Feb. 3] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 167

SCHEDULE
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—URBAN LAND
Napier Borough Council.—Town of Napier
Town Section 732, Town of Napier: Area, 37·4 perches. Rental value or purchase-price, £50. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: ten years), £2 16s. 9d. Renewable lease (thirty-three years): Half-yearly rent, £1 2s. 6d.

This property is a disused quarry-site situated in Havelock and Lucknow Terraces, Napier. It consists of a quarry face 80 ft. to 100 ft. on two sides, the balance being a small area of flat land below road-level, covered in blackberry and fennel.

The section is considered unsuitable for a dwelling-site, but would be of use to a person desiring to erect a workshop or garage.

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 1913/255 ; D.O. 3/403.)

Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 1st February, 1949.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 7th March, 1949.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 8th March, 1949, at 10.30 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 for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position and farming experience.

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 or deposit on deferred payments, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and payment on account of weighting for improvements. Possession of the property will be given on 1st April, 1949.

SCHEDULE
FIRST-CLASS RURAL LAND
Waimate County.—Waimate and Waitaki Survey Districts.—Waimate Settlement

Sections 1 and 36, Block XIV, Waimate Survey District, and Section 2, Block II, Waitaki Survey District: Area, 996 acres 3 roods 30 perches. Rental value or purchase-price, £1,055. Deposit on deferred payments, £55: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: thirty years), £31. Renewable lease (thirty-three years): Half-yearly rent, £23 14s. 9d.

Weighted with £401 for improvements, comprising wool-shed, yards, planting, and fencing. Of this amount £149 is payable to the Lands Department and £252 to the State Advances Corporation. These amounts are payable in cash, or on terms to be arranged prior to the ballot between the applicant and the Department and Corporation respectively.

The property is situated about six miles from Waimate and one mile and a half from the Arno Railway-station by good roads. The soil is light to medium loam, well watered by springs and streams. The property, which is badly infested with gorse and manuka scrub, has an altitude of from 800 ft. to 1,200 ft., and has 150 acres of flats rising to steeper country broken by deep rocky gullies. Suitable for sheep-grazing.

This description is in general terms, and intending applicants should satisfy themselves by personal inspection as to the condition of the property and its carrying-capacity.

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

T. W. PRESTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/13949 ; D.O. O.L. 3750.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

WALTER ROBERT OLLIVER, of 21 Mount Street, Nelson, formerly Managing-director, at present unemployed, was adjudged bankrupt on 21st January, 1949. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office in the Courthouse, Nelson, on Thursday, 3rd February, 1949, at 2 p.m.

E. R. GRAHAM, Official Assignee, Nelson.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

JOHN THOMAS WILLIAMS, of Blenheim, Painter, was adjudged bankrupt on the 21st day of January, 1949. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Friday, the 4th day of February, 1949, at 11 a.m.

J. T. A. BEAUMONT, Official Assignee.
Supreme Court Buildings, Blenheim.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 55, folio 53 (Taranaki Registry), for 33 perches, being Lot 61, Deposited Plan 1786, Town of Franklyn, in the name of BELLA HOOK, of Inglewood, Married Woman, 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 26th day of January, 1949, at the Land Registry Office, New Plymouth.

D. A. YOUNG, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 248, folio 265 (Canterbury Registry), for 20 perches, being part of Lot 35 on Deposited Plan No. 12, part of Rural Section 1959, situated in the City of Timaru, whereof GEORGINA WESTLAND COPPEN, of Timaru, Married Woman (but now of Christchurch, Widow), is the registered proprietor, and application having been made to me 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 upon the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 28th day of January, 1949, at the Land Registry Office, Christchurch.

W. E. BROWN, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3) AND (4)

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the names of the undermentioned companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the companies dissolved :—

Plastopak, Limited. 1941/33.
Metal Furnishings, Limited. 1940/122.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of January, 1949.

H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

PERMAN TISSUE PRODUCTS, LIMITED

CREDITORS’ VOLUNTARY WINDING UP

NOTICE is hereby given that by extraordinary resolution of shareholders of Perman Tissue Products, Limited, dated the 14th day of January, 1949, it was resolved :—

“That the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up.”

At a meeting of the creditors of the company held on the 24th day of January, 1949, LEWIS NATHAN ROSS, of Auckland, Public Accountant, was appointed liquidator of the company.

Notice to Creditors to Prove

The liquidator of Perman Tissue Products, Limited, does hereby fix the 28th day of February, 1949, as the day on or before which creditors of the company have to prove their claims or debts and to establish priority (if any) under section 258 of the Companies Act, 1933, otherwise they may be excluded from the benefits of any distribution made before such claims or debts are proved, or, as the case may be, from objection to such distribution.

Dated this 26th day of January, 1949.

L. N. ROSS, Liquidator.

708–10 Colonial Mutual Building, Queen Street, Auckland C.1. 859

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND

NOTICE is hereby given that the Whakatane County Council proposes, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute the public works hereunder mentioned, and for the purposes of which public works the lands described in the Schedules hereto are required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the said Whakatane County Council situated at The Strand, Whakatane, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public works or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public works or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice, to the Clerk of the said Council at the said office.