1926
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, the 12th September, 1935, at 10.30 o’clock 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Sounds County.—French Pass Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block IX, Section 3, Block XII, and part Section 14, Block X: Area, 1,409 acres 3 roods 15 perches. Capital value, £425. Deposit on deferred payments, £25: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £13. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 10s.

Weighted with £443 15s. (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising wood and iron dwelling of five rooms (in poor state of repair), 150 chains of boundary-fencing (half-share), 100 chains internal fencing, and 560 acres of pasture, reverting to fern.

A grazing property, situated in the Deys Bay Sounds district, about three hours and a half to four hours’ run by launch from Havelock. Hilly to steep land of which about 560 acres are in pasture and fern, 300 acres in scrub, rocky faces, and rocky fern, and the balance in natural state. Fair soil resting on sandstone formation; watered by permanent streams. Tauhinu is rather bad in places and although the property has been subdivided it is now all one paddock. This land is light and difficult to keep clean, does not lie to the sun, and is suitable only for dry sheep and a few head of cattle.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

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

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

SECTION 2, Block XVI: Area, 542 acres. Capital value, £160; half-yearly rent, £3 4s.

• Rental concession is conditional upon the successful applicant effecting improvements each year to the value of twice the amount of the exempted rent.

An unsubdivided grazing property, situated in the Maruia Valley, about nineteen miles from Murchison by metalled road. Cream is collected at the property. The section is well watered and comprises successive terraces along the road frontage, balance hillside. Soil, which rests on sandstone formation, is fair on frontage but poor at the back of the section. Some 200 acres have been cleared, burnt and grassed, but have now reverted to fern; the balance of the area is in birch and totara bush. The section, on which there is a little fencing of no value, is clear of rabbits and noxious weeds.

Inangahua County.—Waitahu Survey District.—Westland Mining District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.)

Section 1, Block III, and Section 8, Block VII: Area, 286 acres 0 roods 29 perches. Capital value, £135; half-yearly rent, £2 14s.

A grazing property, situated on the Reef ton—Maruia Road, eight miles from Reefton Post-office, six miles from Blacks Point School, and nine miles from Reefton Railway-station and the Golden Coast Dairy Factory. Access is by formed road from Reefton.

The area, which is in its natural state, ranges in altitude from 850 ft. to 1,000 ft., and comprises flat and terrace land rising to hillside. The soil is fair on flats, light on terraces, resting on gravel formation; watered by river and creeks. A fire having swept over the sections there is a considerable amount of rough feed available. Blackberry is noticeable.

This land is not first-class, part of it being rather light, but a fair area could be worked and the land is equal to other farming land in the vicinity.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/4141, 34/533, X/97/32.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 9th July, 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 5th day of August, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 327 acres, more or less, known as Lot 2, being portion of State Forest No. 29, Block II, Ngatapa Survey District, about thirteen miles from Matawai Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 586,260, or in board feet 4,084,170, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu 473,111 3,298,222
Miro 10,106 67,477
Kahikatea 78,291 545,910
Matai 22,252 155,059
Totara 2,500 17,502

              586,260           4,084,170

Upset price: £5,450.
Time for removal: Four years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-eleventh of the amount tendered, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in ten 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 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.