Dec. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3521

Lots 1 and 2 of Allotment 7, Block X: Area, 24 perches. Capital value, £750; half-yearly rent, £18 15s.

Weighted with £375 for improvements comprising two blocks of shops. This sum is payable in cash, or, after the payment of a deposit of £100, the balance, £275, may be paid over a period of seven years by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £23 15s. 4d.

Allotment 20, Block X, is situated in Taupiri Street, and is suitable for a building-site.

Allotments 16, 18, 19, 20, Block XXVIII, all have frontages to Edward Street, and will be suitable for building-sites when drained.

Lot 1 of Allotment 21, Block XVII, is in South Street, and provides a good flat, dry, building-site.

Lots 1 and 2 of Allotment 7, Block X, comprise a shop property in the main street (Rora Street) near the railway-station.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 7/581/3; D.O. D.P. 1359 and 1238/9, M.L. 3839 and 2042.)

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 13th December, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on optional tenures 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, 30th January, 1940.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 1st February, 1940, at 10 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 weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Block V, Otanake Survey District.

Lot 2 on D.P. 15017, being part Kinohaku East No. 2 Section 28B, Section 16B No. 1 Block: Area, 175 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments, £10. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £85 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising half-share in boundary fencing, internal fencing, clearing, and stumping.

This is a grazing proposition situated on Stewart’s Access Road, fourteen miles from Te Kuiti Post-office, School, Railway-station, Cream depot, and Saleyards, access being from Te Kuiti by metalled road. The property consists of easy undulating country with some limestone outcrops, about 130 acres being ploughable. Some 170 acres have been cleared and grassed but have now totally reverted to fern and ragwort, the balance, 5 acres, being in its natural state (light bush). The soil is light to medium loam resting on limestone and clay formation; watered by running streams and springs. This property is not considered suitable as a separate holding but would be useful as an adjunct to an adjoining holding.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/22528; D.O. R.L.A./43.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 11th December, 1939.

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 Friday, 29th December, 1939.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber specified in that area containing approximately 113 acres, situated in Block IV, Opoutihi Survey District (portion of State Forest No. 14); about seventeen miles from Matamata Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 81,913, or in board feet 560,750, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu.. .. 72,860 501,400
Miro .. .. 8,259 53,850
Totara .. 794 5,500
———— ————
81,913 560,750

Upset price: £1,086.
Time for removal: Twelve months.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixth of the upset price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in five equal instalments, the first of which shall fall due one month after 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 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, Rotorua,” 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.

W. T. MORRISON, Conservator of Forests.