2354
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Pirongia Survey District.

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

Sections 6 and 12, Block VI: Area, 419 acres 0 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £120; half-yearly rent, £2 8s.

Weighted with £312 for improvements, consisting of whare of three rooms, clearing and grassing, approximately 135 chains subdivisional fencing, and half-share in 180 chains of boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or by a cash deposit of £17, the balance (£295) to be payable (1) by a first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for £195 over a period of thirty years with interest at 5½ per cent., half-yearly instalment £6 13s. 5d., and (2) £100 to be payable to the Lands and Survey Department over a period of twenty years with interest at 5 per cent. to a New Zealand discharged soldier, half-yearly instalment £3 19s. 8d., or with interest at 5½ per cent. to a civilian, half-yearly instalment £4 3s. 1d. A remission of the interest charges under the above mortgages will be granted for a period of two years provided improvements to the value of the remitted interest are effected annually in addition to the improvements required to earn the rental exemption.

A grazing property, situated on Mangaiti Road, five miles from Puketotara Post-office and eighteen miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station and Dairy Factory. Access by metalled road. Sections, which are hilly and broken, are high up on slopes of the Pirongia Ranges. Approximately 220 acres felled and grassed now practically reverted; balance in standing bush. Ragwort requires attention.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon a sum equivalent to the concession granted being expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

For any further information required apply to the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/3500/1, XI/1/1043, and 26/11953.)

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 21st August, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 11 o’clock a.m., on Monday, 23rd September, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 25th 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.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Paki Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block III: Area, 333 acres. Capital value, £100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 1s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Loaded with £150 for improvements, comprising dwelling, cow-byre, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £50, leaving £100 on first mortgage for a term of ten years, half-yearly instalment £6 8s. 4d. to a discharged soldier purchaser or £6 11s. 4d. to other purchasers.

A grazing property, situated on the Waimiha Road, five miles from Waimiha Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and eighteen miles from Mokauiti Saleyards. Access from Waimiha is by pumice road and track. The soil is a pumice loam resting on rhyolite formation, watered by streams. Undulating to hilly land, about 100 acres being easy to hilly open scrub country; balance steep, broken bush country. The property is subdivided into six paddocks and about 35 acres are in fair pasture, the balance of the area being in scrub and bush.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/17291.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 19th August, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Auckland, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 4th September, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

THE kauri timber contained in 85 certain numbered trees on that parcel of land containing approximately 134 acres, being part Provisional State Forest No. 72, situated in Koekoea Watershed, Block I, Ohinemuri Survey District, about six miles from Hikutaia Railway-station. The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 32,830, or in board feet 241,800.

Upset price: £1,235.

Term of license: One year.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-half of the tendered price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by one instalment three months after 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 qualities, quantities, and kinds 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, Auckland,” 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.

R. D. CAMPBELL, Conservator of Forests.