buoy about half a cable eastward
of Oke Rock has been removed and a beacon with red staff
and cage has been erected on the rock.

Charts affected : Nos. 2684—2685—695—2054—2616—3629.
Publications : New Zealand Pilot, 1930, page 249.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
(M. 3/3/91.)

Officiating Ministers for 1940.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 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 Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Roderick George McKenzie.

The Salvation Army.
Captain Ernest Thomas.

Seventh-day Adventists.
Pastor Charles Edwin Summerfield.

The Ringatu Church.
The Reverend Hori Ngawai.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the
Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II (Unclaimed Lands).

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have
for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office
Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiry
with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder
and the whereabouts of the owner thereof and have, in respect
of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66
of that Act and have in all respects complied with the
provisions of that Act pertinent hereto : And whereas the
owner has not established his title to the said land as required
by the said Act : I hereby give notice that the said land
is under and by virtue of the said Act vested in the Public
Trustee as aforesaid as from the date of the publication
hereof and will be administered under the Public Trust
Office Act, 1908, the value of the land for the purposes of
section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than five hundred
pounds (£500).

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of April, 1940.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situated in the Township of Normanby
in the Patea District in the Province of Taranaki, containing
1 rood, more or less, being Allotment No. 236 of Block 20
in the said Township, and being the whole of the land com-
prised and described in Certificate of Title, Vol. 2, folio 120
(Taranaki District Registry), which said Certificate of Title is
in the name of George Blake, of Tauranga, in the Provincial
District of Auckland, a member of the Armed Constabulary
Force, by virtue of Memorandum of Transfer registered
No. 257, from R. T. Blake, and bearing date the 31st day of
May, 1876.

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, 6th May, 1940.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.