754

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 27

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, 12 May 1953.

G. E. TURNEY, Public Trustee.

Unclaimed Lands—Notice by the Public Trustee Under the Public Trust Office Act 1908 and its Amendments

To the owner of the following land, that is to say: All that parcel of land containing fifty acres (50 ac.), more or less, being Allotment 75, Apata Parish, being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 945, folio 28 (Auckland Registry), limited as to title and area, and being all the land comprised and described in a Crown grant dated the 8th day of April 1869 to one Isaac Lloyd, late private in the First Regiment of Waikato Militia.

WHEREAS after due inquiry, the owner of the above-described land cannot be found:

And whereas the said owner has no known agent in New Zealand:

Now the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the said land, and if he fails or neglects so to do, the Public Trustee will exercise as regards the said land the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act 1908 (Part II) and its amendments.

Dated this 30th day of April 1953.

G. E. TURNEY, Public Trustee.

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 Roman Catholic Church

The Reverend Sebastian Palich.

Congregational Independents

The Reverend Dudley Bright Ashford.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of May 1953.

S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

Releasing Land From the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936—Mohaka Development Scheme

Pursuant to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 29th day of September 1933 and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 69 of the 5th day of October 1933, at page 2482, whereby the provisions of section 522 of the Maori Land Act 1931 (now Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936) were applied to, inter alia, the said land.

SCHEDULE

Land. Block and Survey District. Area. A. R. P.
Mohaka A 55A IX, Waihua 0 1 0
Mohaka A 55B IX, Waihua 12 1 28
(comprising the whole of the blocks formerly known as Mohaka 18B 4 and 18B 5).

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of May 1953.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,

Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 64/5; D.O. M.H. 1565)

Marketing—Agriculture Departments (Notice No. Ag. 5427)

The Marketing Amendment Act 1953 of the 30th April 1953, abolished the Marketing Department. As from that date all rights, powers, duties, functions, discretions, liabilities, and contracts exercisable by, vested in, or binding on the Marketing Department became exercisable by, vested in, or binding on the Department of Agriculture.

All Acts and regulations exercised by the Marketing Department are now administered by the Department of Agriculture.

Functions previously performed by the Marketing Department will, for the time being, be carried on by the Marketing Division of the Department of Agriculture at the addresses previously used by the Marketing Department.

E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.