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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 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, Wellington, up to noon on Tuesday, 28th October, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 30th 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.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Pahiatua County.—Mangahao Survey District.

SECTION 22, Block XIII: Area, 200 acres. Capital value, £125. Deposit on deferred payments, £10 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 14s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 10s.

Weighted with £105 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, consisting of approximately 30 acres felled and grassed, 60 chains of fencing, and whare.

This property is situated on the Naenae Road, five miles from Mangamahoe and twelve miles from Pahiatua by metalled road to within about half a mile of section, thence by formed road very much in disrepair. The section comprises broken hilly land of which 75 acres was originally felled but is reverting back to fern and second growth. Approximately 30 acres in patches of grazable country, balance in bush. The soil is of poor quality resting on rock formation; watered by streams.

Application forms and any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/28942.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 25th September, 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, Rotorua, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 14th day of October, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All the milling-timber specified in that area, containing approximately 107 acres, more or less, situated in Block X, Patetere North-east Survey District (portion of State Forest No. 3), about five miles from Mamaku Railway-station. The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 89,962, or in board feet 627,100, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu . . . . . . . 86,510 603,500
Miro . . . . . . . 1,965 13,200
Kahikatea. . . . . . 1,487 10,400
89,962 627,100

Upset price : £806.

Time for removal of timber: Six months from date of commencing cutting.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £403, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance of the purchase-money will be paid by one promissory note payable three months from date of issue of license.

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. 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.

5. 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.

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 closing date of tenders.

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, Rotorua,” 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.

W. T. MORRISON, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that MATTHEW NORMAN BRYANT, of 50 Selkirk Street, Hamilton, Painter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Thursday, the 26th day of September, 1935, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 17th day of September, 1935.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that LYDIA ANN WILSON, of Manunui, Boot and Shoe Vendor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Official Assignee’s Office, Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, on Monday, the 30th day of September, 1935, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 18th day of September, 1935.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of GORDON HECTOR WOLSELEY KING and MONTAGUE WILLIAM COWLEY KING, trading as King Bros., of Taradale, Motor Engineers.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 1s. 11½d. in the pound is now payable at my office on all accepted proved claims.

G. G. CHISHOLM,
Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Napier, 17th September, 1935.