SEPT. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2765

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.

*Correcting entry in New Zealand Gazette No. 81, dated 23rd September, 1920, page 2706.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 29th September, 1920. ROBERT TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District. Government Offices to be closed on Monday, 25th October, 1920 (Labour Day).

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 18th September, 1920.

THE following result of the election of a trustee of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.

Mangawara Drainage District, County of Waikato— Ewen McGregor.

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 22nd September, 1920.

AS provided under Public Service Regulations, the Government Offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Monday, the 25th October, 1920, being Labour Day.

W. R. MORRIS, Public Service Commissioner.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Pastoral Runs in Otago Land District for Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, 28th September, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs are open for license by discharged soldiers under Part VI of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915. The selectors of these runs will be required to select the areas of settlement land attached thereto, in terms of the Land for Settlements Act as set out below.

Applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 22nd day of November, 1920.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office Dunedin, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 24th November, 1920.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TUAPEKA COUNTY.— Benger Survey District.

Run 645 (Class B): Area, 770 acres; term, twenty-one years; half-yearly rental, £35; capital value, £1,750; valuation for improvements, £128 7s. (fencing).

The successful applicant will be required to take a license (expiring at the same time as the run license) under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 1s, Dalmain Settlement; area, 536 acres; capital value, £4,000; half-yearly rent, £90. The valuation for buildings to be paid for separately is £85, payable in cash or in five years by ten half-yearly instalments of £9 16s. 4d. These buildings consist of iron hut now on section, and open-front iron shed now on Allotment 2s, to be removed by the lessee of Allotment 1s, and re-erected on his allotment at his own expense. Total half-yearly payment on license, £99 16s. 4d. The improvements included in the capital value are for fencing, £514 4s.

Run 646 (Class B): Area, 855 acres; term, twenty-one years; capital value, £3,840; half-yearly rental, £76 16s.; valuation for improvements, £86 1s. (fencing).

The successful applicant will be required to take a license (expiring at the same time as the run license) under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 2s, Dalmain Settlement; area, 620 acres; capital value, £5,260; half-yearly rental, £118 7s. The valuation for buildings to be paid for separately is £345, payable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £17 8s. 6d. These buildings consist of wool-shed, yards, and dip now on section; men’s hut now on Allotment 5s, to be removed by the lessee of Allotment 2s and re-erected on his allotment at his own expense. Total half-yearly payment on license, £135 15s. 6d. The improvements included in the capital value are for fencing, £426 9s.

Run 647 (Class B): Area, 807 acres; term, twenty-one years; capital value, £3,690; half-yearly rental, £73 16s.; valuation for improvements, £262 10s. (fencing).

The successful applicant will be required to take a license (expiring at the same time as the run license) under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 3s, Dalmain Settlement; area, 510 acres; capital value, £2,740; half-yearly rental, £61 13s. The valuation for buildings to be paid for separately is £110, payable in cash or in five years by ten half-yearly instalments of £12 14s. 1d. These buildings consist of stable, car-shed, yard, old chaff-house, old open-front shed now on Allotment 5s, to be removed by the lessee of Allotment 3s and re-erected on his allotment at his own expense. Total half-yearly payment on license, £74 7s. 1d. The improvements included in the capital value are for fencing, £301 10s.

Wart Hill and Benger Survey Districts.

Run 592A (Class A): Area, 2,500 acres; term, twenty-one years; capital value, £625; half-yearly rental, £12 10s. Weighted with valuation for fencing, £73 14s.

The successful applicant will be required to take a license (expiring at the same time as the run license) under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 18s, Westcott Settlement; area, 402 acres; capital value, £3,460;