2772
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to noon on Tuesday, 29th October, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 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.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Mangawei Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent and mortgage interest for one year.)

SECTIONS 8 and 9, Block XIV: 400 acres. Capital value, £425; half-yearly rent, £8 10s.

Weighted with £1,600 for improvements consisting of dwelling, wool-shed, cow-byre and whare combined, motor-shed, yards, 88 chains of road fencing, 220 chains of sub-divisional fencing, 184 chains of boundary-fencing, felling, grassing and stumping. This sum will be paid in cash or by a deposit of £30, and the balance of £1,570 by way of table mortgage for a term not exceeding thirty-six years and a half with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum to a discharged soldier and 5½ per cent. per annum to a civilian.

A grazing property, subdivided into nine paddocks, situated on the Pape Creek Road, seven miles from Raetihi School, Post-office, Dairy Factory, Saleyards, and Railway-station by metalled road. The sections comprise undulating to hilly land, the greater portion lying well. The whole area has been fallowed and grassed, of which approximately 40 acres have reverted. The soil is of a light quality loam resting on papa formation; watered by streams.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(L. and S. 26/6089.)

Lands in Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 1st October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Tuesday, 12th November, 1935, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Amendment Act, 1926, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Westport Borough.—Town of Westport.—Karamea Mining District.

SECTIONS 1080 and 1081: Area, 20·3 perches. Upset annual rental, £2.

These two sections together would make an ideal building-site. The sections have frontages to both Palmerston and Cobden Streets.

Detailed terms and conditions of lease and full particulars may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1098/485.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Auction.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 1st October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned milling-timber will be disposed of by public auction at the office of the State Forest Service, Auckland, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 22nd day of October, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

The milling-trees are numbered and situated on that area, containing approximately 783 acres, in Blocks XV and XVI, Maungataniwha Survey District, and Blocks II and III, Mangamuka Survey District (Omahuta State Forest).

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 411,304, or in board feet 2,823,950, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £5,278.

Time for removal of timber: Two years and a half.

(Excepted and reserved from this sale are kauri trees branded “F.R.” and also all green kauri trees under 7 ft. in girth, breast high.)

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-eighth of the purchase-price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance by seven quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid 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 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 out 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 buyers is drawn to the fact that the local controlling body may require the successful bidder 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 buyers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relative to the sale.

7. The timber described is submitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the highest bid 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 before the date of sale.

9. If no bid is accepted for the timber herein mentioned it will remain open for application at the upset price for three months from the date of the sale.

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.