JUNE 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1817

(now dense fern) and 628 acres of bush land which will not pay to fall. The soil is of fair quality on flat, poor on hills, resting on sandstone formation. The forest is light, comprising mixed bush with a medium undergrowth of birch, &c. Well watered by streams.

Murchison County.—Tutaki Survey District.—Westland Mining District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for ten years.)

(National Endowment.)

Section 4, Block VII: Area, 659 acres. Capital value, £165; half-yearly rent, £3 6s.

Weighted with £200 for improvements, comprising 350 acres felled and burned and 11 acres cleared and stumped. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £20, and the balance secured on instalment mortgage to this Department for a term of fifteen years—annual instalments £17 4s. 2d. to discharged soldiers and £17 15s. 6d. to others.

A grazing property, situated on Blackwater Road, seven miles from Longford Post-office, four miles from Mangles School, thirty-four miles from Glenhope Railway-station, and nine miles from Murchison Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access from Murchison is by six miles good road, one mile dray-road, and two miles partly formed road. About 12 acres are flat land, balance steep hill country. Altitude, 600 ft. to 2,500 ft. Soil poor, resting on sandstone; watered by permanent streams. Approximately 350 acres felled and grassed (now in fern), 11 acres felled and stumped, and 298 acres in natural state. A certain amount of blackberry on road frontage. Approximately 200 chains of post-and-wire fencing, mostly burnt and lying on ground, all subdivision fences burnt down by fern fire. Buildings comprise a four-roomed lean-to cottage, cart-shed, hay-shed, and cow-byre. Buildings and fencing are considered to be of no value.

For any further details required apply to—

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. XI/4/616.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 25th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 16th July, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 18th July, 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—New River Hundred.—Monte Cristo Settlement.

SECTION 4s and part Section 3s: Area, 165 acres 1 rood 4 perches. Capital value, £1,460; half-yearly rent, £36 10s.

Weighted with £320 for improvements, consisting of buildings, fencing, and draining. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £80, and the balance secured on instalment mortgage over a period of twenty years, half-yearly instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £9 19s. 5d.

A dairying property, situated within three miles from Wright’s Bush Railway-siding, School, Post-office, and Dairy Factory by a good metalled road. Altitude, 40 ft. above sea-level.

Full particulars may be obtained from—

B. C. McCABE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/5538.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 25th June, 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 Monday, the 15th day of July, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 55 acres, more or less, being portion of State Forest No. 67, Block XVI, Kaitieke Survey District, about one mile and a half from Raurimu Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 82,307, or in board feet 565,000, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £828.

Time for removal: One year and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fifth of the amount tendered, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in eight equal monthly 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 for three months from the date tenders close.

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.

Milling-timber withdrawn from Sale.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 25th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the milling-timber in Block XII, Ahaura Survey District, Westland Land District, advertised for sale by public auction in Gazette No. 40 of the 30th May, 1935, on page 1546, is hereby withdrawn from sale.

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