payment of a deposit of £45, the balance of £1,300 |may be
secured on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation on
forty-year table; instalments, gross £17 18s. 2d., net
£16 5s. 8d., payable quarterly. Costs of preparation and
registration of mortgage (£6 ls.) to be paid by applicant.

The property is situated three miles up the Wakamarina
Valley and comprises steep, cleared bush country, growing
tussock and native grasses; suitable for crossbred sheep
(approximately one sheep per acre) and a small dairy herd
on the flats and lower faces. Approximately 100 acres of
lower faces are reverting to fern and parts of the river-side
flats are covered in blackberry. The hills exclude the sun
for the greater part of the day in the winter, and the winters
here are long and fairly severe. Approximately 27 acres of
ploughable land near the homestead is divided into small
paddocks, and has been stumped and cultivated, and carries
fair pasture of English grasses.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. XI/6/134; O.R.P. 95 and 111/24.)

Settlement Land in Otago Land District for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 23rd November, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is open for selection on renewable lease under the
Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925;
and applications will be received at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday,
10th January, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday,
12th January, 1938, 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitaki County.—Steward Settlement.

SECTION 54A: Area, 104 acres 3 roods 17 perches. Capital
value, £680. Half-yearly rent, £17.

Weighted with £355 for improvements, comprising dwelling
of four rooms, cow-byré, dairy and sheds, water-supply, &c.,
and fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment
of a deposit of £105, the balance (£250) may be left on mort-
gage with the State Advances Corporation. Term of mortgage
twenty-five years; interest 4½ reducible to 4⅛ for prompt
payment, the gross quarterly payments being £4 4s. 11d.
Besides the deposit as above on account of improvements,
portion of insurance premium and costs of registration (£3 ls.)
will also require to be paid.

Situated approximately one-quarter mile from Waitaki
Bridge Township, School, and Railway-station; bounded on
the north by the Waitaki River. The land is all flat and is
of a light nature, running to shingle in places. The improve-
ments are in fair condition. This property is not considered
a self-supporting farm, but would work in well with other
land.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/28633; D.O. L.P.S. 1421.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 22nd November, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the pur-
chasce of the undermentioned milling-timber will close
at the office of the State Forest Service, Invercargill, at
4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 10th day of December, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—SOUTHLAND
LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing
138 acres (known as Sawmill Area 122), being portion of
Section 8, Block III, Lillburn Survey District, State Forest
No. 53, about eight miles from Tuatapere Railway-station.
The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is
138,017, or in board feet 883,400, made up as follows:

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Beech .. 34,859 .. 219,600
Rimu .. 70,575 .. 466,100
Miro .. 27,277 .. 177,900
Totara .. 3,306 .. 19,800

138,017 883,400

Upset price : £732.
Term of license : One year and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fourth of the amount tendered,
plus £1 ls. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the
balance be paid in three 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 satis-
   faction 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 en-
   titled 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 Con-
   servator 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 pre-
   pared to pay for the timber. The highest or any tender will
   not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is sub-
   mitted 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, Inver-
    cargill,” 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 ob-
tained on application to the undersigned or to the Director
of Forestry, Wellington.

N. J. DOLAMORE, Conservator of Forests.