Nov. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3779

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Geraldine County.—Town of Geraldine.

SECTION 315: Area, 1 rood. Capital value, £15. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 7s. 6d.

Weighted with 12s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising half value 3½ chains party boundary gorse and wire fencing.

This section is situated at the corner of Peel and Hewlings Streets in the Geraldine Township, and is a suitable building-site.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 22/4559; D.O. L.P./885.)

Education Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 19th November, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Tuesday, 30th December, 1941, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—INVERCARGILL CITY.

Town of Gladstone.

Lot 2 of Sections 1 and 2, Block VI: Area, 1 rood 13·6 perches. Upset annual rental, £9. Weighted with £317 15s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising pavilion, hedges, fencing, and asphalt courts.

Lot 3 of Sections 1 and 2, Block VI: Area 1 rood 2·9 perches. Upset annual rental, £9. Weighted with £88 2s. 6d. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising iron shed, hedges, fencing, and part of asphalt court.

These Lots have been used as tennis courts, Lot 2 fronting Duke Street and Lot 3 Russell Street.

Date of possession: 1st January, 1942.

Six months’ rent at rate offered, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), and weighting for improvements must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

Term of lease: Twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further similar terms at rents on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

Terms and conditions of sale, form of lease, and any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

THOS. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(20/93.)

Lands in the Nelson Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 21st November, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

(L. and S. 22/950/6.)

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister of Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 21st November, 1941.

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 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 5th December, 1941.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 94 acres (known as Sawmill Area No. 39H), Block X, Rimu Survey District, State Forest No. 37, about six miles from Tahakopa Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 171,311, or in board feet 1,105,000, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £1,150.

Term of license: One year and a half.

Terms of payment: A marked cheque for one-third of the tender, plus £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in ten (10) 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 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 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 forms obtainable from any office of the State Forest Service, and should be enclosed in envelopes addressed to “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.

J. F. FIELD, Conservator of Forests.