SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND
Whangarei County.—Ruakaka Survey District.—Ruarangi and Waipu
Parishes

Part Allotment N. 100, Allotments 103, 104, S. 105, N. 105, 106,
S. 107, N. 107, S. 108, SM. 108, M. 108, N. 108, and S. 109, Ruarangi
Parish, and part Allotments 219, 244, and 355, Allotments 192, 193,
242, and 243, Waipu Parish: Area, 1,580 acres 2 roods 35 perches.
Capital value £2,000. Deposit on deferred payments, £60: Half-
yearly instalment on deferred payments (term : 34½ years), £63 1s.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £60.

Weighted with £4,975 for improvements, comprising two
dwellings, wool-shed, old wool-shed, small shed, manure-shed,
fencing, clearing, grassing, and water-supply with ram and
reticulation. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of
a deposit of £1,975, the balance may be repaid over a period of
thirty years, half-yearly instalment £97.

Special Conditions
(1) Successful applicant to paint the wool-shed with two coats
of approved paint within six months.
(2) No firewood to be disposed of without approval of and
fixation of royalty by Land Board.
(3) Department prepared to negotiate for purchase by successful
applicant of stock and plant on the property.

Property situated on Caves Road, nine miles north-west of
Waipu Town and Saleyards, eleven miles from railway, and twenty-
three miles from dairy factory. About 300 acres is limestone
country, remainder is sandstone, with 470 acres broken to steep,
remainder ploughable. Property comprises 530 acres good grazing
pasture, 340 acres cleared and surface sown, 50 acres scattered
gorse and rough feed, and 550 acres tea-tree firewood and rough feed.
Electricity is not available.

The property requires considerable development, but has good
possibilities if properly handled.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

BASIL KING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/19059; D.O. Real/50.)

Town Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable
Lease

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 12th April, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are
open for selection on renewable lease (term, thirty-three
years with perpetual right of renewal at revaluation) under the
Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 11 o'clock a.m. on Monday,
10th May, 1948.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Wednesday, 12th May,
1948, at 11 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 applicants are required
to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising
the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and, in respect
of Sections 12 and 29, weighting for improvements. Discharged
servicemen, or the wives or widows of servicemen or discharged
servicemen, have preference over all other classes of applicants.

NOTE.—These sections are 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.

SCHEDULE

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS
Inangahua County.—Town of Buller.—Karamea Mining District
SECTION 12: Area, 94·2 perches. Capital value, £90 ; half-yearly
rent, 10s.
Section 14: Area, 33·3 perches. Capital value, £20; half-
yearly rent, 10s.
Section 29 : Area, 32 perches. Capital value, £20; half-yearly
rent, 10s.
Section 47: Area, 1 rood 8 perches. Capital value, £20; half-
yearly rent, 10s.
Section 48: Area, 33·9 perches. Capital value, £20; half-
yearly rent, 10s.

Weighting for Improvements
(Payable in Cash)

Section 12 : Fencing, garden, and dwelling, £264.
Section 29 : Fencing, garden, and buildings, £308.

The township is situated on the main Inangahua Junction -
Nelson Highway, about one mile from Inangahua Junction and half
a mile from Inangahua School. The sections are suitable for
building-sites.

Any further particulars required may be obtained at the office
of the undersigned.

J. A. PETERSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 9/3488; D.O. XIV/35, X/55.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

REGINALD SUMNER, formerly of Auckland, but now of
Hamilton, Carpenter, was adjudged bankrupt on the 6th
day of April, 1948. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office,
3rd Floor, Smith's Buildings, Albert Street, Auckland, on Tuesday,
the 20th April, 1948, at 10.30 a.m.

V. R. CROWHURST, Official Assignee.
3rd Floor, Smith's Buildings, Albert Street, Auckland.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ALBERT HENRY REAN, of Waiouru, Boiler Attendant, was
adjudged bankrupt on the 5th day of April, 1948. Creditors'
meeting will be held at Courthouse, Ohakune, on Monday, the 19th
day of April, 1948, at 10.30 a.m.

E. L. EGARR, Official Assignee, Taikapa.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Wanganui

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 holden on Monday, the 10th day of
May, 1948, at 10.30 a.m., I intend to apply for orders releasing me
from the administration of the said estates:

Thomas Stanley Leathem, of Wanganui, Tobacconist.
Roy Frew, of Wanganui, Truck-driver.

Dated at Wanganui, this 12th day of April, 1948.
A. R. C. CLARIDGE, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Wanganui.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

HAROLD DUDLEY TOLLEY, of 26 Lowry Terrace, Napier,
Motor-driver, was adjudged bankrupt on the 12th April,
1948. Creditors' meeting will be held at Courthouse, Napier, on
Thursday, 22nd April, 1948, at 11 a.m.

A. J. BENNETTS, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Masterton

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend is now payable in the
undermentioned estate on all proved and accepted claims:—
McKenzie, Alexander Thomas, of Masterton, Builder—First
dividend of 1s. 11¼d. in the pound.

A. WHITAKER, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Masterton, 7th April, 1948.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

LYALL HENRY IRVINE, of Dunedin, Car-dealer, was adjudged
bankrupt on the 6th April, 1948. Creditors' meeting will be
held at my office on Thursday, 15th April, 1948, at 2.15 p.m.

C. O. PRATT, Official Assignee.
Supreme Court Buildings, Dunedin.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of the outstanding
duplicate of certificate of title, Vol. 193, folio 205 (Wellington
Registry), in the name of ROSE SWANSON, wife of Ray Clive
Swanson, of Whiteman's Valley, Dairy Farmer, for part of
Sections 37–39 of the Harbour District, being Lot 13 on Deposited
Plan No. 1684, containing 16·8 perches, and application having been
made for the issue of a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, I hereby
give notice of my intention to issue such new certificate of title on
the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing
this notice.

Dated this 13th day of April, 1948, at the Land Registry Office,
Wellington.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.

APPLICATION having been made to me to register a Trans-
mission (No. 45210) of the estate of DAVID MITCHELL
MILNE, of Hamua, Retired Farmer (deceased), a mortgagee in
Memorandum of Mortgage 118307, affecting Section 5 and part of
Sections 2 and 4, Block II, Makuri, containing 205 acres 1 rood
12·4 perches, being all the land in certificates of title, Vol. 88,
folio 56, and Vol. 110, folio 247, and a discharge of the said mortgage,
and evidence having been produced of the loss of the outstanding
duplicate of the said mortgage, I hereby give notice of my intention
to dispense with the production of the said duplicate under section 40
of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and register the transmission and
discharge on the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the
Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 13th day of April, 1948, at the Land Registry Office,
Wellington.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.