Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3503

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election 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, 21st December, 1925. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Result of Election of Trustees of Drainage Districts.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th December, 1925.

THE following results of election of trustees of drainage districts have been received from the Returning Officers, and are published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Assistant Under-Secretary.

Sluggish River Drainage District, County of Manawatu—
James Ferguson,
Hedley Wilton,
Robert Murphy,
Edward Charles Print,
Francis James Foster.

Makerua Drainage District, Counties of Horowhenua and Kairanga—
Hugh Akers,
Norman Barnes Gibbons,
Harold John Taylor Hume,
Joseph Liggins,
Joseph Huia Palmerston Liggins,
Alfred Seifert,
Reginald Louis Tippler.

Waiatarua Drainage District, County of Eden—
Robert Henry Abbott,
George Anson Thompson,
Charles Harold Abbott,
Ralph Thomas Michaels,
Stanley George Chambers.

Wainono Drainage District, County of Waimate—
John Francis Fox,
Walter Hayman,
Peter Hunter,
Harry Bell S. Johnstone,
John Henry Mitchell.

Situated three miles and a half from Niagara Post-office. Originally all bush, 20 acres of which have been burned and sown in grass. All hilly land; one third of it lying to the sun.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

2. The lease shall be for a term of twenty-one years.

3. The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

4. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

5. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweet-brier on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

7. One half-year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, to be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

8. The lessor hereby excepts and reserves unto the lessor, his successors and assigns, all minerals and quarries of stone with full liberty for the lessor, his successors, assigns, and licensees, and his and their workmen, servants, and agents, at his and their free will and pleasure, to search for, dig, work, and carry away the minerals and stone; and, for the better working the said minerals and quarries of stone, to erect furnaces, engines, and other requisite buildings, and to make, lay down, and continue any railway and to make drains, sluices, cuts, and to do every other act necessary or expedient for raising and carrying away all such minerals and stone and gravel, and doing as little injury as may be to the soil of the said premises.

Full particulars may be ascertained on application to this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in the Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 21st December, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for lease by public auction for a term of twenty-one years at this office on Thursday, the 28th January, 1926, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of section 152 of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 36 and 36A, Block I, Waikawa Survey District: Area, 101 acres 1 rood 2 perches. Upset annual rental, £5.

Reserve in North Auckland Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 18th December, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 26th February, 1926, for a lease, for grazing purposes only, of the undermentioned reserve, under the provisions of the Public Reserve and Domains Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Lot 80, Kamo Village. Area, 2 acres 0 roods 35 perches, more or less; minimum annual rental, £5. Section is ring-fenced, and land level to easy undulating, all in grass.