JAN. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 437

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.--Election to Administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect
of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known)
are hereunder set forth:--

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 26th January, 1942.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Pastoral Land in Southland Land District for License.

Department of Lands and Survey,

Invercargill, 28th January, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral
land is open for selection under Part VI of the Land
Act, 1924, and applications will be received up to 4 o'clock
p.m. on Tuesday, 24th February, 1942.

Applicants are required to appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill,
on Wednesday, 25th February, at 10.30 o'clock a.m., but if
any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by
the Land Board of any other District or by any Commissioner
of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence
of their farming experience and financial position. The
ballot will be held at the conclusion of examination of the
applicants, and the successful applicant is required to
pay immediately at the conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, license fee, and amount of
weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Runs 391, 190B, 190C, 190D, 190E, and 302B, Lincoln,
Black Hill, and Eyre Survey Districts : Area, 61,585 acres.
Annual rental, £200.

Weighted with £2,104 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising cottage, stable, wool-shed, dip, and yards, huts,
fencing, and plantation.

The runs are situated about three miles from Mossburn
Railway-station, School, and Post-office, and access is by
easy formed road metalled for the most part. They form
the Crown portion of what is known as "West Dome Station."
Altitude runs from 1,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. above sea-level. At
the southern portion of the runs, nearest Mossburn, where
the old homestead is situated, lies approximately 1,200 acres
of flat land which, although of light quality, offers prospects
of development in the way of growing winter feed. The
carrying capacity of West Dome of late years has been in the
vicinity of eight thousand sheep, which includes about half
the number of ewes.

Conditions.

1. Date of possession: 1st March, 1942.

2. Term of license: Twenty-one years from 1st March,
   1942, with contingent right of renewal over the whole run or,
   if subdivided, over one subdivision.

3. One-half year's rent, license fee (£1 ls.), amount for
   weighting for improvements, and statutory declaration to
   be lodged by the successful applicant immediately his
   application is declared successful. Rent commences from
   date of possession, and is payable half yearly in advance.

4. Applicants must not be less than twenty-one years of age.

5. Personal residence to commence within one year and to
   be continuous thereafter.

6. No person may hold more than one pastoral run except
   on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the
   approval of the Minister of Lands. If a husband holds a
   run his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.

7. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber,
   burning of snow tussock, burning of other tussock, except
   in July, August, and September ; to prevent growth and
   spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or
   plants; to keep down rabbits; and to refrain from burning
   grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown
   Lands shall from time to time determine.

8. To ensure that the winter carrying capacity is maintained and that the soil fertility and plant cover are not
   injuriously affected the licensee shall exercise due care in
   the stocking of the land and shall not overstock. For the
   purposes of this condition a reasonable winter stock carrying
   capacity is considered to be 6,500 sheep on the basis of a
   count of one for dry sheep and one and a half for breeding-
   ewes, and the licensee shall not during the winter months
   depasture more than this number of sheep on the runs
   without the prior consent of the Land Board.

9. The shelter-belts on the run not to be cut without the
   prior consent of the Land Board, which may be given subject
   to such conditions, including the payment of royalties and
   the planting of new trees, as the Board thinks fit.

10. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

THOS. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 8/10/34; D.O. P.R.L. 425.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,

Palmerston North, 26th January, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the
sale of the undermentioned milling-timber will close
at the office of the State Forest Service, Palmerston North,
at 3 o'clock on Friday, the 13th day of February, 1942.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON CONSERVANCY.-WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

All the following milling-timber on that piece of land
containing approximately 217 acres in Block VI, Miki Miki
Survey District, being Lot 11, State Forest 31, approximately