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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 84

Excluding Land from the Te Kaha Development Scheme

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 13th day of January, 1932, and published in Gazette No. 6 of the 21st day of January of the same year at page 115, whereby the provisions of section 522 of the Native Land Act, 1931 (now Part I of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936), were applied to, inter alia, the said land, and such land is hereby excluded from the Te Kaha Development Scheme.

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SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Waiariki Native Land Court District, containing 1 acre, more or less, called or known as Raekahu 22B, Section 1, and situate in the Whangaparaoa Survey District.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1944.

G. P. SHEPHERD,
F. H. WATERS,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

(N.D. 1/3/19.)

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Excluding Land from the Heretaunga Development Scheme

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 27th day of November, 1931, and published in Gazette No. 92 of the 10th day of December of the same year at page 3463, whereby the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929 (now Part I of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936), were applied to, inter alia, the said land, and such land is hereby excluded from the Heretaunga Development Scheme.

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SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Ikaroa Native Land Court District, containing 22 acres 0 roods 30 perches, more or less, called or known as Matahiwi 3B, and situate in the Clive Survey District.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1944.

G. P. SHEPHERD,
F. H. WATERS,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

(N.D. 1/6/1.)

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Excluding Land from the Whareongaonga Development Scheme

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 25th day of January, 1938, and published in Gazette No. 5 of the 27th day of the same month at page 121, whereby the said land was, inter alia, declared to be subject to Part I of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, and such land is hereby excluded from the Whareongaonga Development Scheme.

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SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Tairawhiti Native Land Court District, containing 36 acres 2 roods 3·6 perches, more or less, situate in Block I, Paritu Survey District, and called or known as Whareongaonga C 12 Sub. 4B.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1944.

G. P. SHEPHERD,
F. H. WATERS,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

(N.D. 1/4/20.)

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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 8th day of September, 1944, ordered that the name of Leonard James Osborne Arthur be struck off the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and that he pays the sum of twenty guineas costs.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of October, 1944.

A. R. C. CLARIDGE,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 17th October, 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 Friday, the 3rd day of November, 1944.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 73 acres, situated in Block VIII, Waitaha Survey District, Provisional State Forest 1630, approximately ten miles from Ross Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 280,200, or in board feet 1,771,000, made up as follows :—

Upset price : £1,815.

Time for removal : Two years.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £365, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in ten 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 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 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. 23/5/1630/1.)

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand held at Auckland

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned companies (in liquidation), together with the reports of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sittings of the said Court, to be held on Friday, the 27th day of October, 1944, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for orders releasing me from my administration of the said companies :—

Loyal Limited (in Liquidation).

The Consolidated Tobacco Company, Limited (in Liquidation).

A. W. WATTERS, Official Liquidator.