JUNE 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1903

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, N.Z., 8th June, 1925.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Wellington Land District forfeited.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th June, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Wellington Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown in terms of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
TENURE: O.R.P. Lease No. 801. Section 3, Block III, Kaitieke Survey District. Area, 266 acres 2 roods. Formerly held by A. J. Scott. Reason of forfeiture : Non-compliance with conditions.
Tenure : O.R.P. Lease No. 895. Section 17, Block III. Kaitieke Survey District. Area, 87 acres 3 roods. Formerly held by A. J. Scott. Reason of forfeiture : Non-compliance with conditions.
A. D. MCLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land in Canterbury Land District forfeited.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th June, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Canterbury Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 13, Avonhead Settlement. Tenure : S.T.L.S. 263. Formerly held by G. M. Richardson. Reason for forfeiture : Holding abandoned.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Settlement Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908,

and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 29th June, 1925.
Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, 30th June, 1925; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.
The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.
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 immediately preceding date of ballot have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully, to applicants who have served beyond to 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 of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-SETTLEMENT LAND.-FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Masterton County.-Otahoua Survey District.
Te Ore Ore Settlement.
Section 6, Block II: Area, 84 acres. Capital value, £3,100; buildings, £350. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £69 15s.; £13 13s.*

• Half-yearly instalment of interest and sinking fund on buildings (dwelling with wash-house attached, trap-shed, cow-shed, pigsty), valued at £350 ; payable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £13 13s. Total half-yearly payments on lease, £83 8s.
  Situated five miles from the Masterton Dairy Factory and two miles and a half from the Te Ore Ore School. Comprises 30 acres of flat land, remainder slightly undulating. The whole area has been felled and grassed, but requires stumping. Subdivided into three paddocks. Suitable for mixed farming.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

The successful applicant will be required to execute an agreement, together with the lessees of Sections 7 and 8 of the same settlement, with the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the proper maintenance and control of the existing water-supply provided for these sections.

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.