Nov. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2441

furnaces, engines, and smelting-houses, and other requisite
buildings, and to make and lay down and continue any railway
and to make drains, sluices, and cuts, and to do every other
act necessary or expedient for raising and carrying away
all such coal, metals, minerals, stone, gravel, scoria, sand,
and clay, doing as little injury as may be to the soil of the
said premises, and making in the absolute discretion of the
Board either reasonable compensation for the disturbance
of the surface soil or abatement of the rent to an amount
bearing the same proportion to the total rent hereby reserved
as the rental value of the area of the land disturbed bears
to the rental value of the whole area of land hereby demised.
(2) Lessees shall have no claim for compensation or other-
wise against the lessor, or any other person or persons or body
corporate whomsoever or whatsoever, for any loss which
lessees may sustain on account of mining operations carried
on below the surface of the demised land or lands adjoining.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the day of sale.
2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered and rent for the
   broken period, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), and
   weighting for improvements must be deposited on the fall of
   the hammer.
3. Term of lease—twenty-one years, with perpetual right
   of renewal for further, similar terms at rents on fresh
   valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases
   Act, 1908.
4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all build-
   ings, drains and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains,
   ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges, and yield
   up all improvements in good repair and condition at the
   expiration of the lease.
6. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive
   trade upon the land.
7. Lessee not to transfer, mortgage, sublet, or subdivide
   without consent of the Land Board.
8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without consent
   of the Land Board.
9. No liability is accepted on the part of the Crown or of
   the Land Board to pay to the lessee any compensation for
   improvements, but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration,
   or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered for disposal
   by public competition will be subject to payment by the
   incoming tenant of an amount equal to the value of buildings
   and improvements effected by the original lessee, and the
   amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid to the
   original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other
   payments in arrear.
10. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
11. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be
    paid on rent in arrear.
12. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.

Form of lease and any further particulars required may be
obtained from the undersigned.

THOS. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 20/444; D.O. 14/42.)

Pastoral Run in Nelson Land District for License by Public Auction.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st November, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral
run will be offered for license in terms of Part VI of
the Land Act, 1924, at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 12th January, 1939.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Amuri County.—Motupiko, Rotoiti, Rainbow, Wairau, and Arnaud Survey Districts.

PASTORAL RUN No. 60 (Rainbow): Area, 76,200 acres ap-
proximately. Upset annual rental, £110.

Weighted with £200 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising dwelling, stable, and fencing.

Term of License: Twenty-one years from 1st March, 1939.

The Rainbow Run is situated in the Wairau and Rainbow
Valleys, about six miles from Tophouse. Access is by the
main highway for four miles, thence two miles unformed
dray road.

The run is suitable for sheep grazing.

Sale posters (Nelson No. 319) giving details of the run and
detailed terms and conditions of leasing are available from
the undersigned or from the Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Nelson.

W. ROBERTSON,
Under-Secretary for Lands.

(L. & S. 8/5/17.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that HENRY MATTHEW WALLER,
of Thornton, near Whakatane, Sharemilker, was this
day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting
of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Whakatane, on
Wednesday, the 30th day of November, 1938, at 10 o’clock
a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 16th day of November, 1938.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that RONALD WATSON, of Port
Ahuriri, Fisherman, was this day adjudged bankrupt;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at
my office on Tuesday, the 29th day of November, 1938,
at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Napier, this 16th day of November, 1938.

P. MARTIN,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that NORMAN CHARLES BOURN,
of Wanganui, Salesman, was this day adjudged
bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to
be held at my office on Wednesday, the 30th day of
November, 1938, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Wanganui, this 17th day of November, 1938.

B. M. SILK,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of HUGH HENRY ANDREW, Contractor,
Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that a fourth and final dividend
of 1s. 11d. in the pound is now payable at my office,
Waldegrave Buildings, Palmerston North, on all proved and
accepted claims in the above estate.

Dated at Palmerston North, this 18th day of November,
1938.

F. C. LITCHFIELD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of HARRY CHARLES PUCKEY, Pork Butcher,
Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend
of 9s. 4d. in the pound is now payable at my office,
Waldegrave Buildings, Palmerston North, on all proved
and accepted claims in the above estate.

Dated at Palmerston North, this 21st day of November,
1938.

F. C. LITCHFIELD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ALBERT ARTHUR PARKIN,
the elder, FRANCIS PARKIN, ALBERT ARTHUR PARKIN,
the younger, and CLIFFORD PARKIN, 301 St. Asaph Street,
Christchurch, Wood-merchants, were this day adjudged
bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors
to be held at the Old Provincial Building, Durham Street,
Christchurch, on Monday, the 28th day of November, 1938,
at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Christchurch, this 16th day of November, 1938.

G. W. BROWN,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Timaru.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM HENRY WILSON,
of Timaru, Carpenter, was this day adjudged bankrupt;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at
my office on Tuesday, the 29th day of November, 1938, at
2.15 o’clock p.m.

W. HARTE,
Official Assignee.

18th November, 1938.