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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 2nd November, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 9th December, 1932.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 13th December, 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.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Mackenzie County.—Opawa Survey District.—Chamberlain Settlement.

SECTION 1, Block II: Area, 125 acres. Capital value, £750. Renewable lease, half-yearly rent, £18 15s.

Loaded with the sum of £103 for improvements, consisting of garage, cow-byre, hut, fowlhouse, and 217 chains fencing, such amount to be paid in cash.

Situated in Chamberlain Settlement on Mackenzie Pass Road, about six miles from Albury Post-office and Railway-station by fair gravelled road. Soil is mostly of poor quality resting on clay, gravel, and rock formation. Comprises a few acres of broken flat, balance steep downs and hilly and rather broken. Subdivided into four paddocks and watered by creek. Present condition: 27 acres in good pasture, 75 acres worn-out pasture, 20 acres covered with gorse and full of holes and cracks from mining operations, balance 3 acres in buildings, yards, &c. Land is suitable for grazing.

NOTE.—The coal rights in respect of the land have been disposed of separately, and full rights for the working of the same are reserved to the Crown. The lease will also be subject to the mineral restrictions imposed by section 206 of the Land Act, 1924.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch,

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 18809.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service Office,
Hokitika, 28th October, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 14th day of November, 1932.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All the milling timber on that piece of land, containing 68 acres, situated in Blocks VI and VII, Kopara Survey District, Provisional State Forest Reserves 1660 and 1575a, approximately 16 miles from Ruru Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 80,500, or in board feet 514,000, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu . . . . . . . . 63,200 401,560
Kahikatea . . . . . 17,300 112,440
———— ————
80,500 514,000

Upset price: £435.
Time for removal: Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one fourth of the upset price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany tender, and the balance be paid by three equal quarterly instalments, the first of which shall fall due three months after the date of sale.

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 may 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. 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 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 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, Hokitika,” 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.

S. A. C. DARBY, Conservator of Forests.

MAORI LAND NOTICE.

Maori Land for Sale by Public Tender.

Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 26th October, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1931, 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 Tuesday, 13th December, 1932, for the purchase of the land named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

KAWHIA COUNTY.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Block VI, Kawhia South Survey District.

SECTION 7, 545 acres 3 roods. Upset price, £292.

Heavy bush country, undulating to broken. Soil of loamy nature on limestone formation. Road access.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

1. Every tenderer to deposit along with his tender a sum equal to 5 per cent. of the price tendered, and to pay a further 5 per cent. on being declared the purchaser. The balance of the purchase-money to be paid in twenty equal half-yearly instalments.