2850
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 3rd September, 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, Invercargill, at 4 o’clock p.m., on Monday, the 26th September, 1927.

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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that area, containing approximately 150 acres (part Provisional State Forest No. 20. Block VIII, Lilburn Survey District), situated about twenty miles from Tuatapere Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 171,722, or in board feet 1,036,400, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. 5,372 35,400
Miro .. 11,305 67,100
Kahikatea 86,412 525,600
Beech .. 57,440 343,100
Totara .. 3,373 20,300
Matai .. 7,820 44,900
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Total .. 171,722 1,036,400

Upset price, £1,241.
Ground rent, £7 15s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber : Three years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fifth of the price tendered, together with half-year’s ground rent and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance of the purchase-money be paid by six equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid six 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. 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 aforementioned qualities, quantities, 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 as stated herein or in any advertisement having reference to the said timber.

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 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, Invercargill,” 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.

S. A. C. DARBY, Conservator of Forests.

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that MARY HARTIGAN, of Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, Confectioner, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 12th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 31st day of August, 1927.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALBERT EDWARD LOVETT, of Auckland, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Wednesday, the 14th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 1st day of September, 1927.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that ERNEST STRATFORD BOYLE, of Claremont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, Plasterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Thursday, the 15th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 1st day of September, 1927.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE ROBERT CULLEY, of Birkenhead, Auckland, Saddler, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 16th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 2nd day of September, 1927.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

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In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given the HELEN MCCORMACK, of 17 Khyber Pass, Auckland, Private Hotel Proprietress, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 19th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 5th day of September, 1927.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM CUMBERLAND GREEN, of Cambridge, Bootmaker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Thursday, the 15th day of September, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

J. H. ROBERTSON,
Official Assignee.

5th September, 1927.