JUNE 14] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 773

Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 13th June, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve is open for lease under the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 10th July, 1945.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the Invercargill District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 12th July, 1945, 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 the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, and lease fee.

SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY

SECTION 1, Block XIII, Campbelltown Hundred : Area, 37 acres. Annual rental, £3.

Undulating land, light quality, sandy loam to swamp, all in natural state. Part quarantine reserve across harbour from Bluff Harbour.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease

1. Term of lease : Twenty-one years.
2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
3. No improvements to be effected without prior consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
4. Crown not liable to pay compensation for improvements, but if at end of term a new lease is selected then value of improvements effected with consent as aforesaid will be payable by incoming lessee.
5. Lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and other noxious weeds on the land.
6. Lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the land without the prior consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
7. Lessee shall pay all rates, taxes, and other assessments accruing upon the said land.
8. Lease is liable to termination if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

W. T. SPELMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 8/10/47 ; D.O. O.L.M. 2516.)

Land in the Nelson Land District forfeited

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 13th June, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/4691.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

RICHARD KEAR of Avondale, Market-gardener, was adjudged bankrupt on 5th June, 1945. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Monday, 18th June, 1945, at 10.30 a.m.

A. W. WATTERS, Official Assignee.

Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Auckland

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the reports 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 Friday, the 29th day of June, 1945, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for orders releasing me from the administration of the said estates :—

Brough, Cissie, Auckland, Widow.
Carter, Dorothy, formerly Dorothy Baker and lately Mary Stuart, Howick, Auckland, Married Woman.
Gibson, Thomas James, Auckland, Builder.
Hay, John Wilfred, Auckland, Builder.
Lawrence, Mabel, Auckland, Spinster.
McGregor, Mabel, Auckland, Cafe-proprietress.
McLeod, Arthur Herbert Stanley, Auckland, Builder.
Nicholson, James Revel, Tuakau, Share-milker.
Porter, Desmond Alexander, Remuera, Gas-burner.
Rix, Delroy Edward, Auckland, Driver.
Western, Charles John, Birkenhead, Salesman.
Wilson, Norman Edwin, Auckland, Labourer.
Young, Howard Victor, Auckland, Cabinetmaker.

A. W. WATTERS, Official Assignee.

Auckland, 7th June, 1945.

In Bankruptcy

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

Balfour, D., of Ngaruawahia, Drover—First and final dividend of 5s. 8d. in the pound.
Hawthorne, Alfred Francis (deceased), late of Kinohaku, near Kawhia, Farmer—Fifth dividend of 4s. in the pound.
Sullivan, Joseph, formerly of Paeroa, Builder, but now a member of His Majesty’s Forces—Second dividend of 1s. 9d. in the pound.
Symons, Ivan, of Te Teko, Taxi-proprietor and Contractor—First and final dividend of 2s. 11d. in the pound.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.

Supreme Court Buildings, Hamilton, 8th June, 1945.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Dunedin

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 Tuesday, the 24th day of July, 1945, at 10.30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as I may be heard, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates :—

MacFarlane, James, of Dunedin, Clerk.
Pearson and Courtney, of Cromwell, Restaurant-keepers.
Pearson, Amy Isabel, of Cromwell, Restaurant-keeper.
Courtney, Sheila Mary, of Cromwell, Restaurant-keeper.
Crawford, J. H., of Green Island Bush, Milk-vendor.
Dow, Findlay McDiarmid, of Finegand, Farmer.
Paterson, Alan King, of Heriot, Farmer (deceased).

A. E. REYNOLDS,
Official Assignee and Official Administrator.

Dunedin, 7th June, 1945.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 38, folio 123 (Taranaki Registry), for (now) 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 180 and 181 of the Town of Stratford, whereof MAUDE MARIA FOX, wife of George Fox, of Norfolk Road, Farmer, is the registered proprietress, having been lodged with me together with an application for a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such new certificate of title after fourteen days from 14th day of June, 1945.

Dated this 8th day of June, 1945, at the Land Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. E. BROWN, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 352, folio 245 (Wellington Registry), for 1 rood 7·2 perches, more or less, situate in the Johnsonville Town District, being part of Section 12 of the Porirua District, in the names of WILLIAM OSCAR COOK, of Auckland, a Retired Storekeeper, SYDNEY FISHER BEAUMONT, a Baker, and HENRY McGINTY, a Carrier, both of Johnsonville, as tenants in common in equal shares, having been lodged with me together with an application for a provisional certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such provisional certificate of title after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 13th day of June, 1945, at the Land Registry Office, Wellington.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.