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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £400 in each case.

Wellington, 23rd February, 1920.

ROBERT TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

Defining Tauranga River and Extended-river Limits.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Marine, do hereby define the Tauranga limits within which restricted-limit steamships and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted-limit certificates are issued, may ply to be those set forth herein; and I do divide such limits into river and extended-river limits.

River Limits.—Inside the Heads of Tauranga Harbour, including inside passage to Katikati.

Extended-river Limits.—Between Katikati and the new outlet of Rangitaiki River; and, in fine weather only, inside straight lines drawn from the North Rock, Tauranga, to the northernmost and southernmost points respectively of Motiti Island, including the west coast only of the said island.

Previous limits are hereby revoked.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 20th day of February, 1920.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Marine.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in the Canterbury Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th February, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 6th April, 1920.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, 8th April, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m. The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Ashburton County.—Rakaia Survey District.—Riverina Settlement.

Light agricultural land, in grass; suitable for sheep-farming; watered by the Rakaia River, and there is also a county water-race in the north-west corner that can be brought down through all the sections.

The improvements that go with the land are for fencing valued as follows: Section 1, 168 chains, £95; Section 2, 130 chains, £72; Section 3, 158 chains, £93; Section 4, 169 chains, £97; Section 5, 134 chains, £77.

There are also plantations on Sections 1, 4, and 5.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.