APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 739

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, 6th April, 1936. E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Otira on the 29th April, 1936.

Registrar’s Office, Auckland, 28th March, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Otira on the 29th April, 1936, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Tokerau, 1936-3.] J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

CROWN LAND NOTICE.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th April, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, 28th April, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 30th April, 1936, at 10.30 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.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kawhia County.—Kawhia South Survey District.

Exemption from rental payments and mortgage interest payments for five years.*)

SECTION 4, Block III : Area, 588 acres 3 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £200 ; half-yearly rent, £4.

Weighted with £390 for improvements, consisting of whare, milking-shed, clearing and grassing, road-boundary fencing, subdivisional fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a deposit of £35, the balance of £355 to remain on instalment mortgage to the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy payable over a period of fifteen years (interest rate 5 per cent.) by means of instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £16 19s. 4d. each half-year.

A grazing property, situated on Toi Road, ten miles from Hanturu Post-office, fifteen miles from Oparau Dairy Factory, and thirty-nine miles from Otorohanga Railway-station. Access by metalled road seven miles, formed clay road two miles, and three miles of foot-track. Land hilly and broken, approximately 130 acres felled and grassed, 30 acres cleared (now reverted to farm), balance in natural state of standing bush. Ragwort requires attention.

• No rent will be charged for five years after payment of the first half-year’s rent, and no interest under the mortgage will be charged for five years, provided a sum equivalent to the concessions granted is expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

For any further details required apply to the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Files : H.O. 22/3454 ; D.O. M.L. 3753.)