684 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 13

Members of the Carter Observatory Board

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been
pleased, in accordance with section 5 of the Carter Observa-
tory Act, to approve—

Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.Inst.P.,
Charles Guy Glossop Berry, Esquire,
Russell Gladstone Dick, Esquire,
David Charles Hamilton Florence, M.A., M.Sc.,
Robert Cecil Hayes, Esquire,
Frederick Fisher Miles, M.A.,
Edwin Philip Norman, B.E., B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E.,
Charles Machell Norman Watson-Munro, O.B.E., M.Sc.,
A.M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P., and
Frederick William Furkert, C.M.G., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E.,
M.N.Z.I.E.,

to be members of the Carter Observatory Board for a period of two
years as from 1st January, 1949.

F. R. CALLAGHAN, Secretary.

Friendly Society Registered

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1949.

THE Reefton Working Men’s Club and Mutual School of Arts,
with registered office at Reefton, is registered as a Working
Men’s club under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 22nd day of
February, 1949.

S. BECKINGSALE, Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1949.—Notice No. 5

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1949.

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 Robert Daniel Hughes.
The Reverend William Fredric Wilkens.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

The Reverend James Duncan McFarlane.

Wellington Spiritualist Church

Mr. Reuben Alexander Webb.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

DON RUDOLPH MELHOSE, of 10 North Avenue, Devonport,
Auckland, Contractor, was adjudged bankrupt on the 21st
February, 1949. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on
Wednesday, 2nd March, 1949, at 10.30 a.m.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.

4th Floor, Dilworth Buildings, Customs Street East, Auckland
C. 1.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

IVAN YELAVICH, of Forest Hill Road, Henderson, Wine-
grower, was adjudged bankrupt on the 25th February, 1949.
Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, the 10th
March, 1949, at 2.30 p.m.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.

4th Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland
C. 1.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

AUSTIN WALKER, of 20 Gladstone Road, Mount Albert,
Auckland, Painter and Paperhanger, was adjudged bankrupt
on the 25th February, 1949. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my
office on Friday, the 11th March, 1949, at 2.30 p.m.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.

4th Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland
C. 1.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

TUA MURRAY, of Manakau, Labourer, was adjudged bankrupt
on the 23rd February, 1949. Creditors’ meeting will be held
at the Courthouse, Levin, on Friday, 4th March, 1949, at 2.30 p.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Palmerston North.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN GUNN, of Waitepeka, Farmer,
was this day adjudged bankrupt ; and I hereby summon a
meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 8th
day of March, 1949, at noon.

Dated at Dunedin, this 23rd day of February, 1949.

C. MASON, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 741, folio 12
(Auckland Registry), for 1 rood 1·4 perches, situated in the
Borough of Cambridge, being Lot 10, Deposited Plan 7624, and
being portion Allotment 341, Town of Cambridge East, whereof
WILLIAM SANDS, of Cambridge, Farmer, is the registered pro-
prietor, having been lodged with me together with an application
for the issue of a certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby
given of my intention to issue such certificate of title on the 18th
March, 1949.

Dated this 25th day of February, 1949, at the Land Registry
Office, Auckland.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 3, folio 224
(Nelson Registry), for 11 perches, being Section 13 of the
Town of Reefton, in favour of THOMAS PHILLIPS, formerly of
Reefton, Solicitor, now deceased, having been lodged with me
together with an application for the issue of a new certificate of
title in lieu thereof, I hereby give notice of my intention to issue
such new certificate of title after fourteen days from the date of
the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 1st day of March, 1949, at the Land Registry Office,
Nelson.

A. FOWLER, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of lease of small grazing-run, Vol. 290,
flio 189 (Otago Registry), for Sections 26 and 27, Block III,
Maniototo District, containing 154 acres, in the name of ARTHUR
BLANCHARD, of Naseby, Farmer, having been lodged with me
together with an application for a provisional lease in lieu thereof,
notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such provisional
lease on 11th March, 1949.

Dated this 21st day of February, 1949, at the Land Registry
Office, Dunedin.

E. B. C. MURRAY, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS

PUBLIC NOTICE

THE COAL ACT, 1948

PUBLIC notice is given that, by virtue of the provisions of
section 28 of the Coal Act, 1948, no person as from 1st April,
1949, shall prospect or mine for coal on privately owned land except
pursuant to a licence or lease obtained from the Crown pursuant to
the powers of the Coal-mines Act, 1925.

Holders of rights to prospect or mine for coal from the private
owners, and private owners who are mining coal on their own land
may obtain coal-mining rights from the Crown by making application
before 1st April, 1949, to the nearest Warden’s Court if the land is
within a mining district, or to the nearest Commissioner of Crown
Lands if the land is outside a mining district.

Notice at the same time must also be given to the Under-
Secretary for Mines, P.O. Box 342, Te Aro, Wellington, of the
existence and nature of these rights, accompanied by certified
copies of documents by virtue of which the right is claimed, or in
the case of a person who is carrying on coal-mining operations on
private land owned by him, of the nature of the mining operations
and particulars of the land affected thereby.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1949.

C. H. BENNEY, Under-Secretary.