Nov. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2743

MINISTER’S DECISIONS UNDER CUSTOMS ACTS—continued.

Minister’s Order No. 30.] · GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 11th November, 1924. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, Matakohe Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Paparoa, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :—

A. R. P.
1 0 18 Being Portion of Allotment No. N.W. 45; coloured red.
0 1 25 ,, 45 ,,
0 0 38·6 ,, 45 ,,
0 1 15·4 ,, 45 ,,
0 1 1·8 S.E. 45 and part 46; coloured blue.

Situated in Parish of Paparoa, Block XI, Matakohe Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22779.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 60915 (sheet 2), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District. and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of November, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II, Unclaimed Lands.

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained the whereabouts of the owner and believe that such owner or an agent of such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908; the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than £500.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of November, 1924.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land, situated in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 2·72 perches, more or less, being Second Extension of the Township of Rothesay, being Part of Allotment 8, Block I, on the said Extension, deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as No. 28 (Part Suburban Section 56, Block X, North Harbour and Blueskin District), and being the balance of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 67, folio 9, Otago Land Registry; the registered owner being George Goodlet, of Rothesay, Engineer.