Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2057

principally birch with some rimu. About 100 acres are flat and terrace land, balance is broken pastoral land, rather steep.

Files—H.O., 26/4535 ; D.O., R.L. 698.

Murchison County.—Tutaki Survey District.

Sections 4 and 28, Block IX, and Section 8, Block XIII : Area, 365 acres; upset capital value, £630. Open for selection on renewable lease only. Annual rental on renewable lease, £31 10s. Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908, and to restrictions regarding minerals.

The improvements consist of a four-roomed dwelling, milking-shed, separator-room, and other outbuildings. Subdivided into four paddocks. About 80 acres of bush land has been felled and grassed.

Situated nine miles from Murchison Dairy Factory and three miles from a school. About 30 acres of flat land. With the exception of the cleared portion, the section is in standing bush, inclined to be rough and poor. There is a frontage to the Matakitaki River and access from Murchison by good metalled road.

Files—H.O., 26/10020 ; D.O., R.L. 542 and 356.

TERMS OF SALE OF LANDS IN FIRST SCHEDULE.

1. Cash.—A deposit of one-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days.

2. Deferred Payments.—A deposit as shown against the respective properties in the First Schedule above, balance by equal half-yearly instalments, consisting partly of purchase-money and partly of interest, extending over a period not exceeding thirty-four years and a half in the case of a civilian and thirty-six years and a half in the case of a discharged soldier, with a right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount.

3. The unpaid purchase-money shall be secured by way of instalment mortgage, interest being calculated at 5 per cent. in the case of discharged soldiers and 5½ per cent. in all other cases. A rebate of one-tenth of the interest payable will be allowed for prompt payment of instalments.

4. Transfer and mortgage exempt from stamp duty.

TERMS OF SALE OF LANDS IN SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. Rental is calculated at the rate of 5 per cent. on the capital value.

2. A deposit of one-half year’s rental, rental for broken period from date of sale to 1st January or 1st July (whichever is the nearer), and £1 1s. lease fee to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

3. Term of lease, thirty-three years.

The lands are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber withdrawn from Sale.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 19th August, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the timber in Auckland Forest-conservation Region advertised for sale by public tender in Gazette of the 28th June, 1923, page 1819, is withdrawn from sale.

R. D. CAMPBELL, Conservator of Forests.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.—Auckland Forest-conservation Region.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 18th August, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Auckland, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 17th September, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

ALL the milling-timber branded X and V situated in Hastings Survey District on Tapu Creek Watershed, near Thames, and estimated in superficial feet as follows :—

Kauri .. 1,548 green and dry trees 3,001,350 ft.
Rimu .. 124 trees .. 153,900 ft.
Kahikatea .. 18 trees .. 41,250 ft.

Total .. 1,690 trees .. 3,196,500 ft.

Upset price, £7,880.

Ground rent, £50 per annum.

Four and a half years will be allowed in which to remove the timber.

TERMS OF PAYMENT.

A marked cheque for one-ninth of the purchase-money, together with half-year’s ground rent and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in eight equal instalments as follows : One six months and one twelve months after date of sale, and the remainder at quarterly intervals thereafter.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. All instalment-payments shall be secured by “on demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of State Forests, and interest at current bank rates will be charged on all notes overdue from the date of maturity to the date of payment.

2. The right to cut and remove the timber will be sold in accordance with the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921–22, the regulations in force thereunder, and these conditions.

3. The attention of all tenderers is drawn to the fact that the local controlling body may require the successful tenderer to pay any claims or charges which may be made by that body for the maintenance of the road over which the timber may be transported, and before a sawmill license is issued a letter indicating that satisfactory arrangements have been made in this connection must be produced to the undersigned.

4. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relative to the sale.

5. Each tenderer must state the total price that he is prepared to pay for each species. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is submitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the tender by the Commissioner of State Forests.

6. The right is reserved to the Commissioner of State Forests to withdraw from sale any or all of the said timber either before or after the closing-date for receipt of tenders.

7. If no tender is accepted for the timber herein mentioned, it will remain open for application at the upset price until further notice.

8. Tenders should be on the special form obtainable from any office of the State Forest Service, and should be enclosed in envelopes addressed “Conservator of Forests, Auckland,” and endorsed “Tender for Timber.”

The conditions which will be inserted in the license to be issued to the purchaser, and further particulars may be obtained on application to the undersigned or to the Director of Forestry, Wellington.

R. D. CAMPBELL, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that PERCIVAL TONG, of Waiuku, Builder, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 25th day of August, 1924, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

12th August, 1924.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Hamilton.

NOTICE is hereby given that ERNEST FREDERICK TRAIL, of Mahirakau, Mill Hand, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Taumarunui, on Tuesday, the 19th day of August, 1924, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

11th August, 1924.