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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

The Census and Statistics Act, 1926.—Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics.

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1928.

THE following estimated average yields per acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 1927–28 have been compiled from reports furnished by Stock Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, and are now published for general information.

In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the Dominion should be approximately 9,200,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 7,952,442 bushels for the season 1926–27.

The percentage of oats threshed for the five seasons ending with 1926–27 was 27·05 of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 3,650,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 4,997,535 bushels for the season 1926–27.

Estimated average yields of barley were furnished this year for the first time. The percentage of this crop threshed for the five seasons ending with 1926–27 was 98·16 of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 750,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 1,243,333 bushels for the season 1926–27.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician

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 thereof, and believe that such owner or any 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 2nd day of February, 1928.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, being the land containing 2 roods 29 perches, more or less, included in certificate of title, Vol. 112, folio 204, Canterbury Registry—namely, R.S. 20609, Block XIV, Ashburton Survey District, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, and being the land included in transfer No. 24875, dated the 14th July, 1885, from J. S. Bruce to C. J. H. Neate.

Surveyors licensed.

Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1928.

IT is hereby notified for general information that licenses under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, have been issued by the Surveyors’ Board to the following surveyors:—

Smith, Harold Welton, of Invercargill.
Hawcridge, John Robert Arthur, of Dunedin.
Fraser, Donald Hume, of Tuai.

M. CROMPTON SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Kaikohe, on 7th March, 1928.

Registrar’s Office,
Auckland, 6th February, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court, sitting at Kaikohe on the 7th day of March, 1928, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

E. P. EARLE, Registrar

[Tokerau, 1928/4.]

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR COMPENSATION.

No. 33. Applicant: Under-Secretary, Public Works. Name of Land: Kohewhata 69. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for railway purposes.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the Auckland District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 3rd February, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.