Oct. 7] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1263

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, 28th September, 1948. W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE

Land in the Otago Land District Forfeited

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 24th September, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Otago Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that BENJAMIN ERNEST FIRMAN, formerly of Cambridge, but now of Putaruru, Butcher, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Putaruru, on Monday, the 11th day of October, 1948, at 2.15 o’clock p.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 29th day of September, 1948.

H. B. REID, Official Assignee.

Supreme Court Buildings, Hamilton.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that IVY MARGARET MCALLISTER, of Pongaroa, Fruiterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 12th day of October, 1948, at 10.30 o’clock.

Dated at Dannevirke, this 1st day of October, 1948.

A. G. SMITH, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 240, folio 213 (Auckland Registry), for 39·6 perches, being Lot 42, Deposited Plan 7494, being part Fairburns Old Land Claim 269A, in the name of THE GUARDIAN TRUST AND EXECUTORS COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, 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 certificate of title on 22nd October, 1948.

Dated this 1st day of October, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 810, folio 279 (Auckland Registry), for 1 rood 24 perches, being Lots 4 and 5, Deposited Plan No. 3178, being part Section 30, Suburbs of Rotorua, in the name of THE GUARDIAN TRUST AND EXECUTORS COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, having being 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 certificate of title on 22nd October, 1948.

Dated this 1st day of October, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 618, folio 129 (Auckland Registry), for 32·1 perches, being Lot 43, Deposited Plan 20535 (Town of Waiheke Extension No. 44), being part Huruhi 5r 2A Block, Blocks I and V, Waiheke Survey District, in the name of NANCY BURNS, of Auckland, Married Woman (now a Widow), 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 certificate of title on 22nd October, 1948.

Dated this 1st day of October, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

G. H. SEDDON, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of the outstanding duplicate of Mortgage No. 17560, from JOHN JOSEPH LANGER, to (now) the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, and of the outstanding duplicate of Crown Lease, Vol. 2L, folio 227, Gisborne Registry (being a lease in perpetuity under Part III of the Land Act, 1892), in the name of JOHN JOSEPH LANGER, of Raukaroa, Farmer, as lessee, for 1,123 acres 3 roods and 8 perches, more or less, being part of Section 3, Block XV, Motu Survey District, and application (W. 2061) having been made to register a discharge of the said mortgage without production of the said outstanding duplicates of the mortgage and Crown Lease and to issue a provisional lease in lieu of the lost Crown Lease, I hereby give notice of my intention to register the discharge of the mortgage and to issue such provisional lease as requested on the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 1st day of October, 1948, at the Land Registry Office, Gisborne.

E. L. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.