1840
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

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.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 17th July, 1922.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office.—Establishment of Agency at Mataura.

IT is notified, for public information, that an agency of the Public Trust Office has been established at Mataura, in charge of Mr. Charles Donohue McConnell as Agent. Dated at Wellington this 17th day of July, 1922.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable FREDERICK REVANS CHAPMAN

to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

JAMES CARSWELL, Esq.,

of Wharepaina, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ERNEST WHITE CAVE

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Riccarton, Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Avon, vice F. W. Hart, transferred; and

GEORGE HUTCHESON LANG

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Palmerston, vice E. W. Cave, transferred; and

WALTER PARKER

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Waipawa, vice L. W. Louisson, transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM FRASER

to be Bailiff of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts at Riverton, on and from the 5th day of July, 1922, vice Constable A. Woods, resigned.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Notice respecting Proposed Waitotahi Drainage District, County of Opotiki.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th July, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Waitotahi Drainage District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED WAITOTahi DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Land District of Auckland, situated in Blocks I and V, Opotiki Survey District, being Sections 394, 400, 410, 411, 412, 418, and 419, Waitotahi Parish.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Nelson Land District forfeited.

Lands and Survey Department,
Wellington, 17th July, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-mentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

L.S.R.L. 72; Section 2, Block XI, Howard Survey District: Area, 1,900 acres. Formerly held by Frederick Keeble. Reason for forfeiture: Selector abandoned property.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 18th July, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, and the Local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 11th day of October, 1922.