Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 113

Deceased Persons’ Estates.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the month of December, 1907.

Drowned.

Dated the 7th day of January, 1908. J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the deceased persons whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

John Franklin Lemon, late of Tauranga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, saddler. Filed on the 4th day of December, 1907.

Archibald Batchelor Morrison, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland. Filed on the 4th day of December, 1907.

Henry Ward, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, carpenter. Filed on the 5th day of December, 1907.

Martha Maryann Hawkes, late of Dovedale, in the Provincial District of Nelson, spinster. Filed on the 10th day of December, 1907.

John Sutherland Sutherland, late of Carterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, grocers’ assistant. Filed on the 17th day of December, 1907.

Harriet Monson, late of Caversham, in the Provincial District of Otago, a minor. Filed on the 17th day of December, 1907.

Edwin Ethelred Gower, late of Ohingaiti, in the Provincial District of Wellington, commission agent. Filed on the 17th day of December, 1907.

Annie Fitts, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, domestic. Filed on the 19th day of December, 1907.

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George Sutherland Taylor MacEwen, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, store-manager, Filed on the 19th day of December, 1907.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner 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 me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act; the value of the land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1907.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment No. 237, Town of Hamilton East. Bounded on the north-east by Allotment No. 236, 182 links; on the south-east by a road, 550 links; on the south-west by a road, 182 links; on the north-west by Allotment No. 238, 550 links.