Feb. 6] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 173

CROWN LANDS NOTICES

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 3rd February, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 14th March, 1947.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 18th March, 1947, 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 deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

Discharged servicemen, and the wives or widows of servicemen or discharged servicemen, have preference over all other classes of applicants.

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SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND

Bay of Islands County.—Omapere Survey District

SECTIONS 11 and 15, Block IV: Area, 365 acres 3 roods 17 perches. Capital value, £190. Deposit on deferred payments, £20. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: twenty years), £7 1s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

Weighted with £110 for improvements, comprising grassing and fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £10, the balance may be paid over twenty years by half-yearly instalment, £4 3s. 1d., principal and interest combined.

These sections are situated on the Okaihau-Kerikeri Road, eight miles from Okaihau. The land is easy undulating to hilly, practically all ploughable; 30 acres have been cleared and grassed, the balance being in scrub and fern with some gorse. The soil is brown rubble clay on semi-volcanic formation; watered by running stream.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

BASIL KING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 36/365 : D.O.S.F.H. 268.)

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Town Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 4th February, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 10th March, 1947.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Wednesday, 12th March, 1947, at 10.30 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 first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and amount of weighting for improvements.

NOTE.—This land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

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SCHEDULE

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND

Village at Omau.—Karamea Mining District

SECTION 31: Area, 3 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £6; half-yearly rent, 3s.

Weighted with £7 10s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising fencing.

This is a building-site situated half a mile from Cape Foulwind Post-office, seven miles from Westport Railway-station, and half a mile from Cape Foulwind School.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

E. P. WAKELIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/1450/1578; D.O. X/55, O.L. 908.)

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICE

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

JIMMY WAEREA, of Bridge Pah, Labourer, was adjudged bankrupt on 30th January, 1947. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hastings, on Wednesday, the 12th day of February, 1947, at 11 a.m.

A. J. BENNETTS, Official Assignee, Napier.

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LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 353, folio 207 (Auckland Registry), for 799 acres 2 roods 6 perches, being Sections 2 and 3 of Block III of the Aroha Survey District, in favour of THE NATIVE TRUSTEE OF THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND, having been lodged with me together with an application for the issue of 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 6th February, 1947.

Dated this 31st day of January, 1947, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and its amendments, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of publication of the New Zealand Gazette containing this notice:—

No. 13631. THE MAYOR, COUNCILLORS, AND BURGESSES OF THE BOROUGH OF RANGIORA. Part of Rural Sections 53 and 226A, Borough of Rangiora. Queen Street. Lots 3 and 6 on Deposited Plan 12852. Occupied by applicant.

No. 13632. ROBERT LITTLE. Part of Town Reserve 164, City of Christchurch. Dollan’s Lane. Lot 1 on Deposited Plan 13115. Occupied by Noeline Agnes Fraser.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 3rd day of February, 1947, at the Land Registry Office, Christchurch.

A. L. B. ROSS, District Land Registrar.

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EVIDENCE having been lodged of the loss of Mortgage No. 100407 (Otago Registry), from ROBERT SHEARER McLEAN and AGNES WILSON McLEAN to JOHN JACKSON PURDIE, affecting 26·55 perches, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan 5058, Glen Estate, being part Sections 68 and 69, Block VI, Town District, and being all the land in certificate of title, Vol. 289, folio 17, and application having been made to me to register Transmission No. 28768 to the Public Trustee and a discharge of the said mortgage without production of the said mortgage, notice is hereby given of my intention to dispense with the production of the said mortgage under section 40, Land Transfer Act, 1915, and to register the said transmission and discharge as requested on the 21st February, 1947.

Dated this 30th day of January, 1947, at the Land Registry Office, Dunedin.

E. B. C. MURRAY, District Land Registrar.

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EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 289, folio 45 (Otago Registry), for part of the land in Deposited Plan 2403, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Deposited Plan 5110, and Lots 2, 3, 4, and 5, Deposited Plan 2468, Township of Abbotsford Extension No. 1, being part Section 60, Block VII, Dunedin and East Taieri District, containing 10 acres 3 roods 26·24 perches, in the name of MAGDALENE ANNIE BROOKES, wife of George Alfred Lewis Brookes, of Green Island, Farmer, 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 on 21st February, 1947.

Dated this 30th day of January, 1947, at the Land Registry Office, Dunedin.

E. B. C. MURRAY, District Land Registrar.

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ADVERTISEMENTS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (6)

NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck off the Register and the company dissolved:—

Sandman & Barclay, Limited. 1937/150.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 24th day of January, 1947.

L. G. TUCK, Assistant Registrar of Companies.