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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

3. Tenders for lease must be accompanied by six months’ rent, lease fee (£4 4s.), an amount sufficient to cover stamp duty and registration fee.

NOTE.—Stamp duty will be 6s. 6d. if rent is under £50 per annum, with an additional 3s. 6d. for each further £50 or fraction thereof; registration fee is uniformly 10s.

4. The highest tenderer to be declared the lessee, but the Board reserves to itself the right to decline to accept any tender.

5. The successful lessee will require to make a declaration to the effect that he is legally qualified to become the lessee of the land, and that he is acquiring the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person.

6. The lands are offered under the Native Land Act, 1931, and the regulations made thereunder, and lessee shall be deemed to be acquainted with the provisions thereof, and be bound thereby as effectually as if such provisions were embodied therein.

Instructions to Applicants.

The land is described for the general information of intending tenderers, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make personal inspection, as the Board is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Area may be liable to slight alteration.

Tenders must be sent to the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, and must be made on the proper forms, to be obtained at the office of the Board.

Full particulars may be obtained at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland.

C. E. MacCORMICK, President,
Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends in respect of the undermentioned estates have been declared on all proved and accepted claims:—

Brasting, Harold Peter, Painter, Te Aroha—Second dividend of 5d. in the pound.

Cullen, Henry William, Builder, Tauranga—First and final dividend of 6s. 8d. in the pound.

Smith, Edward Andrew Twamley, Mill Worker, Taringamotu, Taumarunui—Supplementary dividend of 6d. in the pound.

Speers, Robert James, Contractor, Taumarunui—First and final dividend of 3s. 6d. in the pound.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

Government Buildings, Knox Street, Hamilton, 10th June, 1940.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, helden at Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sitting of the said Court, to be held on Monday, the 15th day of July, 1940, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Andrew, Hugh Henry, Palmerston North, Contractor.

Bennett, Edward Hylton Freeman Derek, Palmerston North, Florist.

Bowyer, Alfred Horace, Feilding, Engineer.

Easton, Thomas, Levin, Labourer.

Halford, Percy Herbert, Waituna, Farmer.

Holmes, William, Palmerston North, Printer.

Lunn, Arthur Clifford, and Henley, John Joseph, trading as Lunn and Henley, Levin, Electricians.

Vallance, George Nicholas, Feilding, Labourer.

Walters, Ernest Westley, Palmerston North, Butcher.

Dated at Palmerston North, this 5th day of June, 1940.

F. C. LITCHFIELD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that DOUGLAS GORDON GRANT, of Napier, Fruiterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 14th day of June, 1940, at 2.15 o’clock p.m.

Dated at Napier, this 5th day of June, 1940.

W. HARTE,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN LEWIS BROOKS, of Waiuta, Blacksmith, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 12th day of June, 1940, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

Dated at Greymouth, this 5th day of June, 1940.

F. BIRD,
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:—

Isaac, Abraham Tobia, of Pine Hill, Draper—First and final dividend of 1s. 6½d. in the pound.

Collett, William, of Dunedin, Salesman—Supplementary dividend of ⅔d. in the pound.

Sutherland, William, late of Kaka Point, Retired Farmer, deceased—Interest on claims at 6 per centum per annum.

J. M. ADAM,
Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 7th June, 1940.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

APPLICATION having been made to me by SAMUEL STRONGMAN, the younger, as grantor, to register an extinguishment of certain quarrying rights created by Deed of Lease No. 396659, affecting Lots 2 and 3 on Deposited Plan 23541, being parts of the Torehina Block, situated in Block VIII of the Harataunga Survey District, and being the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 632, folio 64 (Auckland Registry), of which COROMANDEL STONE AND LIME QUARRIES, LIMITED, is the grantee, notice is hereby given of my intention to register such extinguishment upon the expiration of one calendar month from the 13th day of June, 1940, unless good cause to the contrary is shown.

Dated at the Land Registry Office at Auckland, this 7th day of June, 1940.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 44, folio 251 (Gisborne Registry), for all that parcel of land, situated in the Borough of Gisborne, containing 1 acre and 8 perches, more or less, being Lot 15, Block VIII on Deposited Plan 1513, being part of Whataupoko No. 3 Block, whereof HERBERT WILLIAM HARRISON INGRAM, of Gisborne, Engine-driver, is the registered proprietor, having been lodged with me, together with an application by LEONARD THOMAS BURNARD, as mortgagee in possession of the said land under Memorandum of Mortgage No. 18404, for the issue of a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such new certificate of title accordingly upon the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated at the Land Registry Office, Gisborne, this 7th day of June, 1940.

E. S. MOLONY, District Land Registrar.