SEPT. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2159

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Elections to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth, the gross property in each case being estimated not to exceed £400 in value.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, N.Z., 8th September, 1924. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Tokomaru Bay on 1st October, 1924.

Registrar's Office,
Gisborne, 6th September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Tokomaru Bay on the 1st day of October, 1924, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Gisborne, 1924-22.] JNO. HARVEY, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS.

No. 47. Applicant: Waiapu County Council. Name of Block: Parts Waipiro 4A and 4E, Akuaku West 4B. Nature of application: For assessment of compensation for land taken for a public road.

No. 48. Applicant: Waiapu County Council. Name of Block: Parts Tokomaru B 6C, B 6D 1, and B 6D 2. Nature of application: For assessment of compensation for land taken for a public road.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Hawke's Bay Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: Renewable lease. Section 2, Block XIII, Porangahau Survey District. Area, 567 acres 3 roods. Formerly held by: Reginald Evans Bennett. Reason for forfeiture: At request of lessee.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 5th September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale for cash by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Wednesday, 15th October, 1924, at 11 o'clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 60, Block VIII, Heretaunga Survey District. (Suburbs of Meeanee): Area, 1 rood 36 perches; upset price, £47 10s.

This is a section lying between the old bed of the Tutaekuri River and the Awatoto-Meeanee Road, and situated about 40 chains from Meeanee.

Terms of Sale.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.—Auckland Forest-conservation Region.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 8th September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Auckland, at 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 29th September, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

ALL the milling-timber branded X, situated on Sections 1 and 2, Block VII, Waipoua Survey District (part Provisional State Forest No. 85), and estimated in superficial feet as follows:—

273 green and dead standing kauri-trees and windfalls, estimated to contain .. 705,773 sup. ft.
36 kahikatea-trees, estimated to contain .. 40,397 "

309 trees, estimated to contain .. 746,170 "

Ground rent: £2 10s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber: Two years.

TERMS OF PAYMENT.

Tenderers are required to state the price per 100 superficial feet they are prepared to pay for each species, and a marked