1094
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 54

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, 6th August, 1946.
W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

Notices under the Regulations Act, 1936

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of regulations and Orders as under :—

*Date of approval of His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, 7th August, 1946.

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting serial number.

E. V. PAUL, Government Printer.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 6th August, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 10th September, 1946.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 12th September, 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 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

Wairoa County.—Nuhaka North Survey District

SECTION 3, Block XVII: Area, 317 acres. Capital value, £240. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: twenty years), £9 2s. 10d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 16s.

Weighted with £408 for improvements, comprising dwelling, fencing, and 50 acres partly grassed. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £178, the balance of £230 may be secured by private mortgage for a term of three years, with interest at 4½ per cent. per annum. The successful applicant will be required to pay all costs for the preparation and registration of this mortgage.

The property is situated on the Mangaone Road, distant about thirty miles from Wairoa. About 36 acres of the section is exceptionally wet flat land, comprising 4 acres in rough pasture and 32 acres swamp land, while the remainder comprises 2 acres undulating land in scrub and 279 acres mostly steep hill country, practically all covered in manuka scrub, tauhinu, and sweet fern. The soil is mostly poor quality loam resting on clay formation. The section is watered by permanent creeks.

The property is suitable only for farming in conjunction with other land.

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 21/149/2242; D.O. L.P. 257.)