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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

Lot 2, Land Transfer Plan 2676, being Part Section 1, Block III, Tuturau District. Area: 2 acres 0 roods 30 perches. Upset annual rental, £3 15s.

Weighted with £10, valuation for fencing, payable in cash.

Situated within a mile from Town of Mataura Railway-station, Post-office, and School.

Part Section 9B, Block XII, Invercargill Hundred: Area, 18 acres. Upset annual rental, £3 12s.

Weighted with £10, valuation for fencing, payable in cash.

Situated about fourteen miles from Invercargill and half a mile from Grove Bush Post-office and School by good metalled road. Suitable for grazing.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on day of sale, except in case of Lot 2, being part Section 1, Block III, Tuturau District, when possession will be given on 1st May, 1928.

2. The term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal at rentals based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies Leases Act, 1908.

3. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and rent for the broken period, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.) to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance on 1st day of January and 1st July in each year.

5. No assignment, sublease, mortgage, or other disposition without consent of Land Board.

6. Interest at rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrears.

7. Consent of Land Board to be obtained before subdividing, erecting any buildings, or effecting other improvements.

8. Lease will be registered under Land Transfer Act.

9. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves in the Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 6th December, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 11th day of January, 1928, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and Public Bodies Leases Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 20, Block XV, Pakawau Survey District: Area, 15 acres. Upset annual rental, 18s.

Section 26, Block XV, Pakawau Survey District: Area, 37 acres. Upset annual rental, 10s.

Both sections are situated on the sea-coast between Parapara and Collingwood. Access from Collingwood about one mile and a half distant. The greater part of these sections are flat and terrace land running into pakihi sidings. Soil of very poor quality resting on ironstone formation.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. The highest bidder shall be the purchaser.

2. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, rent for broken period from date of sale to 30th June, 1928, and £2 2s. (lease fee) is payable on the fall of the hammer.

3. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years.

4. Rent for renewed lease to be assessed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands or his agent.

5. If the lessee declines to accept a renewal at the rate offered rental for the renewed lease shall be determined by arbitration in accordance with the provisions contained in the Public Bodies Leases Act, 1908.

6. No improvements to be effected without the consent of the Land Board first had and obtained.

7. Lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all noxious weeds now growing upon the said land.

8. Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each and every year.

9. A penalty of 10 per cent. shall be added to all rent in arrear for a space of more than thirty days.

10. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Further particulars may be had on application to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 7th December, 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 Wednesday, the 21st December, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that area, containing approximately 178 acres (part Provisional State Forest No. 51. Block VII, Aparima Hundred), situated about six miles from Otatau Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 176,032, or in board feet 1,119,100, made up as follows:—

Upset price, £760.

Ground rent, £8 18s. per annum.

Time for removal of timber: Three years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixth 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 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. 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.