Feb. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 263

Description

These sections are situated in the Mackenzie Township (Cheviot) and comprise good building-sites. Sections 13 and 5 have frontage to Montgomery Street, Section 3 a frontage to Seddon Street, Section 19 a frontage to Reeves Street, and Section 20 comprises a corner section with frontage to Seddon and Hutchison Streets.

Term of Lease: Thirty-three years, with right of renewal at valuation.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

T. W. PRESTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 6/1/597; D.O. 14/12.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 20th February, 1945.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the sale of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Hokitika, at 3 o’clock on Thursday, the 14th day of March, 1946.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND CONSERVANCY—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 196 acres being part of State Forest No. 33, situated in Block XIII, Ahaura Survey District, and Block I, Kopara Survey District, Westland Land District, approximately fourteen miles from Ngahere Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 325,200, or in board feet 1,989,000, made up as follows:—

Species. Cubic Feet. Board Feet.
Rimu .. .. .. 325,200 1,989,000

Upset price: £1,825.
Time for removal: Eighteen months.

Terms of Payment

A marked cheque for a deposit of £340 together with £1 license fee must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in nine equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be made one month after the date of sale.

Special Conditions

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.

R. B. COLLETT, Conservator of Forests.

(S.F. 23/5/33/894.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 1s. 3½d. in the pound is now payable on all proved claims in the estate of STANLEY GUY MORTON, of Turangi, Lodge-proprietor.

W. PARKER, Official Assignee.

Wanganui, 13th February, 1946.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

TERENCE ALBERT HEAL, of Kakaramea, Farmer, was adjudged bankrupt on 15th February, 1946. Creditors meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Patea, on Friday, 1st March, 1946, at 2 p.m.

C. F. LUNDY, Official Assignee, Hawera.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

JOE ARANUI (also known as Temuera Aranui), of Pakipaki, Labourer, was adjudicated bankrupt on 11th February, 1946. Creditors meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hastings, on Monday, the 25th February, 1946, at 2.30 p.m.

A. J. BENNETTS, Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Napier.

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend is now payable in the undermentioned estate:—

Lumsden, Campbell McPherson, of Kaiwera, Sawmiller.—Third dividend on preferential claims for wages only of 1s. 1d. in the pound.

A. L. TRESIDDER, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—Supreme Court

FREEMAN RONALD RAINE, of Wellington, Motor-car Painter, was adjudged bankrupt on the 15th February, 1946. Creditors meeting Thursday, 28th February, 1946, at 10.30 a.m.

S. TANSLEY, Official Assignee.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 712, folio 334 (Auckland Registry), for Lot 110 on Deposited Plan 13131 (Town of Frankton Extension No. 43), being part of Allotment 37, Parish of Pukete, in favour of JEAN ELLEN DREADON, of Manurewa, Spinster, and of certificate of title, Vol. 295, folio 69 (Auckland Registry), for part of Lot 8, Deposited Plan 1722, being part of Allotment 3 of Section 13, Suburbs of Auckland, together with the right to drain through Lot 9 on the said plan as more fully set forth in Transfer No. 26361, in favour of WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT, of Auckland, Merchant, and of certificate of title, Vol. 270, folio 231 (Auckland Registry), for Lot 3 on Deposited Plan 11786, being part of Allotment 9 of Section 10, Suburbs of Auckland, in favour of EVELYN LIZZIE PALMER, of Auckland, Married Woman, having been lodged with me together with applications for new certificates of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such new certificates of title after fourteen days from 21st February, 1946.

Dated the 15th February, 1946, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.

R. F. BAIRD, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 130, folio 100, Taranaki Registry, for (now) Lot 2 on Deposited Plan No. 6086 and being part of Section 1 of Block XXII of the Town of Patea, whereof GUY WILLIAM THOMAS CORBETT, of Patea, Clerk, is the registered proprietor, 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 21st day of February, 1946.

Dated this 14th day of February, 1946, at the Land Registry Office, at New Plymouth.

W. E. BROWN, District Land Registrar.