STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 29th November, 1943.

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, 17th December, 1943.

SCHEDULE

ROTORUA CONSERVANCY.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL the milling-timber specified in that area containing 472 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks I and II, Marotiri Survey District, being Sections Tihoi 3B, 8B, No. 5 Block, about fifteen miles from Mokai.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 332,100, or in board feet 2,304,000, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. .. 231,500 1,611,000
Matai .. .. .. 60,000 414,000
Totara .. .. .. 18,300 128,000
Kahikatea .. .. .. 5,400 38,000
Tanekaha .. .. .. 3,300 22,000
Miro .. .. .. 13,600 91,000

332,100 2,304,000

Upset price : £4,020.
Time for removal of timber : Eighteen months.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for £820, together with £1 ls. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance of the purchase-money to be paid in eight equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be paid on the 20th of the month after 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 closing-date of tenders.

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, Rotorua," 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.

W. T. MORRISON, Conservator of Forests.

(S.F. 23/2/56/1.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims:—

Walker, Mary Catherine, of Stratford, Married Woman—First and final dividend of 20s. in the pound, with interest at 6 per centum per annum.
Hunt, Maud Elizabeth, late of New Plymouth, Milliner—First and final dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 30th November, 1943.

L. W. LOUISSON, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that ISABELLA FISHER REES, of Carterton, Tea-rooms Proprietress, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Carterton, on Friday, the 3rd day of December, 1943, at 10.30 o'clock a.m.

Dated at Masterton, this 24th day of November, 1943.

ARTHUR D. LOW, Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

KEITH GILLIGAN KINGSLEY, of Christchurch, Salesman, was adjudged bankrupt on 29th November, 1943. Creditors' meeting will be held at Old Provincial Building, Durham Street, Christchurch, on Wednesday, 8th December, 1943, at 10.30 a.m.

G. W. BROWN, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 490, folio 195 (Auckland Registry), for Lot 57, Deposited Plan 20700, being portion of Allotment 84 of the Parish of Titirangi, in favour of H. A. RAMM, LIMITED, having been lodged with me together with an application 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 2nd December, 1943.

Dated this 26th day of November, 1943, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE having been lodged of the loss of the outstanding duplicate of Mortgage No. 85284, in the names of LAMARTINE DWAN AND OTHERS, as mortgagees, affecting all the land in certificate of title, Vol. 207, folio 181 (Wellington Registry), and application having been made to register a transmission of the said mortgage to WILLIAM ARTHUR GADSBY, of Lower Hutt, Butcher, without production of the said mortgage, I hereby give notice that it is my intention to dispense with production of the said mortgage under section 40 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and to register such transmission as requested after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 30th day of November, 1943, at the Land Registry Office, Wellington.

J. CARADUS, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3)

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, and unless cause is shown to the contrary, the names of the undermentioned companies will be struck off the Register and the companies will be dissolved :—

R. W. & G. J. Bennett, Limited. 1934/8.
J. T. Weston & Company, Limited. 1938/13.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth, this 29th day of November, 1943.

W. E. BROWN, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (6)

NOTICE is hereby given that the names of the undermentioned companies have been struck off the Register and the companies dissolved :—

The Ideal Finance Company (New Plymouth), Limited. 1930/12.
H. C. Maxwell, Limited. 1932/6.
Black and Jacka, Limited. 1934/9.

Dated this 29th day of November, 1943, at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies at New Plymouth.

W. E. BROWN, Assistant Registrar of Companies.