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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 31

Price Order No. 884 (Amendment No. 3 of Price Orders Nos. 768 and
769) (Meat sold in Abattoir Districts and Elsewhere)

P URSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of
Prices Act, 1947, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority
of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the
following amending Price Order :-

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 884, and shall
   be read together with and deemed part of each of the Price Orders
   No. 768* and No. 769† (hereinafter referred to as the principal
   Orders).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 4th day of June,

4. The First Schedule to each of the principal Orders is hereby
   amended by omitting the figure "6d." in reference to sausage
   meat, and substituting the figure "7½d."

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1948.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence
of-

[L.S.]
W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
P. N. HOLLOWAY, Member.

• Gazette, 25th September, 1947, Vol. III, page 1397.
  † Gazette, 25th September, 1947, Vol. III, page 1395.

Price Order No. 885 (Amendment No. 2 of Price Order No. 868)
(Sugar)

P URSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of
Prices Act, 1947, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority
of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the
following amending Price Order :-

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 885, and shall
   be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 868*
   (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 4th day of June,

4. The principal Order is hereby amended by omitting from
   the First Schedule the figure "£56 10s. 8d.", from the Second
   Schedule the figure "£57 16s. 7d.", and from the Third Schedule
   the figure "£57 16s. 7d.", all the said figures being in relation to
   brewers' crystals, and substituting the figures "£55 10s. 8d.",
   "£56 16s. 7d.", and "£56 16s. 7d." respectively.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1948.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence
of-

[L.S.]
W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
P. N. HOLLOWAY, Member.

• Gazette, 9th April, 1948, Vol. I, page 387.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES

Land in the North Auckland Land District forfeited
Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 29th May, 1948.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the North Auckland
Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

Tenure. Lease No. Allotments. Parish. Lessee. Date of Forfeiture.
Renewable lease .. 2090 W. 75 and N. 76 .. Waikare .. .. Kennady Eric Hutchinson 16th March, 1948.

(L. and S. 22/950A.)

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

Land in the North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenures

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st June, 1948.

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 4 o'clock p.m. on
Friday, 16th July, 1948.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on
Tuesday, 20th July, 1948, 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.

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence of
their farming experience and financial position.

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 in reduction of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND
Whangarei County.-Whangarei Survey District

SECTION 13, Block XI: Area, 851 acres 2 roods 16 perches.
Capital value, £440. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-
yearly instalment on deferred payments (term : 34½ years), £13 13s.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 16s.

Weighted with £750 for improvements, comprising fencing and
clearing. This sum is payable in cash, or after payment of a deposit
of £40 the balance will be secured as follows:-

(a) By a loading of £460 against the lease-term, 25½ years,
half-yearly instalments of principal and interest, £16 2s.
If the property is selected on deferred-payment licence
this loading will be amalgamated with the amount of
the purchase-price for the land.

(b) By first mortgage for £250 to the State Advances Corporation for a term of twenty years, instalments comprising principal and interest payable half-yearly amounting to £9 12s. 11d., and such mortgage to contain covenants in accordance with the requirements of the Corporation.

The section is situated on a metalled by-road off Whangarei-
Parua Bay Road, eighteen miles from Whangarei Railway and
three miles from school (Taranui). Contour is steep and broken.
Soil is clay on sandstone and blue rock. Property well watered
by several good streams. About 300 acres is cleared and in grass,
100 acres cleared but reverting, 250 acres light to medium quality
native bush, 150 acres unimproved. Boundary fencing is in fairly
good order, subdivisional fencing deteriorating.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

BASIL KING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/3949 ; D.O. M.L. 2497 and 3/141.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.-Supreme Court

STEPHEN HENDERSON, of Thornton Road, near Whakatane,
Dairy-farmer, was adjudged bankrupt on the 24th May, 1948.
Creditors' meeting will be held on Wednesday, the 2nd June, 1948,
at 10.30 a.m., at the Courthouse, Whakatane.

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

In Bankruptcy.-Supreme Court

REX THOMAS MIDDLETON, of 47 Waterbank Crescent,
Waterview, New Lynn, Orchardist, was adjudged bankrupt
on the 25th May, 1948. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office
on Monday, the 7th June, 1948, at 10.30 a.m.

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