AUG. 31] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1083

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 25th August, 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 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 18th September, 1944.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 80 acres, situated in Block III, Brunner Survey District, State Forest No. 33, approximately six miles from Kotuku Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 220,800, or in board feet 1,389,000, made up as follows :—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. .. 220,800 1,389,000

Upset price : £1,390.
Time for removal : One year.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £430, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance to be paid in four 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 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, 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. 23/5/33/3.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICE

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that final dividends of 2s. 2½d. in the pound are now payable on all proved and accepted claims in the undermentioned estates :—

Amy Isabel Pearson and Sheila Mary Courtney, of Cromwell, carrying on business in co-partnership as Restaurant-keepers.

Amy Isabel Pearson, of Cromwell, Restaurant-keeper.

Sheila Mary Courtney, of Cromwell, Restaurant-keeper.

A. E. REYNOLDS, Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 24th August, 1944.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of balance certificate of title, Vol. 85, folio 277 (Taranaki Registry), for Lot 3 on Deposited Plan 1166, and Lot 34 on Deposited Plan 3012, being parts of Sections Nos. 70 and 72 of the Eltham Village Settlement, whereof AGNES GRAHAM JENKINS, wife of Harry Reginald Jenkins, of Auckland, Company Director, is the registered proprietress, 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 31st August, 1944.

Dated this 24th day of August, 1944, at the Land Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. E. BROWN, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificates of title, Vol. 107, folio 36, Vol. 108, folio 126, and Vol. 108, folio 118 (Taranaki Registry), for 3 roods and 6·9 perches, situated in Block V of the Mapara Survey District, being Lot 15 of Block I, and Lot 11 of Block IV, on Deposited Plan 4132, of the Town of Kopaki, and being part of the Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 68F 3A Block, and part closed road, in favour of CHARLES WILLIAM SIMPSON, of Auckland, Agent, 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 31st August, 1944.

Dated this 23rd day of August, 1944, at the Land Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. E. BROWN, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3)

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 :—

Auckland Theatres, Limited. 1925/134.
United Newspaper Service, Limited. 1936/164.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 25th day of August, 1944.

L. G. TUCK, 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 Taylor Made Shoe Stores, Limited. 1924/141.
Mizen and Co., Limited. 1929/85.
Waikato Auto-Motive Electric Company, Limited. 1937/156.
Lakelands Limited. 1941/103.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 25th day of August, 1944.

L. G. TUCK, 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 :—

Waikanae Cash Stores, Limited. 1938/230.
Hawke Brothers, Limited. 1938/148.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 29th day of August, 1944.

H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.