JUNE 15.]

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS.

Waitomo County.—Te Kuiti Native Township.

Lot 2 of Allotment 21, Block XVII : Area, 1 rood. Capital value, £40 ; half-yearly rent, £1.

Lot 3 of Allotments 13/16, Block XXIV : Area, 1 rood 18·47 perches. Capital value, £60 ; half-yearly rent, £1 10s.

Lot 4 of Allotments 13/16, Block XXIV : Area, 1 rood 7·42 perches. Capital value, £60 ; half-yearly rent, £1 10s.

Lot 3 of Allotments 13/16 is weighted with £1 10s. for improvements, consisting of fencing.

Lot 4 of Allotments 13/16 is weighted with £2 for improvements, consisting of fencing.

These sums are payable in cash.

Lot 2 of Allotment 21 has a frontage to South Street and is situated approximately one mile from Te Kuiti Post-office and Railway-station; access is by metalled road and footpaths. Suitable as a building-site.

Lots 3 and 4 of Allotments 13/16 are situated in Edward Street, approximately half a mile from Te Kuiti Post-office and Railway-station; access is by metalled road. Each section is suitable for one good building-site.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 7/581/78 and 63 ; D.O. M.L. 4002 ; D.P. 1415 and 1416.)

Land in the Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, 12th June, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 24th July, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 26th July, 1939, 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 weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Waro Survey District.

SECTION 7, Block VII : Area, 434 acres. Capital value, £165. Deposit on deferred payments, £10 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 0s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 6s.

Weighted with £188 for improvements, comprising old dwelling, cow-byré, 140 chains fencing in disrepair, and 50 acres felled. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £28, the balance may be secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of ten years with interest at the rate ruling as at the date of selection. The mortgage fees amount to £2 15s.

This is a dairying and grazing property situated on the Tongaporutu Road, half a mile from Waitaanga Post-office, one mile from Waitaanga School, eleven miles from Ohura Post-office, and eleven miles and a half from the Ohura Saleyards. Cream lorry passes the property. Access is from Ohura by metalled road. The soil is light loam on clay papa and sandstone formation; watered by springs and streams. The area is flat easy hills to fairly steep and broken. Ragwort is becoming troublesome.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/886 ; D.O. R.L. 299.)

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 13th June, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 24th July, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 26th July, 1939, 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.

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 weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.)

SECTIONS 3 and 9, Block IX : Area, 979 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £250 ; half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £336 for improvements, comprising dwelling of ten rooms, dwelling of four rooms, wool-shed, cow-byré, shed, yards and dip, fencing, roads and tracks, plantations, felling, burning, and sowing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £26, the balance may be secured by mortgage over a period of thirty-six years and a half with interest at the rate of 4½ per cent. Half-yearly instalments consisting of principal and interest amount to £8 19s. 10d.

This property is situated on the Raetihi-Ohura Road, fourteen miles from the Raetihi Post-office, Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and Saleyards, and five miles from Ruatiti School, access being by metalled road from Raetihi. The soil is of poor to medium quality resting on sandstone, papa, and rock formation, and the land is watered by streams and springs. At present 150 acres are in good to medium pasture, 120 acres in poor pasture, 509 acres have reverted to fern and scrub, and 200 acres are in the natural state. The property is free from rabbits, but has some foxglove and ragwort.

The western portion of section 3 is steep and broken, the balance consisting of easy hills with some good flats and terraces. This section is subdivided into six paddocks and is suitable for grazing and a small dairy herd.

Section 9 is mostly medium to steep broken country with some easy to flat areas along the Ohura Road and on the southern end on Makino Road. The Ruatiti and Makino Streams form gorges, which make it difficult to handle stock. This section is subdivided into four paddocks and is suitable for grazing only. A good energetic worker could make these sections produce quite satisfactory returns.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. XI/4/75 ; D.O. O.R.P. 981 and 979.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES REGINALD FRANCIS, of 31 Great South Road, Auckland, Engineer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland, on Thursday, the 22nd day of June, 1939, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 12th day of June, 1939.

A. W. WATTERS, Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWIN LEGG, of Kaingaroa, Forestry Worker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Tuesday, the 13th day of June, 1939, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 6th day of June, 1939.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.