1044
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 41

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 7th May, 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, Hokitika, at 4 p.m., on Friday, the 24th day of May, 1940.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 305 acres, situated in Block XVI, Mawhera-nui Survey District, and Block III, Brunner Survey District, Permanent State Forests, Nos. 1701 and 1715, approximately six miles from Kotuku Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 589,183, or in board feet 3,738,100, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu 589,183 3,738,100

Upset price: £3 398.
Term of removal: Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixth of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by five equal quarterly instalments, the first to be made 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.

COURTENEY BIGGS, Conservator of Forests.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that ALISON GODFREY BRENTON, of 153 Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland, Driver, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 14th day of May, 1940, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 2nd day of May, 1940.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that STANLEY HAROLD SANDFORD, of 4 Eden Crescent, Auckland, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland, on Thursday, the 16th day of May, 1940, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 6th day of May, 1940.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM NOBLE DAVIDSON, of 20 Lichfield Road, Parnell, Auckland, Civil Servant, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office Law Court Building, High Street, Auckland, on Friday, the 17th day of May, 1940, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 6th day of May, 1940.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sitting of the said Court to be held on Monday, the 27th day of May, 1940, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for orders releasing me from administration of the said estates:—

Curd, Hugh Thomas, of New Plymouth, Carpenter.
Dutton, Leslie Samuel, of New Plymouth, Lorry-driver.
Farrell, Thomas, of Waitaanga, Sawmiller.
Ford, Leslie Roy, of Mokau, Lorry-driver.
Hefford, Henry Francis, and Agnes Catherine, Junction Road, New Plymouth, Farmers.
Horsup, Reginald Trevor, of Stratford, Carpenter.
Hurlstone, Victor Francis, Egmont Village, Storekeeper.
Mather, Charles Gordon, of Stratford, Carpenter.
Schaare, Percival Matthew, of Okoke, Share-milker.
Stocks, Arthur James, of New Plymouth, Metal-polisher.
Williams, Andrew Peter, of New Plymouth, Labourer.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 30th day of April, 1940.

L. W. LOUISSON,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.

In the Estate of DAVID PATRICK CASEY, of Taihape, Farmer.

NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 19s. 10½d. in the pound, making in all 20s. in the pound, is now payable at my office on all proved claims.

T. M. BROOKS,
Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Taihape, 8th May, 1940.