April 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 773

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, 11th April, 1932. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands for Sale or Selection.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th April, 1932.

THE undermentioned lands will be offered for sale or selection on the dates specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Allotment 58, Mangatete Parish.
Section 18, Block VII, Opoe Survey District.
Allotment 1, Kohumaru Parish.
Section 17, Block VIII, Kerikeri Survey District.
Sections 22, 25, and 27, Block VIII, Rangaunu Survey District.
Allotments 252, 253, and 254, Mangawai Parish.
Sections 1, 3, 4, and 7, Block VI, Purua Survey District.
Twelve sections, shown on sale plan 171.

Applications close at 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th May, 1932, at the North Auckland District Lands Office, Auckland.
(L. and S. 9/2763.)

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Sections 5 and 6, Block IX, Ongarue Survey District.
Section 3, Block III, Wharepapa Survey District.
Section 1, Block IV, Wharepapa Survey District.
Section 12, Block VIII, Hapuakohe Survey District.
Section 3, Block VII, Piako Survey District.
Lot 1 of Section 12A, Block X, Cambridge Survey District. (Whitehall Settlement.)
Seven sections, shown on sale plan 1535.

Applications close at 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 20th May, 1932, at the District Lands Office, Auckland.
(L. and S. 9/2756 and 2770.)

Part Section 10, Block VIII, Maramarua Survey District.
Section 16, Block VII, Piako Survey District.
Section 13, Block X, Ohinemuri Survey District.
Section 1, Block XVI, Whakamaru Survey District.
Part Section 5, Block XV, Coromandel Survey District.
Six sections shown on sale plan 1536.

Applications close at 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 20th May, 1932, at the District Lands Office, Auckland.
(L. and S. 9/2756 and 2770.)

Sale plan and further particulars may be obtained from the respective Commissioners of Crown Lands.

W. ROBERTSON,
Under-Secretary for Lands.

Settlement Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 11th April, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 20th May, 1932.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 24th May, 1932, at 10 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waikato County.—Mangakura Settlement.

SECTIONS 5s and 10s: Area, 214 acres 1 rood 38 perches. Capital value, £2,285. Half-yearly rent, £57 2s. 6d.

Weighted with £86, for improvements consisting of a wooden hut; separator and engine rooms; 20 chains four-wire boundary fence; 15 chains subdivisional fence; 10 acres rushed and heaped. This sum is payable in cash.

Dairying property, situated on the Waerenga-Maramarua Road, fourteen miles and a half from the Te Kauwhata Railway-station by a metalled road for thirteen miles and a half, balance formed clay road; sixteen miles and a half from Rangiriri Saleyards, and three miles from Okaerea School; two miles from rural-delivery box. Cream collected at gate.

Section comprises about 135 acres of level land, portions of which are liable to occasional slight flooding, and 79¼ acres undulating to hilly. The whole area is ploughable.

The soil is part alluvial and part clay resting on clay formation. Well watered by running streams and springs.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of 181 acres broken from natural state and grassed; 42 chains road boundary fencing; half-share 20 chains boundary fencing; 26 chains boundary fencing; 40 chains subdivisional fencing; ditches and drains and consolidation by drains: total value, £1,132.

Special condition: Selector to cut and burn all blackberry between January and April annually, and also to maintain sufficient drainage through and from the section. All main channels and other drains to be cleaned out at least once each year.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM.
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/751.)