JULY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1865

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 70,478, or in board feet 422,200, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. .. 67,012 403,100
Miro .. .. .. 3,466 19,100

Upset price, £396. Ground rent, £1 3s. 3d. Time for removal, nine months.

Lot 2.

All the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 273 acres, situated in Blocks XII and XV, Mawheranui Survey District, portions of Provisional State Forest Reserves 1701 and 1707, situated about eight miles and a half from Ngahere Railway-station on the Greymouth—Reefton Railway-line.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 349,276, or in board feet 2,201,200, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Kahikatea .. .. .. 132,777 828,880
Rimu .. .. .. 185,347 1,189,420
Miro .. .. .. 31,152 182,900

Upset price, £2,564. Ground rent, £13 13s. per annum. Time for removal, two years and a half.

Lot 3.

All the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 234 acres, situated in Block XVI, Greymouth Survey District, portion of Provisional State Forest Reserve 1659, situated about two miles from South Beach Railway-station on the Hokitika—Greymouth Railway-line.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 289,551, or in board feet 1,925,500, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Kahikatea .. .. .. 32,643 215,300
Rimu .. .. .. 198,970 1,342,600
Miro .. .. .. 57,938 367,600

Upset price, £2,078. Ground rent, £11 14s. per annum. Time for removal, three years.

Lot 4.

All the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 105 acres, situated in Block II, Kopara Survey District, portion of Provisional State Forest Reserve 1660. Situated eleven miles from Ruru Railway-station on the Greymouth—Otira Railway-line.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 144,312 of rimu (861,100 board feet).

Upset price, £785. Ground rent, £3 18s. 9d. Time for removal, nine months.

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

TERMS OF PAYMENT.

Lot 1.—A marked cheque for one-half of the purchase-money, together with ground rent and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid three months after the date of sale.

Lot 2.—A marked cheque for one-eighth 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 six equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid three months after the date of sale.

Lot 3.—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 eight equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid six months after the date of sale.

Lot 4.—A marked cheque for one-half of the purchase-money, together with ground rent and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid three 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 the rate of 1 per cent. per annum in excess of current bank overdraft 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 lots 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, Hokitika,” 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.

A. D. MCGAVOCK, Conservator of Forests.

Land in Canterbury-Otago Forest-conservation Region acquired as a Permanent State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 18th June, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto was acquired as a permanent State forest on the 29th March, 1926.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY-OTAGO FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

State Forest No. 91 (Balmoral Plantation Extension).

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 8,608 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV, Mandamus Survey District, being Lot 10, 4,125 acres, certificate of title, Volume 282, folio 146 (Canterbury), and part Lot 9, 4,483 acres, certificate of title, Volume 377, folio 83 (Canterbury). Bounded generally as follows: Towards the north and east by a road; towards the south-east by the Christchurch—Culverden Railway; and towards the south-west and west by the Hurunui River. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 128/2, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

E. PHILLIPS TURNER,
Secretary of Forestry.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that PERCY MICHAEL MILLS, of Waipapakauri, Hotelkeeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors at be held at my office on Friday, the 9th day of July, 1926, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

25th June, 1926.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that R. J. WILLIAMS, of 34 Tranmere Road, Edendale, Drainage Contractor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday the 13th day of July, 1926, at 11 o’clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

25th June, 1926.