May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1573

Settlement Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 18th May, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 14th July, 1925.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 16th July, 1925; 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.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them, to landless applicants who within two years immediately preceding date of ballot have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully, to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force, and to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war if such persons immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Southland County. — New River Hundred. — Monte Christo Settlement.

SECTION 2s, Block XXII: Area, 114 acres 1 rood 15 perches; capital value, £1,430; half-yearly rent, £32 3s. 6d.

Weighted with £970, valuation for new five-roomed semi-bungalow dwellinghouse, all conveniences, five-stall stable, chaff-house, milking-shed, power-pump, water-tank, &c.

Situated three miles from Wright’s Bush Railway-station, School, and Dairy Factory. Good metal road. Suitable for dairying. Land will grow good crops of grain or green feed.

Full particulars may be had on application to this office.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Auction.—Westland Forest-conservation Region.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 11th May, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned timber will be offered for sale by public auction at the office of the State Forest Service, Hokitika, at 11 o’clock a.m., on Friday, the 19th day of June, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 395 acres, situated in Blocks VI and X, Mawheraiti Survey District, portion of Provisional State Forest Reserve No. 1594, situated about five miles from Ikamatua Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in superficial feet is 3,486,000, being 1,391,000 kahikatea, 1,906,000 rimu, and 189,000 matai.

Upset price: £3,179.

Ground rent: £19 15s. per annum.

Time for removal of timber: Four years.

Further blocks of residual tributary timber in the Provisional State Forest mentioned will be selected at appropriate times and offered for sale by public auction as occasion warrants.

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 be paid on the fall of the hammer and the balance by nine equal quarterly instalments; the first of which shall be paid on the 1st day of March, 1926.

The ground rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance during the currency of the license.

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 buyers is drawn to the fact that the local controlling body may require the purchaser 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 buyers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relative to the sale.

5. The timber described is submitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the bid 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 before the date of sale.

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

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.

A. D. McGAVOCK, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE SOSICH, of Manga-wai, Storekeeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 13th day of May, 1925, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

6th May, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM VICTOR HARDWICK, of Papakura, Boot-retailer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 18th day of May, 1925, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

12th May, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ROPITINI MATAWHIU, of Omaramutu, near Opotiki, Aboriginal Native, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Opotiki, on Friday, the 22nd day of May, 1925, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

15th May, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that STANLEY HARTNELL, of Thames, General Storekeeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 22nd day of May, 1925, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

15th May, 1925.