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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 41

CROWN LANDS NOTICE

Town Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 19th July, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 23rd August, 1948.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 24th August, 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.

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, and lease fee, and, in the case of Section 103, the amount of weighting for improvements (£14).

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.

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SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS
Hauraki Mining District.—Thames County.—Whangamata Township

*Weighted with improvements (payable in cash), £14.

The Township of Whangamata is situated at the entrance to the Whangamata Harbour on the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula, about twenty-three miles from Waihi.

Sections 78–81 and 188, 189, and 193 are situated with frontages to Main Port Road, while Sections 194–197 have frontages to side road just off Main Port Road. Section 103 has frontage to a side road approximately 20 chains off the Main Port Road.

All sections are suitable for building-sites.

NOTE

1. Selectors will be required, within a period of twelve months of selecting, to erect a permanent residence on the property.
2. Preference will be accorded to applications submitted by ex-servicemen and the wives or widows of ex-servicemen.
3. The Lands and Survey Department does not accept any obligation to improve the existing access to any of these sections.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

D. A. PATERSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/4603; D.O. 8/847.)

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 10s. 5d. in the pound is now payable at my office on all proved claims in the estate of Walter Thomas Woolston, of Diggers Flat, Kaitaia, Farm Labourer.

T. P. PAIN, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Whangarei, 15th July, 1948.

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In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends as under have been declared on all accepted proved claims:—

Estate of Helena Adams, of Te Aroha, Confectioner—First dividend of 10s. in the pound.

Estate of Owen Patrick Bosson, of Rotorua, Contractor—First dividend of 4s. in the pound.

Estate of Raymond Robinson and Ronald Robinson, lately trading as Robinson Brothers, of Rotorua, Contractors—First and final dividend of 7½d. in the pound.

H. B. REID, Official Assignee.
Supreme Court, Hamilton, 14th July, 1948.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that GORDON EDWIN LAING, of 3 Sayer Street, Hamilton, Borer Treater, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be helden at my office, Supreme Court Buildings, Hamilton, on Tuesday, the 27th day of July, 1948, at 10.15 o’clock in the forenoon.

Given under my hand at Hamilton, this 13th day of July, 1948.

H. B. REID, Official Assignee.

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In Bankruptcy

Estate of CLAUDE EWEN THOMPSON, of Te Reinga, Mechanic.

NOTICE is hereby given that a supplementary dividend of 8d. in the pound, making a total of 4s. in the pound, is now payable at my office on all accepted proved claims.

J. MILLER, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Wairoa, 16th July, 1948.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Napier

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 held on Friday, the 6th day of August, 1948, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates:—

William John Mackay, of Ardkeen, Wairoa, Farmer.
Eric James Green, of Wairoa, Solicitor.
Peter Smith and William Smith, trading in partnership as Smith Brothers, of Whakaki, Labourers.
Peter Smith, of Whakaki, Labourer.
William Smith, of Whakaki, Labourer.

Dated at Wairoa, this 16th day of July, 1948.

J. MILLER, Official Assignee, Wairoa.

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In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

JOHN AVERY CORMACK, of 80 Charles Street, Westshore, Motor-driver, was adjudged bankrupt on the 16th July, 1948. Creditors’ meeting will be held at Courthouse, Napier, on Wednesday, 28th July, 1948, at 11 a.m.

A. J. BENNETTS, Official Assignee, Napier.

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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 held on Monday, the 2nd day of August, 1948, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates:—

Ivan Carr Douglas, of Waitara Stationer,
Albert Henry Rean, of Waiouru, Boiler-attendant.

Dated at Taihape, this 15th day of July, 1948.

E. L. EGARR, Official Assignee, Taihape.

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LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 103, folio 173 (Taranaki Registry), for 1 rood, being Section 122, Town of Inglewood, in the names of FLORENCE MAUD DOWNS, of Ratapiko, and ELIZABETH SMITH, of Inglewood, both Married Women, as tenants in common in equal shares, 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 the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 14th day of July, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, New Plymouth.

D. A. YOUNG, District Land Registrar.

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APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a new certificate of title in the name of FREDERICK FOSTER CLENDON WHITE, of Waipawa, Farmer, for 1 rood and 38 perches, more or less, situate in Block III, Takapau Survey District, being part of Block 234, Ruataniwha Crown Grant District, being also Lots 5 and 6, Deeds Plan No. 620 (part of Takapau Extension No. 4), and being all the land in certificate of title, H.B. Vol. 83, folio 21, subject to section 32 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and evidence having been lodged of the loss or destruction of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the new certificate of title as requested after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 14th day of July, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, Napier.

E. S. MOLONY, District Land Registrar.