Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2291

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th October, 1937.

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 Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, 26th October, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 27th October, 1937, 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.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.---SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Otorohanga County.--Ranginui Survey District.
(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.*)
SECTION 19, Block II: Area, 475 acres 3 roods 19 perches.
Capital value, £245 ; half-yearly rent, £4 18s.

Weighted with £335 for improvements, comprising dwelling of five rooms and bathroom, 30 chains road-boundary fencing, 200 chains internal fencing, and half-share in 140 chains boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £10, the balance of £325 may be paid over a period of twenty years by means of forty half-yearly instalments of £13 0s. 10d. each, principal and interest.

A grazing property situated on the Wharepuhunga Road, four miles from Ngaroma Post-office and School, and thirty-four miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station and Dairy Factory ; access by means of metalled road. Undulating to hilly and broken land of which approximately 400 acres has been felled and grassed (now reverted), balance in natural state of standing bush. Ragwort requires immediate attention.

• After payment of the required deposit, no rent and no interest payments will be charged for a period of five years, provided that a sum equivalent to the concession granted is expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land in addition to the ordinary improvements required under the Land Act.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/9432 ; D.O. R.L. 2220.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 4th October, 1937.

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, Palmerston North, at 3 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 22nd day of October, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.--WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
ALL the milling-timber on that area containing approximately 158 acres, situated in Block XVI, Manganui Survey District (Provisional State Forest No. 67), together with eighteen trees lying along Orautaha Stream adjoining; the timber is located about one mile and a half from Horopito Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 83,625, or in board feet 549,650, made up as follows:--

Upset price : £920.
Time for removal: One year.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-seventh of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in six equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be paid one month after the date of sale, and the others at monthly intervals thereafter.

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 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 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 tender is accepted for the timber herein mentioned it will remain open for application 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.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 4th October, 1937.

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 Thursday, the 21st day of October, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.--AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber specified in that area, containing 348 acres, more or less, situated in Block IV, Horohoro Survey District (parts of Provisional State Forests Nos. 24 and 31), about six miles from the Mamaku Railway-station.