SEPT. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2641
CROWN LANDS NOTICE.
Reserve in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.
District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 19th September, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 24th October, 1922, for a lease of the undermentioned section, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and amendments.
SCHEDULE.
SUBDIVISION 11 of Section 45, Block V, Hawera Survey District, Hawera County: Area, 7 acres 0 roods 1 perch; term, five years; upset annual rent, £12 10s.
Situated on the Ketemarae Road about a mile from the Normanby Railway-station. The section is practically all flat, with the exception of a slope down to a swampy creek. The section is triangular in shape, and is bounded by a high live fence on two sides, and a wire fence and swamp on the other. Badly watered. Suitable for grazing or a holding paddock.
ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months' rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee.
2. Residence is not compulsory, and no statutory declaration is required. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee nor for any other cause.
3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.
4. The lease shall be for the term of five years, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months' notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.
5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.
6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, of otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
7. The lessee shall not take more than two crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a second crop of any kind he shall sow the land down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers.
8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbrier on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbrier, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands; and he shall, at the proper season in each year, clip and trim all gorse and other live fences on the land included in the lease.
9. The lessee will keep all buildings, fences, ditches, drains, watercourses, gates, fixtures, and other things upon and about the land in good order and condition.
10. The lessee shall at the expiration of the term yield up the whole of the land in permanent pasture of grasses and clovers.
11. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the day on which the same ought to be fulfilled.
    The reserve is described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.
    Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained at this office.
    H. J. LOWE,
    Commissioner of Crown Lands.
    BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.
    In the matter of HUGHES AND WOOD, of Woodside, Storekeepers.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named Partnership is dissolved as from the 22nd day of July, 1922. Creditors in the Partnership must forward their claims, duly certified as owing, to the undersigned within one month from the date of this advertisement, otherwise such claims are liable to be excluded.
    Dated at Dunedin this 13th day of September, 1922.
    W. W. SAMSON,
    Receiver of the Partnership Assets, Law Courts' Building, Dunedin.
    In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court holden at Auckland.
    NOTICE is hereby given that HENRY JAMES HANSEN, of 24 Vincent Street, Auckland, Engineer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday, the 22nd day of September, 1922, at 2.30 o'clock.
    W. S. FISHER, Official Assignee. 16th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court holden at Auckland.
    NOTICE is hereby given that ALEXANDER McLEAN, of Opotiki, Baker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at the Courthouse, Opotiki, on Tuesday, the 26th day of September, 1922, at 11 o'clock a.m.
    W. S. FISHER, Official Assignee. 19th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court holden at Hamilton.
    NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES HENRY COLLINS, sometime of Hinuera (near Matamata), but now of Waharoa, Share Milker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Wednesday, the 20th day of September, 1922, at 10.30 o'clock.
    W. S. FISHER, Official Assignee. 11th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.
    In the estate of ALBERT GEORGE MILLS, of Eltham, Butcher.
    NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 2s. 0½d. in the pound is now payable at my office, New Plymouth, on all proved and accepted claims.
    J. S. S. MEDLEY, Deputy Official Assignee. 14th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.
    In the estate of PERCY JAMES MARSH, of Napier, formerly of Nuhaka, Butcher.
    NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 1s. 0½d. in the pound (making in all 7s. 8½d.) is now payable at my office, Napier, on all proved and accepted claims.
    ROBERT BISHOP, Deputy Official Assignee. 14th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court holden at Wanganui.
    NOTICE is hereby given that ARTHUR JAMES HOWES, of Oruamatua, Moawhango, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at the Courthouse, Taihape, on Tuesday, the 26th day of September, 1922, at 10 o'clock a.m.
    E. M. SILK, Deputy Official Assignee. 15th September, 1922.
    In Bankruptcy.
    In the estate of WILLIAM LINTS, of Wanganui, Theatrical Producer, a bankrupt.
    NOTICE is hereby given that a first dividend of 3s. 6d. in the pound is now payable on all accepted proved claims at my office, 44 Maria Place, Wanganui.
    E. M. SILK, Deputy Official Assignee. 16th September, 1922.