924

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 33

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position and farming experience.

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 on account of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hawke's Bay County.-Puketapu Survey District. (Native Land Settlement Account.)

SECTION 11, Block VIII : Area, 11 acres 3 roods 32 perches. Capital value, £25. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term : ten years), £1 6s. 3d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, 12s. 6d.

Weighted with £500 for improvements, comprising dwelling, washhouse, garage, yards, plantation, fencing, and grassing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £100, the balance may be secured on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation (term, twenty-five years); half-yearly instalments of £13 11s. 8d. reducible to £12 11s. 8d. for prompt payment. Costs and disbursements on account of the preparation, &c., of the mortgage amounting to £3 7s. will be payable by the successful applicant.

The property is about seven and a half miles from Eskdale Post-office and Railway-station, and three and a half miles from Kaiwaka School, access being by good metalled road. Soil chocolate loam on clay ; watered by permanent spring. The property is suitable for a worker's home.

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/4564 ; D.O. S.T.L. 86.)

Settlement Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 25th March, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and 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, 27th April, 1942.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 29th April, 1942, 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.

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 fee, and amount of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS SETTLEMENT LAND.

Eketahuna County.-Puketoi Survey District.-Tiraumea Settlement. (Exempt from payment of rent for two years.*)

SECTIONS 19s. and 29s : Area, 645 acres l rood 4.4 perches. Capital value, £875 ; half-yearly rent, £21 17s. 6d.

Weighted with £935 for improvements, comprising clearing and grassing, fencing, and sheep-yards.

This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £35, and the balance by forty half-yearly instalments of £35 6s. 6d., principal and interest. No principal payments will be required for the first and second years of the lease.*

• The exemption from payment of rent and the suspension of repayment of building principal for two years are conditional on the lessee's effecting improvements to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands in each half-yearly period during the exemption and suspension in addition to the improvements required in terms of the Land Act.

This property is situated on Waitawhiti Road about seven miles from Tiraumea Post-office and the School, and about twenty-eight miles from the Eketahuna Railway-station and Saleyards. Access is by good metalled road (Alfredton-Pongaroa Highway), three miles to homestead site. The land is watered by deeply entrenched streams amd creeks. About 100 acres flat to easy rolling land, badly broken by stream, 190 acres fair quality hill country, 345 acres hilly to steep and poor, badly infested with gorse and for the most part reverted to manuka-about 10 acres rendered useless by entrenched stream. The land is suitable for grazing by an applicant holding other land.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/6424 ; D.O. L.S. R.L. 319.)

Town Settlement Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, 25th March, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and 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 Wednesday, 15th April, 1942.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 16th April, 1942, 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.

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 fee, and weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.-TOWN SETTLEMENT LAND. Awatere County.-Town of Seddon.-Starborough Settlement. SECTION 20, Block VIII : Area, 1 rood 8 perches. Capital value, £40 ; half-yearly rent, £1.

Weighted with £15 (payable in cash) for improvements, consisting of shed and fencing.

A level section situated in Simpson Street, Seddon, half a mile from Seddon Post-office. Suitable for residential purposes.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 18824 ; D.O. L.P.S. 117.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ALAN LEO WHELAN; of 38 Home Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, Farmer, 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 Wednesday, the 25th day of March, 1942, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 16th day of March, 1942.

T. C. DOUGLAS,

Acting Official Assignee.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District.

In the matter of the Administration Act, 1908, Part IV, and in the matter of the Estate of JAMES NIEPER, late of Auckland, Pie-manufacturer, deceased.

I HEREBY give notice that by an Order of the Supreme Court, Auckland, dated the 20th day of March, 1942, I was appointed Administrator of the estate of the above-named James Nieper, and I hereby call a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland, on Wednesday, Ist day of April, 1942, at the hour of 10.30 a.m.

All claims against the above estate must be lodged with me on or before the 15th day of May, 1942.

Dated at Auckland, this 23rd day of March, 1942.

T. C. DOUGLAS,

Administrator.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES JOHN HARRIS, of Napier, Motor-driver, was this day adjudged bankrupt ; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Thursday, the 26th day of March, 1942, at 11 o'clock a.m.

Dated at Napier, this 18th day of March, 1942.

W. HARTE,

Official Assignee.