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6. Intending buyers are expected to visit the locality
   and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters
   relative to the sale.
7. The timber described is submitted for sale subject to the
   final acceptance of the highest bid 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
   before the date of sale.
9. If no bid is accepted for the timber herein mentioned
   it will remain open for application at the upset price until
   further notice.

The conditions, which will be inserted in the license to be
issued to the purchaser, and further particulars may be ob-
tained on application to the undersigned or to the Director
of Forestry, Wellington.

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 1st March, 1935.

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 Friday, the 12th day of April,
1935.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON
LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing
211 acres, more or less situated in Block VI and VII, Tonga-
riro Survey District, Provisional State Forest No. 42, about
eighteen miles from National Park Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is
400,314, or in board feet 2,659,300, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. 80,756 524,800
Miro .. 23,896 158,700
Kahikatea .. 4,966 33,900
Matai .. 166,769 1,097,300
Totara .. 123,927 844,600
———————— ————————
400,314 2,659,300

Upset price : £5,294.
Time for removal : Two years and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixth of the amount tendered,
together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender,
and the balance be paid in five 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 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,
   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 Con-
   servator 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 pre-
   pared to pay for the timber. The highest or any tender will
   not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is sub-
   mitted 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.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that LESLIE WALTHAM BUTLER,
of Royal Oak Pharmacy, Onehunga, Pharmaceutical
Chemist, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby
summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office,
Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, on Monday,
the 4th day of March, 1935, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 26th day of February, 1935.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ELWYN PATRICK KEEGAN,
of Thames, Mechanic, was this day adjudged bankrupt ;
and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at
the Courthouse, Thames, on Monday, the 11th day of March,
1935, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 27th day of February, 1935.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM JOHN THOMAS,
late of Tirohia, now of Morrinsville, Farmer, was
this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a
meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Paeroa,
on Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1935, at 10 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 1st day of March, 1935.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of JOHN HENRY RASHLEIGH, of Hastings,
Painter.

NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend
of 6¾d. in the pound is now payable at my office
on all accepted proved claims.

G. G. CHISHOLM,
Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Napier, 28th February, 1935.