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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931.

Office of the Tokerau Native Land Court,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1943.

IT is hereby notified that the order of adoption as set out in the Schedule hereunder has been made by the Native Land Court under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1931.

J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

ADOPTING parent: Wire Taurarua.
Adopted child: Henare Maihi, alias Henare Marsh.

Whakaatu tangohanga Tamaiti Whangai i raro o Wahi IX o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931.

Tari Kooti Whenua Maori, Tokerau,
Akarana, 22 o Pepuere, 1943.

HE whakaaturanga tenei kia mohiotia ai kua hangaia e te Kooti Whenua Maori i raro i nga tikanga o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931, tetahi ota whakamana i te tangohanga o tetahi tamaiti whangai e whakaaturia nei e te Kupu Apiti i raro nei.

TE RAPIHANA, Kai-rehita.

KUPU APITI.

NGA matua whangai: Wire Taurarua.
Tamaiti whangai: Henare Maihi, alias (ara) Henare Marsh.

Law Practitioners Amendment Act, 1935.

PURSUANT to the Law Practitioners Amendment Act, 1935, notice is hereby given that the Disciplinary Committee of the New Zealand Law Society on the 25th day of January, 1943, ordered that the name of Ian William Barton Roy, of New Plymouth, be struck off the Rolls of Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of March, 1943.

G. S. CLARK, Registrar, Supreme Court.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Town Land in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 2nd March, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale for cash by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Insurance Building, Worcester Street, Christchurch, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 14th April, 1943, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Ashburton County.—Ashburton Survey District.—Township of Chertsey.

RESERVE 2622: Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £5.

This section is situated in the Township of Chertsey adjacent to the Post-office and Railway-station. It is suitable for a building-site.

Conditions of Sale.

One-fifth of the purchase-money, payable on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with the title fee of £1, payable within thirty days thereafter.

Any further information required may be obtained at this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/2630/93; D.O. 8/289.)

Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 1st March, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 6th April, 1943.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 8th April, 1943, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence of their farming experience and financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and amount of improvement loading.

NOTE.—This section is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Oteramika Hundred.—Otago Mining District.

SECTION 63, Block VII: Area, 150 acres 0 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £230; half-yearly rent, £4 12s.

Weighted with £365 for improvements, comprising dwelling, stable, implement-shed, fencing, felling, stumping, and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or on such terms as may be arranged by the applicant with the State Advances Corporation prior to the ballot. Applicants will require to produce to the Land Board evidence of the terms arranged.

The property is situated about one mile from Gorge Road Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and School by good metalled road, and is suitable for mixed farming. Approximately 35 acres are in standing bush containing a large proportion of kamahi, the balance being a worked-out sawmill; area fire-swept and roughly surface sown. The soil is light and peaty in parts on clay subsoil, but responds well to treatment and could be stumped and cultivated at comparatively small expense. Section is undulating and watered by a stream.

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

T. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/6950; D.O. STL. 26.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 2nd March, 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, Hokitika, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 19th March, 1943.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 177 acres, being part of State Forest No. 26, situated in Block IV, Kopara Survey District, approximately twenty-six miles from Ngahere Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 316,500, or in board feet 1,986,000, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £1,770.
Time for removal: One year and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for a deposit of £370, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in eight equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be made one month after the date of sale.

Special Conditions.

The successful tenderer shall be liable for payment for any damage caused by fire on the above-mentioned area during the term of the license.

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.