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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

amount of fern on the section, which when cleared will make a good sheep proposition.
Section 9s: Area, 427 acres. Capital value, £3,050; £200. Half-yearly rent, £76 5s.; £10 2s.†
Building.
† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on building, consisting of a six-roomed dwelling, valued at £200, which amount is payable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly payments of £10 2s. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £86 7s.
Improvements included in the capital value comprise 402 acres felling and grassing, 450 chains fencing, cow-shed, yards, and pig-sties.
This section is situated about four miles from the Kohuratahi Railway-station and half a mile from Kohuratahi School. It is well watered by running streams. There are about 50 acres of good-quality flat land on the section, very suitable for dairying. The balance is suitable for sheep and dry stock.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.
Settlement Land.

1. Term of lease: thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years, and a right to acquire the freehold.
2. Rental: 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.
4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory declaration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee), and a half-year’s rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable.
5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.
6. No person may hold more than one allotment.
7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
8. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
9. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
    Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Plymouth.
    W. D. ARMIT,
    Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 1st December, 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 Monday, the 20th December, 1926.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All the milling-timber on that area containing approximately 118 acres (part State Forest No. 1, Block XIII, Takahue Survey District), situated about five miles from Herekino.
The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 37,473, or in board feet 281,074, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Matai 3,360 22,081
Kauri 22,905 183,244
Totara 4,202 27,131
Kahikatea 7,006 48,618

Total 37,473 281,074

Upset price: £1,130.
Ground rent: £2 10s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber: One year.

Terms of Payment.
A marked cheque for one-third of the price tendered, together with half-year’s ground rent and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by two equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid three months after the date of sale.

Terms of Sale.

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. In addition the successful tenderer shall continue to pay such ground rent half-yearly in advance during the currency of the license.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The above-mentioned quantities, qualities, and kinds as to the said timber shall be taken as sufficiently accurate for the purposes of this sale, and no contract for the purchase shall be voidable, nor shall the successful purchaser be entitled to any abatement in price, by reason of the said timber being of less quantity, quality, or kind than as stated herein or in any advertisement having reference to the said timber.
6. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relative to the sale.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. If no tender is accepted for the timber herein mentioned it will remain open for application at the upset price until further notice.
10. 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.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 1st December, 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, Rotorua, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 12th January, 1927.

SCHEDULE.
ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Lot 1.

All the milling-timbers on that parcel of land, containing approximately 558 acres, situated five miles and a half from Mamaku by road in Blocks V and VI, Horohoro Survey District (part of Provisional State Forest No. 24). The estimated quantity of timber in feet, board measure, is 3,932,235 or in cubic feet, 572,854, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu 509,427 3,506,626
Miro 49,407 328,498
Matai 966 6,761
Kahikatea 8,139 57,008
Totara 4,915 33,342

                  572,854          3,932,235

Upset price: £6,012.
Annual ground rent: £27 18s.
Time for removal of timber: Two years and a half.