May 13.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Meeting of the Aotea District Maori Land Board.

Whanganui, 8th May, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be considered at a meeting of the Aotea District Maori Land Board to be held at Whanganui on Tuesday, the 18th day of May, 1909, at 10.30 a.m.

THOS. W. FISHER, President.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATION.

Maori Lands in Otorohanga Township for lease by Public Auction under "The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900," and its Amendments.

Office of the Maniapoto Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board,

Auckland, 26th April, 1909.

THE undermentioned sections in the Township of Otorohanga will be offered for lease by public auction for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewals for further terms of twenty-one years, at the Public Hall, Otorohanga, on Tuesday, the 1st day of June, 1909, at 11.30 o'clock a.m.

The sections will be offered under the provisions of "The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900," and its amendments, under conditions similar to those under which the other sections in the township have been leased.

Plans of the Township of Otorohanga can be seen and full particulars obtained at the Post-offices at Otorohanga, Hamilton, Cambridge, Rotorua, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Pirongia, Kawhia, Te Kuiti, and Taumarunui; also on application to the President, Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, at Auckland; and at the District Lands Office, Auckland.

JAS. W. BROWNE, President.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WAITOMO COUNTY. — ORAHIRI SURVEY DISTRICT.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court, holden at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD SHORT, of Oliphant Street, Ponsonby, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on Wednesday, the 12th day of May, 1909, at 11 a.m.

HUGH GERARD,

Acting Official Assignee.

Auckland, 4th May, 1909.

In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court, holden at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that ARTHUR GUYON PURCHAS BROOKFIELD and ALFRED JOSEPH CARRIGAN, both of Auckland, trading as "Brookfield and Carrigan," Engineers, of Beach Road, Auckland, have this day been adjudged bankrupts; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on Tuesday, the 18th day of May, 1909, at 2.30 p.m.

HUGH GERARD,

Acting Official Assignee.

Auckland, 8th May, 1909.

In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court, holden at Gisborne.

NOTICE is hereby given that WALTER JOSEPH HENRY WARNER, of Gisborne, Storekeeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on Monday, the 17th day May, 1909, at 2.30 o'clock.

JOHN COLEMAN,

Deputy Official Assignee.

Gisborne, 7th May, 1909.

In Bankruptcy.-In the District Court of Taranaki, holden at Stratford.

In the matter of WILLIAM RUSSELL MACKAY, of Stratford, Stock-dealer, a bankrupt.

NOTICE is hereby given that the public examination of the above-named bankrupt is fixed for the 19th day of May, 1909, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the sitting of the above-named Court in Bankruptcy, at the Courthouse, at Stratford.

Dated this 4th day of May, 1909.

ALFRED COLEMAN,

Deputy Official Assignee.