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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date the amount (if any) already paid shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale be null and void.
Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924, and section 85 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.
Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 19th January, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 23rd February, 1927.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 23rd February, 1927, or at the local Lands Office at Timaru on Thursday, 24th February, 1927, at 1.30 o’clock p.m.; 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 local Lands Office, Timaru, on Thursday, 24th February, 1927, immediately upon 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; 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; and to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany.

SCHEDULE.

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

Waimate County.—Waimate Survey District.

Lansdown Settlement.

SECTION 7, Block X: Area, 215 acres; capital value, £3,310; half-yearly rent, £82 15s.

Weighted with £615, valuation for improvements, consisting of dwellinghouse, £200; other buildings, £180; fencing, £170; trees and shelter, £15; grass pasture, £50—to be paid in cash.

Situated four miles and a half from Waimate Railway-station, three miles and a half from Waituna School. Cream-van calls. Land is watered by water-race and water-holes, and is suitable for mixed farming. 60 acres in good pasture, balance stubble and rough feed and river-bed. 170 acres suitable for growing turnips and green feed and fair wheat and oat crops. Should carry 370 ewes.

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. Rent: 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, Christchurch.

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 10th January, 1927.

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 Friday, the 11th February, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND CONSERVATION REGION.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 633 acres, situated in Blocks VIII and X, Waipoua Survey District, being portions of Provisional State Forests Nos. 85 and 86, situated near Donnelly’s Crossing.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 611,225, or in board feet, 4,111,250, made up as follows:—

Upset price, £11,770.
Ground rent, £31 13s. per annum.
Time for removal, four years.

Terms of Payment.

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

In addition, the successful tenderer shall continue to pay such ground rent, half-yearly in advance, during the currency of the license.

Terms and Conditions.

1. All instalment-payments shall be secured by an “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 if the note is 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 aforementioned quality, quantity, and kind 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 as stated herein or in any advertisement having reference to the said timber.
4. A return, verified by affidavit, giving the number of logs cut of each species and their contents must be made quarterly by the licensee on the last days of March, June, September, and December, respectively in each year. A return, similarly verified, must be made on the same dates showing the output of sawn timber of each species. These returns may be ascertained and verified by inspection of the books of the mill, or by such other means as the Conservator may require, and for this purpose the accounts and books shall be open to the inspection of the Conservator, a Forest Ranger, or other duly authorized officer.
5. 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.
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 the timber. 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.