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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 19th September, 1928.

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, Palmerston North, at 4 o'clock p.m., on Monday, 8th October, 1928.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION, WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that milling-timber on those areas, containing approximately 314 acres, situated in Blocks XII, Kaitieke, and IX, Tongariro Survey Districts (Provisional State Forest No. 67), about three miles from Raurimu Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 677,510 or in board feet 4,537,000, made up as follows:

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. 258,997 1,790,544
Miro .. .. 99,262 624,841
Kahikatea .. .. 37,634 252,406
Matai .. .. 245,816 1,640,779
Totara .. .. 26,301 172,800
Maire .. .. 9,500 55,630

Totals .. .. 677,510 4,537,000

Upset price : £10,545.
Ground rent : £15 14s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber : Five years.

Situated on the blocks are 103 chains of tram-line and 42 chains of tram formation, valued at £1,145, which must be paid for in cash by the successful tenderer.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-eighteenth of the price tendered, together with half-year's ground rent and £1 ls. (license fee), must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by seventeen equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid three months after the date of sale.

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

Terms of Sale.

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 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. The above-mentioned 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. 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.

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

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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, Palmerston North,” 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.

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.

MAORI LAND NOTICES.

Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, 8th September, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations thereunder, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 19th October, 1928, for the lease of the land named in the Schedule hereto, for a term of fifteen years, with a right of renewal for a further term of fourteen years.

SCHEDULE.

WAITOMO COUNTY.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

KINOHAKU East 10B, Section 2, Blocks VIII and XII, Maungamangero Survey District : Area, 269 acres 3 roods 32 perches. Upset annual rental, £27.

Loaded with the sum of £935 for improvements, for the payment of which terms may be arranged.

Situated about five miles from Piopio; 200 acres of bush have been felled and grassed, and of this one-third has reverted to fern; 30 acres open country have been grassed, of this 12 acres have reverted to fern; balance of 39½ acres standing bush.

The improvements consist of a four-roomed dwelling with bath-room and wash-house, milking-shed, and garage, and about 300 chains fencing (in poor condition). The carrying-capacity is estimated at 250 ewes and 50 head of cattle.

The soil generally is good, but the section has been badly farmed.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of the lease shall be fifteen years from the 1st November, 1928, at the rental tendered, with right of renewal for one further term of fourteen years, at a rental assessed at 5 per cent. on the unimproved value of the land at the time of the renewal; such valuation, in the event of a dispute, to be determined by arbitration. Compensation for substantial improvements shall be allowed to the lessee at the expiration of the second term of the lease, as provided in section 263 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

2. Residence to commence within four years in bush lands or swamp lands, and within one year in open or partly open lands, and to be continuous for six years.

3. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, roadmaking, or building purposes.

4. Every lessee shall bring into cultivation,—

(a) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;

(b) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;

(c) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;

and shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character (as defined by the Land Act, 1908) on first-class land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land, and on second-class land to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land: Provided that in no case shall the additional improvements required on second-class land be more than 10s. per acre, or 2s. 6d. on third-class land.

5. (a) Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.