Feb. 26] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 233

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, 24th February, 1948. W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

Releasing Land from the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the lands described in the Schedule hereto a certain notice dated the 13th day of January, 1932, and published in Gazette No. 6 of the 21st day of the same month at page 115, whereby the provisions of section 522 of the Maori Land Act, 1931 (now Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936), were applied to, inter alia, the said lands and such lands are hereby excluded from the Te Kaha Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

THE following lands situate in the Waiariki Maori Land Court District:—

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of February, 1948.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

G. P. SHEPHERD,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(N.D. 1/3/19.)

Declaring Land to be subject to Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby declares the lands described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part I of the said Act and to be included in the Mahia Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

THE following lands situate in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District:—

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of February, 1948.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

G. P. SHEPHERD,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(N.D. 1/4/15.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Land in the North Auckland Land District acquired for a Permanent State Forest

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 19th February, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act, 1921–22, for the purposes of a permanent State forest.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—AUCKLAND CONSERVANCY

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Bay of Islands County, containing by admeasurement 1,987 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Waikare No. 17 Block, situated in Blocks XI, XII, and XVI, Russell Survey District, and being the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 274, folio 240. As the same is delineated on plan No. 6/7, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

N. J. DOLAMORE, Assistant Director of Forestry.

(F.S. 9/1/34.)

Clerks of Works Act, 1944.—List of Persons who have passed the Examination for a Certificate of Competency as Clerk of Works

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with Regulation 43 of the Clerks of Works Regulations 1945, that on 28th and 29th November, 1947, the undermentioned persons passed the written and oral examinations for a certificate of competency as Clerk of Works:—

F. DEWHURST, Secretary,
Clerks of Works Registration Board.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

ALBERT EDWARD HAKES, of Putaruru, Timber-worker, was adjudged bankrupt on the 23rd February, 1948. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Putaruru, on Thursday, the 4th March, 1948, at 10 a.m.

H. B. REID, Official Assignee.
Supreme Court Buildings, Hamilton.

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