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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.

The land is 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.

Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

VINCENT I. BLAKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Gisborne Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 26th November, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o'clock p.m., on Tuesday, the 13th January, 1925.

The land may be purchased for cash or on deferred payment, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Thursday, the 15th January, 1925, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Cook County.—Waimata Survey District.

Homebush Settlement.

SECTION 12s : Area, 4 acres. Capital value, £300 ; buildings, £200. Annual installment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £25. Half-yearly rent on lease, £6 15s. ; half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings, £8 0s. 6d.

Note.—The annual instalment on deferred payment includes payment for buildings.

Improvements.

Improvements, consisting of cottage, are to be paid for in cash or by forty half-yearly instalments of £8 0s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £14 15s. 6d.

The improvements included in capital value consist of 21 chains of fencing, valued at £20.

Distant about five miles from the Gisborne Post-office and two miles from Mangapapa by good metalled road (Gisborne-Ormond Road). The King's Road Railway-station is distant about a mile and a half from the section, and the Makauri School about one mile. First-class land in good grass, watered by water-trough and pipe-line.

Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained from this office.

VINCENT I BLAKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
2849

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 26th November, 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, Palmerston North, at 4 o'clock p.m. on 12th December, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling timber on that parcel of land containing approximately 317 acres (known as Lot 8), situated on the western side of the Main Trunk line between Horopito and Pokako Railway-stations, Blocks XI, XII, and XV, Manga-nui Survey District, Provisional State Forest No. 67.

The total estimated quantity of milling-timber in superficial feet is 5,239,700, being rimu 3,958,700, miro 704,200, matai 310,700, kahikatea 194,700, totara 71,400.

Upset price : £10,100.
Ground rent : £15 17s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber : Five years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fifteenth of the purchase-money, together with half-year’s ground rent and £1 ls. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by sixteen equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid nine months after the date of sale.

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, Palmerston North,” 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.

S. A.C. DARBY,
Acting Officer in Charge.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that BERNARD STANSFIELD, of Paeroa, Furnisher, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at the Courthouse, Paeroa, on Monday, the 1st day of December, 1924, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
20th November, 1924.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that EVA ROSE OLIVER HALFORD, of Auckland, Draper and Stationer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Monday, the 8th day of December, 1924, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
21st November, 1924.