Nov. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.--Election to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth :-

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 2nd November, 1942.

W. G. BAIRD, Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1942.--Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1942.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :-

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Francis Joseph Usher.

The Auckland Wayside Mission.

Mr. John Oswald Sanders.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Auckland, 4th November, 1942.

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, Auckland, at 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 23rd November, 1942.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND CONSERVANCY.--NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

The marked and numbered milling trees situated on that area containing approximately 368 acres (part State Forest No. 97), being part Sections 2 and 3; Block X, Hurakia Survey District, about sixteen miles from Waimiha Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 451,000, or in board feet 3,145,000, made up as follows :-

451,000 3,145,000

Upset price : £6,450.

Time for removal of timber : Three years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £1,000, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid by twenty-four equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be paid three months after the date of sale. In addition, the successful tenderer shall take out the available totara at a fixed royalty on output basis.

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 form obtainable from any office of the State Forest Service, and should be enclosed in envelopes addressed "Conservator of Forests, Auckland," 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.

R. D. CAMPBELL, Conservator of Forests.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 3rd November, 1942.

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, Rotorua, at 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 20th day of November, 1942.

SCHEDULE.

ALL the milling-timber specified in that area containing 744 acres, more or less, situated in Block XII, Otanewainuku Survey District, being part of State Forest No. 6, about twelve miles and a half from Te Puke Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 324,900, or in board feet 2,242,000, made up as follows:-

324,900 2,242,000

Upset price : £3,370.

Time for removal of timber : Two years and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £670, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance of the purchase-money be paid in eighteen equal monthly instalments beginning on the 20th of the month after the date of sale.