3670

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 123

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence
of their farming experience and 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 section 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Southland County.—Oteramika Hundred.—Otago Mining
District.

SECTION 63, Block VII : Area, 150 acres 0 roods 5 perches.
Capital value, £230 ; half-yearly rent, £4 12s.
Weighted with £700 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising dwelling, stable, implement-shed, fencing, felling,
stumping, and grassing.
The property is situated about one mile from Gorge Road
Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and School by good metalled
road, and is suitable for mixed farming. Approximately
35 acres are in standing bush containing a large proportion
of kamahi, the balance being a worked-out sawmill, area
fire-swept and roughly surface sown. The soil is light and
peaty in parts on clay subsoil, but responds well to treatment
and could be stumped and cultivated at comparatively
small expense. Section is undulating and watered by a
stream.
Any further information desired may be obtained from the
undersigned.

T. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/6950; D.O. STL. 26, X/6.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 27th November, 1940.
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, Palmerston North,
at 3 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 20th December, 1940.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON
LAND DISTRICT.
ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing
approximately 166 acres, being part Lot 4, State Forest
No. 42, Block XII, Kaitieke Survey District, and Block IX,
Tongariro Survey District, more particularly delineated on
plan No. 62/171, deposited in the office of the State Forest
Service, Palmerston North, and thereon edged red.
The estimated milling-timber in cubic feet is 274,500, or
in board feet 1,834,500, made up as follows :-
Species. Cubic feet. Board feet.
Rimu .. .. 105,800 716,700
Miro .. .. 19,800 127,100
Kahikatea .. .. 27,700 188,600
Matai .. .. 110,700 731,600
Totara .. .. 10,500 70,500
274,500 1,834,500
Upset price : £3,750.
Time for removal : Two years and a half.

Terms of Payment.
A marked cheque for £162 (one hundred and sixty-two
pounds), together with £1 Is. license fee, must accompany
the tender, and the balance to be paid in twenty-three
equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be
paid one month after the 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 sat-
   sfaction 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 qualities, quantities, and kinds 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 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 to "Conservator of Forests, Palmerston
    North," 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.

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

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.
NOTICE is hereby given that dividends in the under-
mentioned estates are now payable at my office
Church Street, Masterton, on all proved and accepted
claims :-
McKay, Alexander, at one time of Masterton, Farmer—A
first dividend of 10½d. in the pound.
Seed, William George, of Masterton, Restaurant-proprietor
—A first and final dividend of 3½d. in the pound.
Russell, William Alexander, of Masterton, Motor Mechanic
—A first and final dividend of 7s. in the pound.
Dated at Masterton, this 30th day of November, 1940.
ARTHUR D. LOW,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
NOTICE is hereby given that MYRTLE WRIGHT, of Days
Bay, Married Woman (Storekeeper), was this day
adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of
creditors to be holden at my office on Monday, the 9th day
of December, 1940, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.
Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1940.
S. TANSLEY,
Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 487,
folio 96 (Auckland Registry), for part Lot 3, Deposited
Plan 15143, being portion of the block situated in Block VI,
Maungakawa Survey District, called Motumaoho No. 2, in
favour of THOMAS ANDREW TURNER, of Kuranui,
Farmer, having been lodged with me together with an applica-
tion for a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby
given of my intention to issue such new certificate of title
after fourteen days from 5th December, 1940.
Dated at the Land Registry Office at Auckland, this 29th
November, 1940.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.