Weighted with £1,200 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising five-roomed dwelling, garage, implement-shed, sheep-dip, yards, 600 acres felled and grassed, 40 acres cultivated, 230 chains road and boundary fencing and 210 chains subdivisional fencing.

This is a grazing property situated on the Kakahi Road six miles from Roto Post-office and School, eight miles and a half from Tokirima Railway-station, and eight miles from the Ohura Saleyards; access is by metalled road from Ohura. The soil is light to fairly good loam on clay and sandstone formation; watered by springs and creeks. Approximately 100 acres ploughable, the balance being undulating to hilly and broken. Approximately 595 acres in good pasture, 90 acres in fair to rough feed, and 9 acres in shelter-bush. Subdivided into eight paddocks. There is a little ragwort under control.

(H.O. 26/1103; D.O. O.R.P. 493.)

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th November, 1944.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 5th December, 1944. Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 7th December, 1944, 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 for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position and farming experience.

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 weighting for improvements.

Section 4 may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on renewable lease under Part III of the Land Act, 1924; Run 245 may be selected on small-grazing run lease under Part V of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT—THIRD-CLASS LAND

Kaikoura County.—Hundalee Survey District

Section 4, Block VIII: Area, 1,179 acres. Capital value, £330.* Deposit on deferred payments, £30: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term: 34½ years), £19 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12 12s.

• Road-fencing to the value of £30 is included in the price of the land.

Weighted with £240 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising hut, 160 chains road-fence, 150 chains boundary-fence, and plantation.

This is a grazing proposition, which is situated off the Stag and Spey Road thirty-three miles from the Kaikoura Post-office, Railway-station, and Saleyards, and twenty-eight miles from Kowhai School, and is suitable only as an adjunct to an adjacent farm. The five-mile access road is of poor quality. The section is watered by permanent streams. 600 acres good, clear tussock and danthonia. Altitude from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft.

Small-grazing Run No. 245, Block XIII: Area, 2,846 acres. Half-yearly rent, £26 19s. 6d.*

• The value of a half-share in 400 chains boundary-fencing assessed at £75 and belonging to the Crown is included in the rental.

Weighed with £665 for improvements, comprising three-roomed dwelling, wool-shed, washhouse, and store, sheep-dip, water-supply, half-share of 180 chains boundary-fencing, 220 chains internal fencing, plantations, and 50 acres chopped and surface sown. This sum is payable in cash, or on such terms as may be previously arranged by the applicant with the State Advances Corporation. Applicants will require to produce evidence to the Land Board of the terms arranged.

This is a grazing property, which is situated off the Stag and Spey Road thirty-five miles from the Kaikoura Post-office, Railway-station, and Dairy Factory, and thirty miles from the Kowhai School, and is only suitable as an adjunct to an adjacent farm. The seven-mile access road is very inferior. Watered by permanent streams. Altitude from 1,300 ft. to 3,000 ft.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/17137; D.O. L.I.P. and S.G.R. 245.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 13th November, 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 Friday, 8th December, 1944.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

All the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 540 acres, situated in Block XV, Mawhera-nui Survey District, and Block XIII, Ahaura Survey District, S.F. No. 38, approximately eleven miles from Ngahere Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 782,500, or in board feet 4,652,000, made up as follows :-

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. 782,500 4,652,000

Upset price: £4,260.

Time for removal: Two years.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £420, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in twelve 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. 23/5/33/4.)

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of the outstanding copy of Memorandum of Mortgage No. 174491, affecting Lot 31, Deposited Plan 4553, being part of Allotment 76, Parish of Takapuna, and all the land in certificate of title, Vol. 190 folio 118 (Auckland Registry), whereof Kathrine Moore, wife of Stanley Moore, of Auckland, Clerk, is the mortgagor, and ELIZABETH ANN WILSON, of Auckland, Married Woman, is the mortgagee, having been lodged with me together with an application to register a transfer in exercise of the power of sale contained in the said mortgage without production of the outstanding copy thereof in terms of section 40 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, notice is hereby given of my intention to register such transfer after fourteen days from 16th November, 1944.

Dated this 10th day of November, 1944, at the Land Office, Auckland.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.