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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Term of license: Twenty-one years.
Date of possession: 1st March, 1939.
The Runs are situated thirty miles from Cromwell by good gravelled road and twelve miles from Tarras. They comprise easy to steep hill country rising from about 2,000 ft. to 5,100 ft. There is a fair area suitable for cultivation and a good homestead-site is available. The block is well balanced, carrying good native pasture, and is well watered by creeks.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

(1) The licensee shall, within one year from the date of the license, take up residence on the land comprised in the license, and shall thereafter reside thereon continuously.
(2) The licensee shall, within two years of the date of the license, plant with suitable trees to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands an area of at least 1 acre on some part of the land comprised in the license, and shall in each of the nine succeeding years so plant one additional acre. There shall be at least eight hundred trees planted on each acre, and the area so planted shall be securely fenced in by the licensee with rabbit-proof fencing. The licensee shall replant all failures from time to time as may be found necessary and shall protect, trim, and maintain all such plantations during the term of the license to the satisfaction of the Commissioner.
(3) The right is reserved to the Crown to enter on the land at any time during the license for the purpose of killing deer.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF PASTORAL LICENSE.

1. Applicant to be over twenty-one years of age.
2. Term of license: Twenty-one years, from 1st March, 1939, with contingent right of renewal over the whole run or, if it is subdivided, over one subdivision.
3. No person may hold more than one pastoral run, except with the approval of the Minister of Lands given on the recommendation of the Land Board. If a husband holds a run, his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.
4. One half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, license fee (£1 1s.), weighting for improvements, and statutory declaration shall be deposited by the applicant immediately his application is declared successful. Rent commences from date of license.
5. Rent is payable half-yearly in advance on 1st March and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.
6. Improvements.—The licensee is required to effect and maintain improvements of a permanent character as follows:—
   (a) Within one year from the date of his license, to a value equal to one year’s rent payable under the license:
   (b) Within two years from the date of his license, to a value equal to two years’ rent payable under the license:
   (c) Within six years from the date of his license, to a value equal to four years’ rent payable under the license.
7. Licensee shall prevent the destruction or burning of timber and the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweet-brier, or other noxious weeds or plants, and shall keep down rabbits.
8. No tussock or snow-grass shall be burned save with the prior consent in writing of the Board, which may be given subject to such conditions, restrictions, and directions as the Board thinks fit.
9. Licensee shall have no right to any minerals; where any mineral is discovered the Governor-General may cancel the license over such land as is required for the proper working of the mine or for access thereto.
10. Licensee shall have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license, and full rights of ingress, egress, and regress are reserved to the Crown for the purpose of cutting and removing such timber and flax.
11. With the permission of the Land Board the licensee may—
    (a) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon:
    (b) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres:
    (c) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run and sow same in grass.
    (d) Surface-sow in grass any portion of the run.
12. Roads may be taken without payment of compensation.
13. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
    Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 8/9/129; D.O. VII/5 and M.L. 4089.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 24th January, 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, Invercargill, at noon on Friday, the 10th day of February, 1939.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST - CONSERVATION REGION. — SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 47 acres, being part of State Forest No. 37, and situated in Block XVII, Waikawa Survey District, about six miles from Waikawa.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 31,287, or in board feet 211,600, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu 30,705 207,800
Miro 582 3,800
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31,287 211,600

Upset price: £200.
Time for removal: Six months.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £50, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in three equal monthly instalments, the first falling due one month 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, Invercargill,” 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.

N. J. DOLAMORE, Conservator of Forests.