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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Land in Canterbury Land District forfeited

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Canterbury Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE

(L. and S. 21/204.)

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

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 3rd May, 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, 21st May, 1943.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

All the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 119 acres, situated on Block IX, Hohonu Survey District, S.F. No. 30, approximately twelve miles from Kumara Railway-station. The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 218,200, or in board feet 1,445,000, made up as follows :—

Species.
Rimu .. .. .. 215,000 1,424,000
Kahikatea .. .. .. 2,100 14,000
Miro .. .. .. 800 5,000
Totara .. .. .. 300 2,000

Upset price : £1,460.
Time for removal : Four years.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £250, together with £1 Is. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in eleven equal monthly instalments, commencing in two months from the date of sale.

Special Condition

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 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, Hokitika,” 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.

F. J. PERHAM, Conservator of Forests
(S.F. 23/5/30/1.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims, promissory notes (if any) to be produced :—

Nieper, Jas. (deceased), late of Auckland, Pie-manufacturer—Second dividend of 4s. in the pound.
Reinhardt, F. C. H., Whangarei, Furniture-dealer—Supplementary dividend of 2s. 4d. in the pound, making in all 2s. 10½d. in the pound.

A. W. WATTERS, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend in the undermentioned estate is now payable at my office on all proved and accepted claims :—

Finch, Abraham Fleming—Second and final dividend of 2s. 7d. in the pound.

L. W. LOUISSON, Official Assignee.
New Plymouth, 4th May, 1943.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 71, folio 24 (Auckland Registry), for Lot 6, Deposited Plan 264, being part of Te Horo Block No. 998, situated at Helensville, in favour of THE CHAIRMAN, COUNCILLORS, AND INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF WAITEMATA, 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 6th May, 1943.

Dated the 30th April, 1943, at the Land Registry Office at Auckland.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.

APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a new certificate of title in the name of WILLIAM IRVING, of Napier, Settler, for all that parcel of land situate in the Borough of Napier, containing eighteen (18) perches, more or less, and being also Lot No. 27 on Deposited Plan No. 139, which said piece of land is part of Town Section 379, Napier, comprising the whole of the land in certificate of title, H.B. Vol. 78, folio 231 (Hawke’s Bay Registry), and evidence having been lodged of the loss or destruction of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the new certificate of title as requested after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 3rd day of May, 1943, at the Lands Registry Office, Napier.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.