JULY 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2135

Loaded with £260 for improvements (enumerated hereunder)
to be repaid in cash or by a cash deposit of £90 and the
balance, £170, by forty-two half-yearly instalments of
£6 12s. 8d. each in advance.

Situated about eleven miles from Timaru Post-office, four
miles from Claremont School by medium to good metalled road,
and eight miles from Holme Station Saleyards. The property
is subdivided into eighteen paddocks by mixed gorse-and-wire
fences mostly in poor condition. Approximately 218 acres
is in native tussock, the balance being in old pasture with a
considerable amount of twitch and brown-top. The tussock
area is steep and rocky with a southerly aspect, the balance
being easy downs somewhat broken by gullies and rock
outcrops, watered by dams and waterholes.

Estimated carrying capacity 400 ewes with green feed.
Approximately 225 acres suitable for cultivation for horse-feed,
green feed, and roots. The improvements to be paid for as
above comprise an old wooden dwelling, scrim-and-paper
lined, with a No. 1 Shacklock range, no conveniences ; wooden
stable, rough iron and wooden fowlhouse, pigsty, and cowshed,
and certain fencing. The balance of the fencing valued at
£115 11s. is included in the rental value of the property.

Sections 2 and 1B, Blocks XIV and XV : Area, 470 acres
3 roods (subject to survey). Capital value, £3,920 ; half-
yearly rental, £98.

Loaded with improvements (enumerated hereunder) valued
at £605 to be repaid in cash or by a cash deposit of £55, the
balance of £550 to be secured by a first-instalment mortgage
to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of thirty
years at 6 per cent. The half-yearly instalments of principal
and interest will be £19 17s. 5d., subject to rebate for prompt
payment.

Adjoins the property referred to above and is subdivided
into eleven paddocks by mixed gorse-and-wire fences mostly
in poor condition. Area is watered by dams and waterholes
and comprises approximately 212 acres of native tussock,
the balance being in old pasture, twitch, and brown-top. The
tussock area although steep and rocky has a westerly aspect
and is good safe grazing. The balance is comprised of flat
tops and easy downs, fairly broken, with gullies and rock
outcrops. Estimated carrying capacity 500 ewes and a few
cattle with winter feed. About 206 acres are suitable for
cultivation for horse-feed, green feed, and roots.

The improvements comprise a good wooden dwelling of
four rooms with hall and pantry, plaster-board lined and
papered; wooden stable, chaff-house and implement-shed;
wooden leanto cowshed, washhouse, dairy, concrete under-
ground tank and pump, and certain fencing. The balance of
the fencing and two dams valued at £85 9s. are included in
the rental value of the property.

Special Note.--After payment of the first half-year's rent,
fees, and other deposits a remission of two years' rent will be
granted to each of the successful applicants provided improve-
ments to fencing, buildings, and pasture are carried out to the
satisfaction of the Land Board to a value at least equivalent
to the amount of rent so remitted ; such improvements must
be effected within two years from date of selection.

For any further information required apply to--

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 19434.)

Land in Otago Land District, Otago Mining District, for
Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 10th July, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
are open for selection on renewable lease under the
Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o'clock
p.m. on Monday, 6th August, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday,
8th August, 1934, at 10.30 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.

The land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land
Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under
the surface shall pertain to the lessees whose rights shall be
to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.--OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.--THIRD-
CLASS LAND.

Borough of Arrowtown.—Town of Arrowtown Extension.
SECTION 1, Block XXXV : Area, 4 acres 2 roods 16 perches.
Capital value, £12 10s.; half-yearly rent, 5s.
Section 2, Block XXXV : Area, 4 acres 2 roods 38 perches.
Capital value, £12 10s.; half-yearly rent, 5s.
Section 2 is weighted with £9 (payable in cash) for im-
provements, comprising a hut.

The sections are situated on the banks of the Arrow River,
about three miles from Arrowtown Post-office and School by
good road. The sections are broken, with rocky outcrops,
and the soil is of a schisty loam resting on a gravel formation.

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

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(I. and S. 9/1306.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 6th July, 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 6th day of August,
1934.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON
LAND DISTRICT..

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing
201 acres, situated in Blocks VI and X, Mikimiki Survey
District, Provisional State Forest No. 82, about fourteen miles
from Masterton.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is
161,570, or in board feet 1,109,300, made up as follows :-

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. 126,162 867,800
Miro .. .. 8,302 55,600
Kahikatea .. .. 9,983 69,000
Matai .. .. 4,555 31,400
Totara .. .. 877 6,100
Red beech .. .. 10,927 74,500
Silver beech .. .. 764 4,900

Upset Price : £1,442.
Time for removal : Three years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for 10 per cent. of the amount tendered,
together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender,
and the balance be paid in twenty-six equal monthly pay-
ments, the first falling due six 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 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 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 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. 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,