Jan. 10] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 37

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 7th January, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 6th February, 1946.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 8th February, 1946, 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 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 will be required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and deposit on weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND
Wairoa County.—Taramarama Survey District

SECTION 6, Block XIV: Area, 1,066 acres 1 rood 20 perches. Capital value, £750. Deposit on deferred payments, £50. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: 34½ years), £22 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £18 15s.

Weighted with £2,200 for improvements, comprising cottage, wool-shed, garage, implement-shed, sheep-yards, 270 chains subdivisional fencing, 292 chains boundary-fencing, cultivation, &c., and clearing and grassing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £200, the balance may be repaid by the successful applicant’s giving a first mortgage over the lease to the estate of the former lessee for £450, and contracting to repay to the Crown the sum of £1,550 by equal half-yearly instalments over a period of 25½ years, if selected under deferred-payment tenure, or over a period of 36½ years if selected on renewable lease.

This is a grazing proposition situated on the Ruapapa Road about nineteen miles from the Town of Wairoa, the butter factory and saleyards, and four miles from the Kora Kora School. Access to the main portion is by cable and cage approximately 105 yards over the Waiau River, or four miles from the Wairoa–Waikaremoana Road. The soil is light to medium loam on pumiceous loam and clay, watered by permanent creeks and springs. Approximately 500 acres fairly good land, balance poor and severe scrub-reverting country. About 90 acres is light terrace flats, balance mostly easy to fairly steep hill country broken by deep gullies. Altitude up to 1,000 ft. above sea-level. Approximately 400 acres originally cleared and grassed now reverted to scrub, with some grazing over about 200 acres; 250 acres back portion and terrace flats in mostly native and fair English grasses, balance native grasses with severe scrub reversion and fern on most parts.

Applications for this property will be received from both civilian and returned servicemen, but preference will be given to the latter.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

J. P. LANE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/161/3; D.O. R.L. 223.)

Land for Selection on Miscellaneous Lease

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 7th January, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on miscellaneous tenure under section 152 of the Land Act, 1924, as amended by section 6 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1944; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4.30 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 5th February, 1946.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 7th February, 1946, 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.

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, and lease fee.

SCHEDULE

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND
Hawke’s Bay County.—Te Mata Survey District

PART Section 6, Block IX: Area, 18 acres 1 rood 6 perches. Half-yearly rent, 9s.

This property is suitable only for occupation by adjoining owners.

Conditions of Lease

(1) Term of lease: Fifteen years, with no right of renewal or for compensation for any improvements effected during the currency of the lease.

(2) The lessee shall erect or cause to be erected a low-level bridge over the canal giving access to the section to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(3) The lessee shall erect or cause to be erected boundary-fencing to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(4) The lessee shall stock and grass the area to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

NOTE.—The lessee shall be exempt from special drainage rates.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/4154; D.O. 20/267.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

LESLIE ROBERT STEWART, of 30 Old Lake Road, Devonport, Builder, was adjudged bankrupt on 18th December, 1945. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Friday, 28th December, 1945, at 10.30 a.m.

A. W. WATTERS, Official Assignee.

Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland.

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends in the undermentioned estates are now payable at my office, Church Street, Masterton, on all proved and accepted claims:—

Byrne, Arthur Owen, of Carterton—First and final dividend of 5s. 2d. in the pound.

Ham, Joe, of Greytown—First and final dividend of 1s. 6¾d. in the pound.

Rees, Isabella Fisher, of Carterton—First and final dividend of 4¼d. in the pound.

ARTHUR D. LOW,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Masterton, 4th January, 1946.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

BERTRAM EGLEY, of 9 Maarama Crescent, Wellington, Clerk, was adjudicated bankrupt on the 21st December, 1945. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, the 3rd January, 1946, at 10.30 a.m.

S. TANSLEY, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 743, folio 134 (Auckland Registry), for Lots 2 and 4, Deposited Plan 30052, being part of Allotment 30 of Suburban Section 2, Parish of Pukekohe, in favour of JOHN KNOWLES, of Pukekohe, Merchant, 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 10th January, 1946.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1945, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

WM. MCBRIDE, District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before 11th February, 1946:—

8157. LEONARD JOHN PATRICK, of Whangaroa, Farmer. Lot 6 and part Lot 4, Plan 25198, being part of Allotment 52 of the Parish of Kaeo, containing 4 acres 1 rood 31 perches. Occupied by applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1945, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

WM. MCBRIDE, District Land Registrar.

APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a new certificate of title in the name of THE TRUSTEES EXECUTORS AND AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, for Lot 2, Plan 1617, being part of Sections 7 and 8, Block III, Town of North Invercargill, and being the balance of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 101, folio 209 (Southland Registry), and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the new certificate of title as requested after fourteen days from 20th December, 1945.

Dated this 17th day of December, 1945, at the Land Registry Office, Invercargill.

C. L. HARNEY, District Land Registrar.