Sept. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2639

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the Auckland Land District for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 10th September, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for leasing, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 25th October, 1935.

The land described in the First Schedule is offered in terms of the Land Act, 1924, and may be selected on renewable lease—term, sixty-six years. The land described in the Second Schedule is offered in terms of section 9 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914, and is available for selection on “change paddock” lease—term, twenty-one years.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 31st October, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Whareorino Survey District.

(National Endowment.)

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

Section 5, Block VII: Area, 366 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £135; half-yearly rent, £2 14s.

Weighted with £294 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of four rooms, shed, water-supply, 68 chains boundary-fencing, 74 chains internal fencing, clearing and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £94, the balance—£200—to remain on mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent, payable over a period of thirty years by instalments of £6 16s. 10d. per half-year. A remission of the interest charges under this mortgage will be granted for two years provided permanent improvements to the value of amount of the interest involved are effected annually.

A grazing property, situated on the Mangatoa Road, twenty-three miles from Awakino Post-office, two miles from Waikawan School; access by metalled road. Fairly broken country with small flats along the road frontage. Approximately 160 acres in worn-out pasture, balance in natural state—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.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Rotoiti Survey District.

Lot 2 of Section 12, Block V: Area, 25 acres 0 roods 33 perches. Half-yearly rent, 17s. 6d.

Weighted with £25 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, consisting of cottage of two rooms (poor order), 10 chains road-boundary fencing, and half-share in 54 chains boundary-fencing.

This property, which is suitable for use as a “change paddock” or run-off area, is situated on Hamurana Road, eight miles from Ngongotaha Post-office, School, and Railway-station. An undulating to hilly section of which about 5 acres is in worn-out pasture, balance in natural state—scrub. Ragwort requires attention.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/3500 and 9/3071.)

Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 10th September, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the Local Lands Office, Rotorua, on Wednesday, 16th October, 1935, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Horohoro Survey District.

Section 3a, Block III: Area, 17 acres 0 roods 27·4 perches. Upset price, £10.

This section, which is suitable as a run-off area or as a holding paddock, is situated off Clayton Road, eight miles from Rotorua Railway-station and Post-office, twelve miles from Ngongotaha Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access by metalled road from Rotorua and clay road from Clayton Road. The land is totally unimproved, in fern and scrub; three-quarters of the area is ploughable, the balance being hilly and broken.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1098/293.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 14th September, 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 30th day of September, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 308 acres, situated in Block XV, Waiwhero Survey District. Provisional State Forest Reserve No. 1593.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 395,275, or in board feet 2,479,910, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu . . . . . . . 259,905 1,652,480
Kahikatea . . . . 135,370 827,430
395,275 2,479,910

Upset price: £2,462.
Time for removal: Five years.

Terms of Payment.

A cheque for £100, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in seventeen quarterly instalments, the first payment to be made nine 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 may 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.