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ment (excluding interest), £313 15s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £130 10s.; interest and sinking fund, £23 19s. 9d.*

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £475.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment includes payment for buildings.

Distant three miles and a half from Lauriston Railway-station and post-office. All flat land, well watered, subdivided into six workable paddocks and five small paddocks around homestead. Approached by good metalled road.

Improvements.—The improvements, which are valued at £475, comprise house £150, eight-stall stable and loft £275, and sheep-yards and dip £50; which may be paid for in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £23 19s. 9d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £154 9s. 9d.

Seaforth Settlement.—Levels County.—Arowhenua Survey District.

Section 6, Block IX: Area, 53 acres 2 roods 10 perches; capital value, £1,830; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £91 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £41 3s. 6d.

Good flat agricultural land. Black soil, on clay subsoil; watered by a good spring. Access from Washdyke Railway-station by good formed road three miles.

Improvements.—The improvements not included in the capital value consist of a three-roomed dwelling, well and pump, chaff-house, cow-shed, and 49 chains subdivisional fencing, valued at £365, which may be paid for in cash, or this amount may be treated as an advance.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of 92 chains fencing; valued at £28 15s.

Sections 8 and 9, Block IX: Area, 29 acres; capital value, £1,020; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £51; half-yearly rent on lease, £22 19s.

Good flat agricultural land; black soil on clay subsoil. Access from Washdyke Railway-station by good formed road, two miles.

Improvements.—The improvements consist of wooden dwelling of two rooms, storeroom, separator-room, loose-box, cow-shed, poultry-house, pigsties, pump and piping, orchard, and 76 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £210, which may be paid for in cash, or this amount may be treated as an advance.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is 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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 18th day of December, 1922.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for a term of sixty-six years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six 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, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 19th day of December, 1922, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

SECTION 29, Block IV: Area, 173 acres 0 roods 9 perches; capital value, £1,500; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £95; half-yearly rent on lease, £33 15s.; interest and sinking fund, £15 12s.*

• Half-yearly instalment on buildings valued at £400.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment includes payment for buildings.

Situated on the Oio Valley Road, about two miles and a quarter from the Owhango Railway-station. Access by formed dray-road. Well watered by streams. Soil is of light quality, on papa formation. Altitude, from 1,440 ft. to 1,755 ft. above sea-level.

Improvements.—The improvements consist of 130 acres felled and grassed, 155 chains fencing, roads, and tracks, valued at £770; to be paid for in cash, or this amount may be treated as an advance. Also four-roomed dwelling, four-bail cow-shed, and separator, valued at £400; which may be paid for in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly payments of £15 12s. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £49 7s.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Hamilton.

NOTICE is hereby given that HARRY MURRAY RORKE, of Taupiri, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Friday, the 17th day of November, 1922, at 10 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

6th November, 1922.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Hamilton.

NOTICE is hereby given that JAMES CHARLES DATSON, of Hamilton, Accountant, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Monday, the 20th day of November, 1922, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

V. H. SANSON,
Deputy Official Assignee.

8th November, 1922.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Hamilton.

NOTICE is hereby given that HUGH ANGUS DATSON, of Hamilton, Carpenter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Monday, the 20th day of November, 1922, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

V. H. SANSON,
Deputy Official Assignee.

8th November, 1922.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that TE KATA THOMPSON, of Hawera, Native Interpreter, was this day adjudged bankrupt on creditors’ petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Hawera, on Tuesday, the 14th day of November, 1922, at 2 o’clock.

ROBERT S. SAGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

8th November, 1922.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Napier.

NOTICE is hereby given that PATRICK JOSEPH O’BRIEN, of Pakuratahi, Ranger, formerly of Porangahau, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Waipukurau, on Monday, the 20th day of November, 1922, at 11 o’clock a.m.

ROBERT BISHOP,
Deputy Official Assignee.

3rd November, 1922.

In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of JOHN GEORGE BLACKWELL, of Marton, Taxi-driver, a bankrupt.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 4s. 7½d. in the pound is now payable on all accepted proved claims at my office, No. 44 Maria Place, Wanganui.

E. M. SILK,
Deputy Official Assignee.

9th November, 1922.