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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 6th April, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, 10th May, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 12th May, 1938, at 10.30 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.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined, documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

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.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Sounds County.—Gore Survey District.—Marlborough Mining District.

PARTS Sections 40 and 41, Block XI: Area, 524 acres. Capital value, £200; half-yearly rent, £4.

Weighted with £400 for improvements, consisting of cottage, store-shed, shearing-shed, yards, dip, boundary and internal fencing, felling and grassing. This amount is payable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £20, and the balance of £380 over a period of thirty-four years and a half with interest at 5½ per cent. Instalments, comprising principal and interest combined, payable half-yearly.

This property is situated in Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and is of poor quality. The whole area has been felled and grassed; this has, however, reverted considerably to fern and second-growth. The configuration is hilly to steep, rocky hill-tops. In its present condition it will carry about two hundred sheep, but is capable of considerable improvement.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/14110; D.O. L.P. 170.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WARAKIHI WALAFU and WAKAROA WALAFU, carrying on business as farmers under the name of Walafu Brothers, of Omarumutu, were this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Opotiki, on Wednesday, the 13th day of April, 1938, at 2 o'clock p.m.
Dated at Auckland, this 1st day of April, 1938.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that RUSSELL VINCENT CLARKE, of Taupiri, Farm Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 11th day of April, 1938, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.
Dated at Hamilton, this 30th day of March, 1938.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that LESLIE JONES, of Hamilton, Carpenter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 11th day of April, 1938, at 11.30 o'clock a.m.
Dated at Hamilton, this 4th day of April, 1938.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that SAMUEL JOHN MARSHALL EWART, of Taihape, Electrical Engineer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Thursday, the 14th day of April, 1938, at 10 o'clock a.m.
Dated at Taihape, this 31st day of March, 1938.

S. PERCY,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that DERALD GEORGE HADDOCK, of Rangataua, Milhand, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Ohakune, on Wednesday, the 13th day of April, 1938, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.
Dated at Taihape, this 4th day of April, 1938.

S. PERCY,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that NEIL EDWARD CUMMERFIELD, of Foxton, Plumber, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 13th day of April, 1938, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.
Dated at Palmerston North, this 5th day of April, 1938.

F. C. LITCHFIELD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of FRANCIS JOSEPH BANHAM, of Brightwater, Farmer.

NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 1s. 6d. in the pound is now payable at my office, Government Buildings, Nelson, on all accepted proved claims.
Dated at Nelson, this 30th day of March, 1938.

A. L. TRESIDDER,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims; Promissory notes (if any) must be produced for endorsement prior to the receipt of dividend:—

Assigned Estate of James Glenny Boyle, of Christchurch, Contractor—First dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound.
Boyle Brothers, Limited (in Liquidation)—First dividend of 2s. in the pound.
Gray, Thomas Osborn, of Lyndhurst, Builder—First and final dividend of 11½d. in the pound.
Cooper, Leonard Haig, of Wakefield Avenue, Sumner, Grocer—Second dividend of 1s. 8d. in the pound making a total of 6s. 8d. in the pound to date.

G. W. BROWN,
Official Assignee.

Christchurch, 1st April, 1938.