Mar. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 597

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Pohangina County.—Umutoi Survey District.

SECTION 32 and part Section 29, Block X: Area, 574 acres 3 roods 24 perches. Capital value, £440. Deposit on deferred payments, £20; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £13 13s. Renewable lease: half-yearly rent, £8 16s. Weighted with £1,560 for improvements, consisting of 400 acres felled and grassed, 50 chains boundary-fencing, 150 chains road-fencing, 180 chains internal fencing, shed, cow-byre, dwelling, and outbuildings. Of this sum £1,430 may be paid in cash or may be secured by mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, payable over a period of thirty years, interest at 6 per cent. per annum, and the balance, £130, is to be paid in cash.

A grazing property, subdivided into five paddocks, situated on the Apiti-Norsewood Road, two miles and a half from Umutoi Post-office and School, thirty-two miles from Ashhurst Railway-station, and thirteen miles from Apiti Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access is from Apiti which is thirteen miles distant by metalled road. Dairying in a small way is being engaged in on land of similar quality in the locality. The section comprises hilly to broken land of which about 30 acres are ploughable when stumped. Approximately 400 acres in surface-sown grass in poor sole; while the balance is in its natural state. The soil is of light loam, resting on sandstone and papa formation; watered by springs and small streams.

Application forms and any further information desired may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/17134.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Nelson, 12th March, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at this office at 4 p.m. on Monday, the 26th day of March, 1934.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON—MARLBOROUGH CONSERVATION REGION.—MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 119 acres, situated in Block XIII, Wakamarina Survey District, Provisional State Forest No. 125, about ten miles from Canvastown.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 133,785, or in board feet 900,900, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. 110,811 749,500
Kahikatea .. 5,993 40,675
Matai .. .. 9,174 61,625
Miro .. .. 7,807 49,100
—————— ——————
133,785 900,900

Upset Price: £765.
Time for Removal: Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £100, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany tender, and the balance be paid in six equal quarterly payments, the first falling 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 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 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 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 also 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, Nelson,” 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.

F. W. FOSTER, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend is now payable in the undermentioned estate on all proved claims; promissory notes (if any) to be produced for endorsement prior to receiving dividends:—

John Fisher Skipper (deceased), late of Matata, Farmer—Fourth and final dividend of 2s. in the pound, making in all 20s. in the pound.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland.
10th March, 1934.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that DOUGLAS MURRAY COWAN, of Collingwood Street, Hamilton, Radio-dealer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 19th day of March, 1934, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 9th day of March, 1934.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE PICKERING, of Gordon, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Te Aroha, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, 1934, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 9th day of March, 1934.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.