2204
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

Weighted with £470 for improvements. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £25, the balance, £445, may remain on table mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand for a term of twenty years, with interest at the rate of 4½ per cent. reducible to 4¼ per cent. for prompt payment. Instalments comprising principal and interest combined are payable half-yearly. The mortgagor will require to install a satisfactory water-supply and improve the buildings on the property within one year from the date of selection, and also supply not less than 1 ton of suitable phosphatic manure annually to the satisfaction of the Corporation. The selector will be required to deposit £100 with the Corporation, and this amount will be refunded by progress payments as the stipulated improvements are effected. Costs of preparation of the mortgage will be payable by the selector.

The property is suitable for a small farm to supplement a worker's income, and is situated on the main highway, one mile and a half from Waipawa Post-office, Railway-station, and School, and four miles from the Waipukurau Saleyards. The section comprises approximately 3 acres of flat land, the balance being easy hilly slopes. Soil is loam, on a clay formation; watered by river.

The electric installation is defective, and the selector will need to attend to the rewiring of the dwelling.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/20447; D.O. L.S. 437.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Land in the Canterbury Land District acquired for a State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act, 1921–22, as a State forest.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, Ashley County, containing by admeasurement 99 acres 3 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Rural Sections 30664 and 31464, and situated in Block II, Rangiora Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 136/4, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Certificates of title, Vol. 66, folios 75 and 105.)

ALEX R. ENTRICAN, Director of Forestry.

Milling-timber withdrawn from Sale.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 18th July, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the milling-timber in Block XI, Waro Survey District, Taranaki Land District, advertised for sale by public tender in Gazette No. 42 of the 22nd May, 1941, on page 1394, is withdrawn from sale.

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

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 21st July, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the sale of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Palmerston North, at 3 o’clock on Friday, the 8th day of August, 1941.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber, except beech (menziesii), on that piece of land containing approximately 222 acres, known as Lot 8, Block XI, Waro Survey District, State Forest 55, about fourteen miles from Ohura Railway-station.

The estimated quantity of milling-timber in cubic feet is 229,200, or in board feet 1,584,000, made up as follows:—

Upset price : £2,300.
Time for removal : Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £380, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance to be paid in fifteen equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be paid one month after the date of the 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, 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 obtained on application to the undersigned or to the Director of Forestry, Wellington.

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