Aug. 4. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Lands for Sale or Lease.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1932.

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

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
(Town lands for sale for cash.)
SECTIONS 1-17, Waikokowai Village.

(For sale for cash or on deferred payments.)
Section 6. Block XIII, Rangiriri Survey District.

The sale will be held at the Lyceum Theatre, Huntly, at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, 17th September, 1932.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
(For selection on optional tenures.)
Section 26. Block IX, Totoro Survey District.
(For selection on renewable lease.)
Sections 18, 19, 20. Block XIII, Ohura Survey District.
Section 1. Block XIV, Mahoe Survey District.
Section 12, Block I, Pouatu Survey District.
Section 10, Block V, Totoro Survey District.
Sections 11, 25. Block VII, Waro Survey District.
Section 11, Block VIII, Waro Survey District.
Section 5, Block X, Mapara Survey District.
Section 10, Block XI, Mapara Survey District.
Section 10, Block VII, Mapara Survey District.
Section 6, Block III, Rangi Survey District.
Section 10, Block I, Piopiotea West Survey District.
Section 3, Block III. Rangi Survey District.

Applications close at 4 p.m. on Monday, 26th September, 1932, at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth.

Sale plans and further particulars may be obtained on application to the respective Commissioners of Crown Lands.

W. ROBERTSON, Under-Secretary.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, Ist August, 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, 26th August, 1932.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 30th August, 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.
Otorohanga County.-Pukemapou Settlement.
SECTION 10s : Area, 154 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £635. Half-yearly rent, £15 17s. 6d.

Weighted with £290, for improvements consisting of dwelling (four rooms), cow-byrne and implement-shed combined, 120 chains subdivisional fencing, and 20 chains roading. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £20, and the balance (£270) over a period of fifteen years by instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £13 0s. 2d. a half-year.

The following improvements have been included in the capital value : 62 acres cleared and grassed, 25 chains road boundary fencing, half-share 130 chains boundary fencing, 20 chains draining : total value, £182 10s.

Dairying and grazing property situated on the Te Awamutu-Ngahape Road, three miles from Ngahape School, eleven miles from Otorohanga Post-office, Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and Saleyards by a metalled road. Undulating to hilly section, of which approximately 62 acres is in worn-out pasture, 2 acres swamp, and about 90½ acres in natural state—fern, manuka, and tutu.

The soil is a light to medium loam resting on clay and sandstone formation. Well watered by springs and small streams. Ragwort and rabbits in evidence.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,
(L. and S. 26/21808.) Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of J. A. McLEOD, of Whangarei, Settler.
NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 2¼d. in the pound is now payable at my office on all proved and accepted claims.

A. L. TRESIDDER,
Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Whangarei, 25th July, 1932.

In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of Bob RUSSELL, Kaiangaroa, Labourer.
NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 5¾d. in the pound is now payable at my office on all proved and accepted claims.

A. L. TRESIDDER,
Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Whangarei, 27th July, 1932.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that LAWRENCE WILLIAM PICKETT, of 67 Prospect Terrace, Mount Eden, Service-car Proprietor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, on Friday, the 5th day of August, 1932, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. Dated at Auckland, this 27th day of July, 1932.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
NOTICE is hereby given that ALFRED W. BRYANT, Contractor, of 39 Shelly Beach Road, Ponsonby, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 9th day of August, 1932, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. Dated at Auckland, this 28th day of July, 1932.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court holden at Hamilton.
NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court, and I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the said Court to be holden on Tuesday, the 23rd day of August, 1932, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates:—
Petersen, C., Piopio, Farmer.
Serance, Tohe, Te Kuiti, Aboriginal Native.
Smith, Archibald, Walton, Farmer.
Wackrow, Alan, Taumarunui, Confectioner.
Winger, J. A. N. and G. L. (trading as Winger and Co.), Taumarunui, Garage Proprietors.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.
Auckland, 2nd August, 1932.