SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Egmont County.—Cape Survey District.

NATIVE LAND SETTLEMENT ACCOUNT.

(Exempt from the payment of rent for three years.)

SECTIONS 13 and 22, Block XIII: Area, 214 acres 3 roods 32 perches. Capital value, £215. Half-yearly rent, £5 7s. 6d.

(Exempt from the payment of rent for five years.)

Section 23, Block XIII: Area, 172 acres 1 rood 19 perches. Capital value, £270. Half-yearly rent, £6 15s.

Sections 13 and 22 : Dairying and grazing property on the Parihaka Road, about two miles and a half by metalled road from Pungarehu Township, school, and factory, and fifteen miles from Opunake Railway-station. Approximately 215 acres easy to rolling country; balance stony hills. Property generally in an unproductive state, with fair amount of blackberry and ragwort. Pastures are run out and require renewing. Subdivided into eight paddocks. Watered by stream.

Exempt from payment of rent for three years provided improvements to the value of £22 are effected annually during the exemption period. Loaded with £860, for improvements comprising six-roomed house (good order), garage, six-bail cow-shed and separator-room, 150 chains fencing (fair order), and felling and grassing; payable by £40 cash; balance (£820) on instalment mortgage for thirty-four years and a half; interest 5½ per cent. to a civilian, 5 per cent. to a discharged soldier.

Section 23: Dairying and grazing property on the Parihaka Road, about three miles and a half (one mile unmetalled, remainder metalled), from Pungarehu Township, school, and factory, and sixteen miles from Opunake Railway-station. Easy to undulating country. About 40 acres has been felled and grassed, now reverted to scrub, with blackberry and ragwort. Watered by streams.

Exempt from payment of rent for five years provided improvements to the value of £27 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Special condition.—No timber or firewood is to be sold or removed from the areas without the prior written consent of the Land Board. All proceeds from any approved sale of timber or firewood are to be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, New Plymouth, and shall be disbursed as directed by the Taranaki Land Board.

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

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 26/19365.)

Pastoral Run in the Marlborough Land District, for License.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Blenheim, 17th May, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be opened for license in terms of the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, 12th July, 1932.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 14th July, 1932, at 10 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.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Marlborough County.—Avon and Hodder Survey Districts.

RUN 110: Area, 14,000 acres. Annual rental: For first five years, £25; for next five years, £50; for balance of term, £75.

Term of license: Twenty-one years.

Weighted with £306, for improvements consisting of one mile and a half of subdivisional fencing and half value of seven miles and a half of boundary fencing. This sum is payable in cash.

The run is situated about twenty miles from Blenheim. Access by good metalled road for about seventeen miles, balance by unformed road either up the Omaka River or first along legal right-of-way through the Tyntesfield Estate, then up the Omaka River by bridle-track.

Altitude from 500 ft. to 6,000 ft. The lower portions of the spurs and valleys contain fair summer feed, chiefly tussock and native grasses, with a sprinkling of cocksfoot and clover; the balance is high, barren country. The improvements which go with run consist of fencing valued at £105.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 8/6/49.)
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STATE FOREST SERVICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 18th May, 1932.

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 Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 1932.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 310 acres, situated in Block VIII, Manganui Survey District, being Lot 3 in Provisional State Forest No. 67, situated about two miles from Erua Railway-station. The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 535,800, or in board feet, 3,609,100, made up as follows :

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu ... 270,950 1,859,900
Miro ... 131,650 845,600
Kahikatea ... 43,760 301,300
Matai ... 31,040 207,100
Totara ... 58,400 395,200

Totals ... 535,800 3,609,100

Upset price : £5,283.
Time for removal : Five years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fourteenth of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by fifty-four equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be made three months after the date of sale.

Terms and Conditions.

1. All instalment-payments shall be secured by an “on demand” promissory note 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 if the note is 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. 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.

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 the timber. 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.