Oct. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2393

This section, which is situated in Queen Street adjacent to the main business area in Rangitikei Street, is suitable as a site for a garage, warehouse, or factory, &c.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, broken-period rent, weighting for improvements, and £2 2s. (lease fee), must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

2. Term of lease: Twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

3. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.

4. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

5. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board.

6. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.

7. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.

8. Lessee not to effect improvements without the consent of the Land Board.

9. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board, and the amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid to the original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other payment in arrear. Failing disposal, the land and all improvements revert to the Crown without compensation.

10. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.

11. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

12. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

Form of lease may be perused and any further particulars required may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

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

(H.O. 20/531; D.O. W. 36.)

Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 20th October, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 6th December, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 8th December, 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 fee, and amount of improvement loading.

NOTE.—This land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Maniatoto County.—Maniatoto Survey District.—Otago Mining District.

SECTIONS 14 and 22, Block IX: Area, 67 acres 1 rood 6 perches. Capital value, £75; Half-yearly rent, £1 10s.

Weighted with £102 (to be paid in cash) for improvements comprising fencing.

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The sections are situated approximately three miles and a half from Waipiata School, Post-office, and Railway-station; and four miles and a half from Ranfurly by gravelled roads. The sections comprise, for the greater portion, light soil on a gravel formation, and are mostly level with a slight rise towards the east. The general quality is poor, and no water is available.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 9/3183; D.O. M.L. 3992.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Nelson, 19th 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, Nelson, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 8th day of November, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON - MARLBOROUGH FOREST - CONSERVATION REGION.—NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that area, containing 111 acres, more of less, situated in Block IV, Inangahua Survey District (Provisional State Forest No. 127), along Felin Creek, about thirty chains from Berlin’s Post-office.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 105,406, or in board feet, 675,050, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £560.

Term of license: six months.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fourth of the amount tendered must accompany the tender, together with £1 1s. license fee, and the balance be paid in three equal instalments which will be payable at six-weekly intervals.

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 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.