Conscience Money Received

I hereby acknowledge receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown, as conscience money, to the New Zealand Government:

£5 and £5 to the Customs Department.
£10 and £450 to the Inland Revenue Department.
£12 to the Social Security Department.
5s, £20, and £1 10s. to the Treasury Department.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of April 1957.
E. L. GREENSMITH, Secretary to the Treasury.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan

PURSUANT to the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, the following notice received by the Minister of Finance from the Mayor, Borough of Paeroa, is hereby published.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of March 1957.
E. L. GREENSMITH, Secretary to the Treasury.

BOROUGH OF PAEROA
Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to Raise a Loan of £86,500 for Water Supply.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Paeroa taken on the 26th day of March 1957 on the proposal of the Paeroa Borough Council to borrow the sum of eighty-six thousand five hundred pounds (£86,500) for the purpose of providing an improved water supply for the borough:

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ... 164
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 82
Informal .....

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 27th day of March 1957.
R. J. SHAW, Mayor.

Notice Under Section 30 of the Mining Act 1926

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Maori Land Court will be held at Kawhia on Wednesday, 15 May 1957, commencing at 10 a.m., to consider an application for the grant of an Order declaring the Maori land described in the Schedule hereto to be open for prospecting under the Mining Act 1926.

SCHEDULE
ALL those pieces of land situated in Blocks I, II; and III, Marokopa Survey District, and in Blocks XV and XVI, Albatross Survey District, and being Taharoa A 1A, A 1c 7 (part), A 1c 16A, A 1c 16C-J, A 2C, A 3A, A 4 (part), A 6A, A 7A, A 7J 4, A 7J 8A-B, A 7J 9, A 7J 10, and A 7J 13A-B.

Dated at Auckland this 1st day of April 1957.
A. E. EDWARDS, Registrar.
(M.A. 5/14/3)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

JOHN ROLAND STANFORD, of Boundary Road, Waihi, carpenter, was adjudged bankrupt on 8 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Tuesday, 16 April 1957, at 2.30 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

RUSSELL WALTER BURFIELD-MILLS, of Te Kauwhata, baker, was adjudged bankrupt on 4 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Monday, 15 April 1957, at 3.30 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

LESLIE CLARENCE BRUCE JONATHAN, of Takapuna Tourist Court, Takapuna, gardener, was adjudged bankrupt on 3 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 18 April 1957, at 2.30 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend is now payable in the under-mentioned estates on all proved claims:

David Bruce Alexander, of 11 Kanuka Street, Point Chevalier, storeman. First and final dividend of 16s. 4d. in the pound.
Jack Leon Bailey, of 66 May Road, Mount Roskill, painter. First dividend of 3s. 9d. in the pound.
Hector Thure Berggren, of 345 Sandringham Road, Auckland, mechanic. First and final dividend of 2s. 3d. in the pound.
Sydney Mervyn Doddrell, of 16 Symonds Street, Auckland, driving instructor. First and final dividend of 4s. 5d. in the pound.
Donald Lockwood Goldfinch, of Laurieston Avenue, Auckland, merchant. Second and final dividend of 10d. making in all 2s. 6d. in the pound.
R. T. Gray, of Naval Base, Devonport, able seaman. First and final dividend of 1s. 5d. in the pound.
Arthur John McLaren, of Puru, Thames, carpenter. First dividend of 1s. 6d. in the pound.
James Mitchell, of Tamaki, chillerhand. First and final dividend of 13s. 6d. in the pound.
Alexander Pitkethley, of Parnell, Auckland, bootmaker. First and final dividend of 2s. 3d. in the pound.
Henry Alston Pye, of Mount Eden, foreman carpenter. First and final dividend of 5s. 7d. in the pound.
Owen Arthur Start, of Mount Maunganui, painter. First and final dividend of 6d. in the pound.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ALBERT WESSLEY MORGAN, of 7 Cambridge Street, Putaruru, labourer, was adjudged bankrupt on 2 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Friday, 12 April 1957, at 11.30 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Hamilton, 2 April 1957.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

DANIEL HINGARAKU STOCKMAN, of Piopio, farm labourer, was adjudged bankrupt on 8 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Te Kuiti, on Thursday, 18 April 1957, at 10 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Hamilton, 8 April 1957.

In Bankruptcy—In the Supreme Court, Holden at Napier

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance sheets in respect of the under-mentioned 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 helden on Friday, the 3rd day of May 1957, at 10 a.m., I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Bainbridge, Owen George, Raupare, farm employee.
Bauckham, Hester Ada, Napier, frock specialist.
Blakey, Walter, Hastings, labourer.
Burns, William John, Napier, shepherd.
Callaghan, John Edward, Hastings, motor mechanic.
Cormack, John Avery, Westshore, motor driver.
Glenn, Edward Lionel, Hastings, salesman.
Glenn, Eileen Nancy, Hastings, married woman.
Grant, Quintian Robin, Waipawa, labourer.
Herkt, Leslie Ernest, Pakatutu, bushman.
Kidd, Robert William, Hastings, hairdresser.
Kirk, Russell Holmes, Foxton, textile worker.
McLeod, Charles, Waipawa, company director.
Nicholls, Arthur Bert, Tikokino, garage proprietor.
Stephens, Leonard Joseph, Kotemaori, tractor driver.
Sullivan, Daniel Rangihoroa, Omahu, fencing contractor.
Walker, Samuel, Porangahau, fencer.
Wyatt, Thomas Michael, Westshore, carpenter.

Dated at Napier this 8th day of April 1957.
A. G. SMITH, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Napier.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

BERNARD ANDREW McBREARTY, of Napier, barman, was adjudged bankrupt on 3 April 1957. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Napier, on 16 April 1957, at 11 a.m.

A. G. SMITH, Official Assignee.
Napier.