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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Situated about seven miles from Mataura by formed road,
unmetalled for last three miles. Undulating land lying well
to the sun. Fair pastoral country.
The improvements included in the capital value consist of
288 chains of boundary fencing, valued at £59 13s.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, thirty-three years, with a perpetual
   right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three
   years and a right to acquire the freehold.

2. Rent, 4½ per cent. per annum on the capital value, pay-
   able in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory de-
   claration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s.
   (lease fee) and a half-year’s rent. Rent for the broken
   period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July
   following is also payable.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
   simultaneous.

6. Preference at the ballot will be given to landless
   applicants who have one or more children dependent on
   them; to landless applicants who within two years immedi-
   ately preceding date of ballot have applied for land at least
   twice unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond
   New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force; and
   to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand
   in connection with the late war, if such persons immediately
   prior to the war were bona fide residents in New Zealand.

7. No person may hold more than one allotment.

8. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
   after being notified that it is ready for signature.

9. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all
   rates, taxes, and assessments.

10. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the
    land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price;
    within two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the
    price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of
    another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the fore-
    going, and within six years, improvements are also to be
    effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land,
    10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every
    acre of third-class land.

11. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.

12. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time
    within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed
    for area taken for such roads.

13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

R. S. GALBRAITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Lands in North Auckland Land District for Sale
by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 23rd April, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands
will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash
or on deferred payments, at the North Auckland District
Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 12th
June, 1923, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of
the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and the Land Act, 1908,
and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Eden County.—Prescott Settlement.

These sections front the main road opposite Penrose
Railway-station. All sections are covered with volcanic rock
and lava, and would make excellent building-sites when
levelled.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

R. P. GREVILLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that DOUGLAS LEES, of
52 Valley Road, Mount Eden, was this day adjudged
bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors
to be held at my office on Monday, the 7th day of May,
1923, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

17th April, 1923.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN ALDERS KEAN,
trading as “J. A. Kean and Co.,” of 221 Great
North Road, Motor Engineer, was this day adjudged
bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors
to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 2nd day of
May, 1923, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

18th April, 1923.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that R. FEWELL, care of
Farmers’ Trading Company (Saddlery Department),
Hobson Street, Auckland, Salesman, was this day adjudged
bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to
be held at my office on Wednesday, the 9th day of May,
1923, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

20th April, 1923.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ALBERT THEODORE MERRY-
FULL, of Henry Street, Avondale, Auckland, Grocer,
was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a
meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday,
the 4th day of May, 1923, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

21st April, 1923.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE GRAHAM, of
Hinuera, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held
at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Monday, the 30th day of
April, 1923, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

14th April, 1923.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN BOYD, of Pukemiro,
Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I
hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the
Courthouse, Rotorua, on Friday, the 27th day of April,
1923, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

17th April, 1923.