Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 11th July, 1944.
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 p.m. on Monday, 24th
July, 1944.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.--WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT
ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 145 acres,
situated in Blocks I and V, Turiwhate Survey District, State Forest
No. 20, approximately thirteen miles from Kumara Railway-station.
The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 514,900,
or in board feet 3,343,000, made up as follows :-

Species.
Rimu .. .. .. 459,400 2,999,000
Kahikatea .. .. .. 25,800 166,000
Totara .. .. .. 7,600 48,000
Miro .. .. .. 22,100 130,000

514,900 3,343,000
Upset price : £3,490.
Time for removal : Two years.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £490, together with £1 1s.
license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid
in twenty equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be
made one month after 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 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 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.

COURTNEY BIGGS, Conservator of Forests.
(S.F. 23/5/20/1.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.--Supreme Court
VERA DIX, of Palmerston North, Spinster, was adjudged
bankrupt on 6th July, 1944. Creditors’ meeting will be held
at my office on Tuesday, 11th July, 1944, at 2.15 p.m.
C. O. PRATT, Official Assignee.
Courthouse, Palmerston North, 6th July, 1944.

In Bankruptcy

In the Estate of FRANCIS HILARY SHEPHERD, of Orepuki,
School-teacher.
NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend of 1s, 2d. in the pound,
being on account of interest, is now due and payable at my
office, Law Courts, Invercargill, on all proved and accepted claims,
making a total of 20s. in the pound and interest 1s. 2d. in the pound.
Dated at Invercargill, this 3rd day of July, 1944.
A. E. DOBBIE, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 256, folio 114
(Wellington Registry), for 20 perches, more or less, being
part Section 120, Hutt District, and being also Lot 123 on Deposited
Plan 2476, in the name of HARRIETT CAMPBELL, of Upper Hutt,
Widow, having been lodged with me together with an application
for a provisional certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby
given of my intention to issue such provisional certificate of title
after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this
notice.
Dated this 12th day of July, 1944, at the Land Registry Office,
Wellington.
E. B. C. MURRAY, Assistant Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (6)
NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the undermentioned
company has been struck off the Register and the company
dissolved :-
Holdsworth Display Company, Limited. 1934/47.
Given under my hand at Auckland, this 7th day of July, 1944.
L. G. TUCK, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (6)
NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the undermentioned
company has been struck off the Register and the company
dissolved :-
Napier Joyland, Limited. 1933/37.
Given under my hand at Napier, this 6th day of July, 1944.
E. C. ADAMS, 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 :-
Maud Oliver, Limited. 1939/156.
New Zealand Potteries, Limited. 1933/43.
Given under my hand at Wellington, this 11th day of July, 1944.
H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3) AND (4)
NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months
from this date the names of the undermentioned companies
will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register
and the companies dissolved :-
S. G. Nicol & Company, Limited. 1939/158.
Consolidated Kawarau Claims, Limited. 1926/43.
Given under my hand at Wellington, this 11th day of July,
1944.
H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

KENNETH ERNEST STONE, M.B., Ch.B. (N.Z.), 1944, now
residing in Auckland, hereby give notice that I intend applying
on the 5th August, 1944, to have my name placed on the Medical
Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited
the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Department of
Health at Wellington.
Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of July, 1944.
KENNETH ERNEST STONE.
12 Huntly Avenue, Grafton, Auckland. 161