Jan. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 119

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th January, 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, 11th February, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 12th February, 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.

NOTE.—This land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Thames County.—Tairua Survey District.—Hauraki Mining District.

(Exempt from rental payments for three years.*)

SECTION 3, Block XIII: Area, 994 acres. Capital value, £250; half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £107 10s. for improvements, consisting of whare, clearing and grassing, road-boundary fencing, subdivisional fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £7 10s., and the balance of £100 over a period of five years by means of ten half-yearly instalments of £11 11s. each.

A grazing property, situated on Omahu Road, six miles from Omahu Post-office, eight miles from Hikutaiā Railway-station and Dairy Factory. Access is by the Omahu Track from the junction of the Thames-Paeroa Road. Located on the eastern slopes of the Coromandel Range, the land is hilly to broken in places. Approximately 60 acres cleared and grassed, in fair condition, 300 acres felled (now reverted), balance in natural state. Would prove suitable as a run-off area for a Hauraki Plains settler. Ragwort and blackberry require attention.

• No rent will be charged for three years after payment of the first half-year’s rent provided a sum equivalent to the concession 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.

(L. and S. 22/1450/293.)

Town Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 20th January, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Christchurch, at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 26th February, 1936, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

Waimairi County.—Christchurch Survey District.

RESERVE 4123: Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £150.
Reserve 4127: Area, 1 rood 15·5 perches. Upset price, £150.
Reserve 4178: Area, 1 rood 16·4 perches. Upset price, £80.
Lot 6, Reserve 4196: Area, 32·2 perches. Loading for fencing, £5. Upset price, £205.
Lot 7, Reserve 4196: Area, 32·4 perches. Upset price, £200.
Lot 8, Reserve 4196: Area, 32·8 perches. Upset price, £200.
Lot 9, Reserve 4196: Area, 32·2 perches. Loading for fencing, £10. Upset price, £210.

These areas comprise some of the best and most desirable building-sites in Christchurch. They are all within easy walking distance of the Fendalton tram service and within a radius of approximately half a mile of the Fendalton School. Electric power and sewerage are available to all sections.

Reserve 4123: This section has an extra wide frontage and has a good shelter-belt of trees on the eastern boundary, approximately ten minutes’ walk from Fendalton tram service. Frontage is to Hamilton Street.

Reserve 4127: This is a good building section with a chain frontage to Chilcomb Street and within ten minutes’ walk of the Fendalton tram terminus.

Reserve 4178: This section has a frontage of slightly over a chain to Malton Avenue. It has a rather deep depression running through it, but has a decided future value if filled in. At the price asked it offers a splendid opportunity for any one prepared to spend a certain amount in levelling.

Reserve 4196 has frontage to Creyke Road and the various lots offered are all splendid sections, ideal in situation, and approximately five minutes’ walk from the tram.

Special Note.—The sections are offered for sale as they stand and no liability for fencing remains with the Crown.

Conditions of Sale.

Cash.—One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown grant fee, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited and the sale of the land declared null and void.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

J. F. QUINN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 6/1/438.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Revocation of Notice advertising Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 20th January, 1936.

THE notice published in Gazette No. 2 of the 16th January, 1936, at page 93, advertising milling-timber on Lot 2, containing 109 acres 2 roods, being portion of Provisional State Forest No. 91, Block II, Pouatu Survey District, Taranaki Land District, for sale by public tender, is hereby revoked.

D. MACPHERSON,
Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that LILLIAN MAY HARRIS, of New Plymouth, Restaurant-proprietress, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 22nd day of January, 1936, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 14th day of January, 1936.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of DAVID BEGGS, of Bell Block, Farmer.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound is now payable on all proved and accepted claims at my office, Devon Street, New Plymouth.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
Deputy Official Assignee.

New Plymouth, 18th January, 1936.