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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

6. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality
   and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters
   relative to the cutting rights.
7. Each tenderer must state the royalty that he is prepared
   to pay for each separate class. The highest or any tender
   will not necessarily be accepted, and the rights described are
   submitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the
   tender by the Minister of Lands.
8. The grantee will have no right to transfer, sublet, or
   otherwise dispose of his rights without permission of the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands, and must exercise personal
   control and supervision to the satisfaction of the Commissioner
   of Crown Lands.
9. The grantee will be allowed to employ any number of
   workmen and will be responsible for the payment of wages, &c.
   No responsibility will be taken by the Crown. Returns of
   men employed to be furnished each month.
10. The grantee will be required to keep a record of all
    sales and to advise the Commissioner of Crown Lands of all
    contracts entered into for the purchase of sleepers, posts, &c.
11. The grantee will be required to keep a record in duplicate
    of all posts, sleepers, &c., cut, and shall forward one copy of
    such record to the Commissioner of Crown Lands at the end
    of each month. Such records shall be open for inspection at
    all reasonable times and places by the Commissioner of Crown
    Lands or any officer appointed by him.
12. No fires are to be lit on the block without permission
    in writing being obtained.
13. Only dead timber standing or fallen is to be taken and
    no green timber is to be cut for any purpose whatever.
14. Tenders should be enclosed in envelopes addressed
    “Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland,” and endorsed
    “Tender for Post Splitting, Hukui Block.”

Further particulars as to the general locality and situation
of the block may be obtained on application to Field In-
spector Galvin, Box 207, Hamilton; Field Inspector Smith,
Box 87, Rotorua; or the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 8/1/19.)

Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 2nd September, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on
deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, on Monday, 6th October, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.,
under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Rural Land.

SECTION 199, Block IX, Oreti Hundred : Area, 22 acres 3 roods
20 perches. Upset price, £115.
Situated about a mile north of Drummond Township. All
level land, with the gravel close to the surface.

Terms of Sale.

Cash : One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the
fall of the hammer, and the balance, with certificate-of-title
fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter.

Deferred Payments : The deposit of £5, together with £1 1s.
(license fee), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
Balance of the purchase-money, with interest thereon at the
rate of 5½ per cent. per annum, to be paid by instalments
extending over the period of 34½ years.
The licensee shall have the right at any time during the
currency of his license to pay off either the whole of the
purchase-money or any half-yearly instalment or instalments
thereof then remaining unpaid.
Upon receipt of the final instalment a certificate of title in
respect of the land purchased shall issue upon payment of
the prescribed certificate-of-title fee.
If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed pay-
ments by due date the amount 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.
Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

J. MACDONALD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2467.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Nelson, 3rd September, 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, Nelson, at
4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 26th day of September, 1930.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON - MARLBOROUGH FOREST - CONSERVATION REGION.—
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on the area, containing approximately
140 acres, situated in Block II, Mawheraiti Survey District
(Provisional State Forest No. 129), about four miles from the
Reefton–Greymouth railway.
The estimated quantity in cubic feet is 125,980; in board
feet 798,950; made up as follows:—

Upset price: £600.
Ground rent: £7 per annum.
Time for removal of timber: One year and a half.

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 five equal instalments, due three, six,
eight, ten, and twelve months respectively 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 “on
   demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satis-
   faction 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 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 en-
   titled 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. 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.
5. 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
   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 pre-
   pared to pay for each species. The highest or any tender will
   not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is sub-
   mitted 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.