APRIL 10.]

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 9th April, 1930.

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 28th April, 1930.

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

All the milling-timber on that area, containing approximately 207 acres (part Provisional State Forest No. 126), Section 5, Block V, Motatau Survey District, and part Section 6, Block I, Motatau Survey District, adjacent to the Otiria-Kaikohe Railway-line in the vicinity of the Ngapipito Station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 83,734, or in board feet 564,710, made up as follows :—

Species....Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Kauri.....17,592 117,193
Rimu......46,748 314,795
Kahikatea...2,913 20,122
Totara....13,803 94,843
Miro......1,805 11,824
Matai......873 5,933
Total......83,734 564,710

Upset price : £1,170.
Ground rent : £10.
Time for removal of timber : Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixth of the purchase-money, together with £1 Is. (license fee), must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by five 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 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. 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 above-mentioned 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 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. These returns may be ascertained and verified by the 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 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.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that Eva Blundell Calshaw Hodgson, Married Woman, of Auckland, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be helden at my office on Friday, the 11th day of April, 1930, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 5th day of April, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that August Samvel Hodgson, Chemist, of Mount Albert, Auckland, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday, the 11th day of April, 1930, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 5th day of April, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that William Eric Cox, of Whitiora, Hamilton, Grocer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Monday, the 7th day of April, 1930, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 2nd day of April, 1930.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that Mary Dorothy Dunne, of Auckland, a Married Woman possessed of separate estate, a Bankrupt.

TAKE notice that by order of the Supreme Court on the 28th February, 1930, on the application of the above-named bankrupt, it was ordered that the order of adjudication dated the 31st day of January, 1930, against her be annulled.

Dated at Auckland, this 7th day of April, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that A. Bullymore, of “The Midland,” Taumarunui, Boardinghouse Proprietor, was adjudged bankrupt on a creditor's petition on Friday,