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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Waimarino County.—Ohakune Township.
Section 34, Block XX: Area, 35·2 perches. Upset annual rental, £1 10s.
Term of lease: Twenty-one years.
Weighted with the sum of £17, for improvements consisting of stumping, fencing, and shelter trees. This sum is payable in cash.
Situated in the Borough of Ohakune, with frontage to Mangawhero Terrace. Level section, stumped and cleared.
Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.
H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 20/227.)

Notifying Tidal Land in the Nelson Land District for Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 10th November, 1931.
NOTICE is hereby given that applications for the right to lease and reclaim the undermentioned land will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 8th day of December, 1931.
Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on 10th December, 1931, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.
The land will be leased in accordance with the provisions of section 146 of the Harbours Act, 1923, and the regulations made thereunder, dated 7th day of May, 1930.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMEA COUNTY.—KAITERITERI SURVEY DISTRICT (KAITERITERI INLET).
Section 6, Block XII: Area, 69 acres (approx.). Annual rental, 1s. per acre.
Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.
A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 26/16188.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.
Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.
State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 10th November, 1931.
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 Thursday, the 26th day of November, 1931.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
All the milling-timber specified on that area, containing approximately 52 acres, situated in Block VII, Miki Miki Survey District (P.S.F. No. 82), about fifteen miles from Masterton, on the Kiriwhakapapa Road.
The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 71,444, in board feet 419,187; made up as follows:—

Species. Board Ft. Cubic Ft.
Rimu .. .. .. 375,305 62,281
Miro .. .. .. 15,512 5,170
Red beech .. .. .. 28,370 34993

Totals .. .. .. 419,187 71,444

Upset Price: £545.
Ground rent: £2 12s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber: Two years.

Terms of Payment.
A marked cheque for one-tenth of the purchase-money, together with ground rent (£1 6s.) and license fee (£1 1s.), must accompany tender, and the balance be paid in nine equal instalments, the first of which shall be paid one month after the date of sale and the others at monthly intervals thereafter.

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 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.
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, 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 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 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 NOTICE.
Tenders for lease of Lands.
NOTICE is hereby given, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the office of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, Rotorua, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 16th December, 1931, for the lease of the lands described in the First Schedule hereto, on the terms and conditions set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
ROTORUA TOWN SECTIONS.
Block LXIX, Town of Rotorua.