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10. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improve-
    ments; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, the
    new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be
    subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for
    buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee
    with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and
    buildings revert to the Crown without compensation.
11. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
12. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
13. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be
    paid on rent in arrear.

Sale plans, form of lease, and full particulars may be
obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, North
Auckland.

H. J. LOWE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Land in the Nelson-Marlborough Forest conservation Region acquired as a Permanent State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 12th July, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the
Schedule hereto was acquired as a permanent State
forest on the 4th June, 1926. The land was donated to the
Crown by Arthur McKee, Esq., of Tasman, Nelson.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON-MARLBOROUGH FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
State Forest No. 180.
ALL that area of land containing by admeasurement 5 acres
more or less, being part Section 83, Block XII, Motueka
Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate
of title, Volume 53, folio 282 (Nelson). As the same is more
particularly delineated on plan No. 102/1, deposited in the
Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon
bordered red.

E. PHILLIPS TURNER,
Secretary of Forests.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender, Auckland Conservation Region.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 15th July, 1926.

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 17th August, 1926.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND
DISTRICT.
ALL the milling-timber on the piece of land, containing 415
acres, situated in Provincial State Forest No. 99, Block IX,
Puketapu Survey District, and situated about sixteen miles
from Taumarunui.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that FREDERICK ARTHUR FULTON,
of Tatuanui, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at
the Courthouse, Morrinsville, on Monday, the 26th day of
July, 1926, at 10 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
14th July, 1926. Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that DAVID CREIGHTON, of
161 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, Confectioner and
Tea-room Proprietor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and
I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my
office on Wednesday, the 28th day of July, 1926, at 11 o'clock
a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
16th July, 1926. Official Assignee.

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The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 223,877; or in
feet board measure 1,527,767, made up as follows:—

Terms and Payment.
Upset price, £4,040.
Ground rent, £20 15s. per annum.
Time for removal, four years.

A marked cheque for one-fourth 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
three equal annual instalments, the first to be paid one year
from date of sale.
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 satis-
   faction 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 pre-
   pared 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,
   they 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.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that PERCY ALLEN, of New
Plymouth, Plumber, was this day adjudged bankrupt;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden
at my office on Monday, the 26th day of July, 1926, at
2.30 o'clock p.m.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
15th July, 1926. Deputy Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts
and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned
estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon,
have been duly filed in the above Court, and I hereby further
give notice that at the next sitting of the said Court, to be
holden on Tuesday, the 10th day of August, 1926, or as soon
thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply