Mar. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 647

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Retaruke Survey District.

Section 3, Block XII: Area, 1,149 acres. Capital value, £285. Deposit on deferred payments, £15: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £8 15s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 14s.

Weighted with the sum of £700 for improvements, consisting of felling and grassing, stumping, dwelling, wool-shed, dairy, cow-shed, sheep-yards, bridge, fencing, and orchard. This sum may be paid in cash or may be secured to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, by mortgage payable over a period of thirty years, interest 6 per cent. per annum.

Situated on the right bank of the Retaruke River, twenty-one miles from Raurimu Railway-station by metalled road.

Approximately 150 acres in grass, 600 acres reverted to fern and second-growth, and balance in standing bush comprising rimu, matai, and birch on the ridges. Altitude, 900 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level. The section, which is permanently watered by streams, comprises 200 acres easy undulating country, balance broken and hilly.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Momahaki Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.*)

SECTION 5, Block IX: Area, 884 acres 1 rood 21 perches. Capital value, £220; half-yearly rent, £4 8s.

• Exempt from payment of rent for two years conditional upon improvements to at least the value of the amount so remitted being carried out during exemption period.

Weighted with £800 for improvements, consisting of felling and grassing, stumping, fencing, dwelling, yards, sheep-dip, and orchard. This amount may be paid in cash, or, after the payment of a deposit of £30, the balance may be secured to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, by mortgage payable over a period of thirty-six years and a half, interest at 5½ per cent. per annum.

A grazing property, subdivided into three paddocks, situated on the Upper Waitotara Valley Road, about twenty-four miles by metalled road from Waitotara Post-office and Railway-station. Saleyards are at Waverley, thirty miles distant, and school is three miles away. Cream collected if required.

The property comprises broken, steep hill country, with some easy valleys and hills. Small area flat at homestead. Some 340 acres have been felled (5 acres stumped) and grassed (now deteriorated). About one-quarter acre in orchard and 545 acres in natural state. The soil is medium quality resting on sandstone, papa, clay, and gravel formation; watered by streams and springs.

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. 9/3020.)

Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 5th March, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is 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, 8th April, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 10th April, 1935, 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.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Catlins Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for four years.*)

SECTION 28, Block VIII: Area, 198 acres 3 roods 28 perches. Capital value, £50; half-yearly rent, £1.

Weighted with £85 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising dwelling and grassing.

The property is situated three miles and a quarter from Owaka Post-office and Railway-station. Access is by formed and partly metalled road from Owaka. The land comprises poor bush country with exception of 15 acres in grass, now reverting to second growth.

• Special conditions.—After payment of first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and valuation for improvements, no further rent will be charged for four years.

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

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/3027.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Auction.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 6th March, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned timber will be disposed of by public auction at the office of the State Forest Service, Palmerston North, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

THE milling-trees on that area containing approximately 54¾ acres, in Block XIV, Pohui Survey District (State Forest No. 94), about forty miles from Hastings Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 538,657, or in board feet 3,658,400, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £6,154.

Time for removal of timber: Three years and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-tenth of the purchase-price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance by nine quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid 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 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 buyers is drawn to the fact that the local controlling body may require the successful bidder 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.