2994

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 85

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 16th December, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 21 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the under-mentioned land is open for sale or selection either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for renewable lease, and applications accompanied by a half year’s rent and valuation for improvements, will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 9th January, 1925.

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Patangata County.—Porangahau Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block XIII: Area, 567 acres 3 roods, Capital value, £1,400. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £35. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £28. Weighted with £1,050, valuation for improvements consisting of house, shed, clearing, plantation, and road, boundary, and subdivisional fencing, to be paid for in cash immediately an applicant is declared successful.

Situated eleven miles from Porangahau by formed road—the Te Uri Road runs through the section. Open country, consisting of easy narrow spurs between rough gullies, about one-quarter of the section being easily ploughable. Well watered. Soil light and indifferently grassed, with patches of manuka scrub. The section was originally portion of the well known Manawaangiangi Block.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Napier.

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 15th December, 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 23rd January, 1925.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that parcel of land containing approximately 246 acres, being Section 16, Block I, Hautapu Survey District, situated about three miles south-west of Taihape.

The total estimated quantity of milling-timber in superficial feet is 3,604,500, being rimu 2,929,700, miro 392,500, matai 227,300, kahikatea 41,400, totara 13,600.

Upset price: £5,700.

Ground rent: £12 6s. per annum.

Time for removal of timber: Five years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-tenth 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 by fourteen equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid six months after the date of sale.

Note.—Intending tenderers are advised that arrangements may be made with the owner to purchase 150 acres of adjoining bush similar to the above. The owner estimates the stand to be 1,500,000 superficial feet.

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.

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that HAROLD ALFRED CHRISTOPHER, of Warkworth, Shoe-importer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 19th day of December, 1924, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

13th December, 1924.

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In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims; promissory notes (if any) are to be produced for endorsement prior to receiving dividends:—

Fitzgerald, James Courtney, and Richard Gerald, trading as J. C. and R. G. Fitzgerald, of Kiwitahi, Farmers—First and final dividend of 2·975d. in the pound.

Howe, Harry Bertram, of Hamilton, Draper—First dividend of 4s. in the pound.

Mills, Edmund, of Hamilton East, Ironmonger—First dividend of 4s. in the pound.

V. H. SANSON,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Hamilton, 15th December, 1924.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that PIRIPI TE KAURU, of Clydebank, near Wairoa, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the office of A. H. H. Unwin, Esq., Marine Parade, Wairoa, on Friday, the 12th day of December, 1924, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

C. BLACKBURN,
Deputy Official Assignee.

5th December, 1924.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WĪ RANAPIA, of Hangaroa, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Jury-room on Monday, the 15th day of December, 1924, at 11 o’clock a.m.

C. BLACKBURN,
Deputy Official Assignee.

9th December, 1924.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that LILIAN JANE GARDINER, of Eltham, Boardinghouse-keeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of