2536
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, broken period rent, and £1 1s. lease fee to be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

2. Rent to be payable half-yearly in advance on the first days of January and July during the term of the lease.

3. Term of lease: Fourteen years, with right of renewal for one further term (but no longer) of fourteen years; rental for renewed term to be fixed by agreement or arbitration.

4. No compensation to be payable for improvements, but on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease, the lessee may remove buildings and fencing erected by him, or, in the event of a further lease being offered for disposal by public competition, it will be loaded with the value of such improvements, such loading to be payable in cash, and to be paid to the outgoing lessee, subject to deductions for any arrears of rent.

5. Plans and specifications for any buildings to be erected to be submitted to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for his approval and no buildings to be erected until such approval is given.

6. Lessee to maintain in good and substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, and to trim all live hedges.

7. Lessee not to use or remove, or permit to be used or removed, any gravel without the prior consent of the Land Board being obtained.

8. Lessee not to carry on or permit to be carried on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade on the land or in or about any buildings that may be erected on the land.

9. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board first had and obtained.

10. Lease to be subject to termination if any of the aforegoing conditions are violated.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(L. and S. 9/3194.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Auction.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 10th November, 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, Hokitika, at noon on Friday, the 3rd day of December, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land, containing 220 acres, more or less, situated in Provisional State Forest No. 1701, Block XV, Mawheranui Survey District.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 395,420, or in board feet 2,328,080, made up as follows:—

Species. Board Feet. Cubic Feet.
Rimu .. .. .. 2,326,550 395,185
Kahikatea .. .. 730 112
Totara .. .. .. 800 123
———————— ————————
2,328,080 395,420

Upset price: £2,024.
Time for removal: Two and a half years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-seventh of the upset price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in six equal quarterly instalments, the first falling due 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 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.

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 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, Hokitika,” 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.

S. A. C. DARBY, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims; promissory notes (if any) to be produced prior to receiving dividends:—

Rogers, Francis Henry Purvis, of Horopito, Schoolteacher—First dividend of 5s. in the pound.

Smith, Alfred, of Ohakune Junction, Railway Shunter—First dividend of 4s. in the pound.

S. PERCY,
Official Assignee.

Taihape, 10th November, 1937.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN MALONEY, of Petone, Insurance Inspector, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 23rd day of November, 1937, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of November, 1937.

S. TANSLEY,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that CHHANA KALA, of Wellington, Hotel Employee (Fruiterer), was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Monday, the 29th day of November, 1937, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of November, 1937.

S. TANSLEY,
Official Assignee.