APRIL 11] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 475

SCHEDULE
NELSON LAND DISTRICT
Westport Borough.—Town of Westport
SECTION 810 (Westport Colliery Reserve): Area, 32·6 perches. Half-yearly rent, 15s.

The term of lease will be twenty-one years, with a perpetual right of renewal at revaluation at the end of each successive term of twenty-one years.

This is a flat building-site in the Town of Westport and fronts Peel, Balfour, and Salisbury Streets. There are no improvements.

Form of lease may be perused and any further information required may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

E. P. WAKELIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/337/64 ; D.O. T.R. 846.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES

Land in the Otago Land District acquired for a State Forest

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 10th April, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act, 1921-22, as a State forest.

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND CONSERVANCY

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, Bruce County, containing by admeasurement 26 acres 3 roods 27·2 perches, more or less, being Lot 2 on D.P. 5967, and being part of Section 101, Block XI, Tokomairiro Survey District (certificate of title, Vol. 317, folio 225). As the same is delineated on plan No. 215/2, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. R. ENTRICAN Director of Forestry.

(S.F. 9/7/41.)

Milling-logs for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 10th April, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that separate written tenders for the purchase of two lots of saw-logs, as more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, will close at the office of the State Forest Service at Rotorua at 3 p.m. on the 10th day of May, 1946. Each of the two lots will be sold separately upon the same terms and conditions as described in the Schedule.

Although public tenders will be received for both lots, preference will be given to returned servicemen or co-operative parties of returned servicemen in the case of one lot.

Tenderers will be required to offer a price per cubic foot for each species specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

ROTORUA CONSERVANCY.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

SAW-LOGS, not including logs required for plywood manufacture or other uses as determined by the Commissioner of State Forests (hereinafter referred to as the Commissioner), that are delivered for the purpose of this sale by the Crown from State Forest No. 58. The delivery of the logs will be commenced on the 9th day of September, 1946, or at such earlier date as may be mutually agreed upon. Logs will be delivered to a mill-site situated in Blocks IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Ahikereru Survey District, and will amount altogether to not less than 200,000 cubic feet and not more than 290,000 cubic feet annually commencing from date of sale. Logs will be subdivided into classes, and definitions of these classes and upset prices are as follows:—

Rimu, Miro, Kahikatea, and Totara

Class I.—Logs over 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with not more than 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defects.

Class II.—Logs between 6 ft. 6 in. and 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with not more than 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect, and all logs over 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with over 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect.

Class III.—Logs up to 6 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement and logs between 6 ft. 6 in. and 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with over 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect.

Upset Prices

Matai

Class I.—Logs over 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with not more than 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defects.

Class II.—Logs between 6 ft. 6 in. and 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with not more than 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect and all logs over 9 ft. 6 ins centre girth outside bark measurement with over 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect.

Class III.—Logs between 4 ft. and 6 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with not more than 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect, and all logs 6 ft. 6 in. to 9 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with over 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect.

Class IV.—Logs up to 4 ft. centre girth outside bark measurement and logs between 4 ft. and 6 ft. 6 in. centre girth outside bark measurement with over 25 per cent. of gross volume allowed as deduction for defect.

Upset Prices

The Commissioner reserves the right to adjust these prices consequent upon any price adjustments of timber being made pursuant to the Price Stabilization Emergency Regulations 1940.

TERM OF AGREEMENT

Four years, with the right to purchase for successive two-year periods thereafter during a period of twelve years a similar quantity of forest-produce in the form either of logs or of trees, that is to say: Upon the expiry of the four-year term during which the Commissioner undertakes to supply logs the purchaser shall have the right to purchase for successive two-year periods during the subsequent twelve-year period aforesaid, at such prices as the Commissioner may determine, forest-produce either in the form of logs or trees as the Commissioner may decide not less in quantity than the biennial average quantity purchased during the said four-year term.

Deposit and Terms of Payment

As a guarantee of good faith a marked cheque to yield the sum of £1,000 (one thousand pounds) must accompany the tender, and shall be returned if the tender is not accepted. In the case of the purchaser the sum yielded by the cheque shall be deposited in the Receiver-General’s Deposit Account as security against default in payment for the logs purchased as herein provided, and the interest thereon shall be paid to the purchaser from time to time. The said sum at the conclusion of milling-operations shall be returned to the purchaser in toto, or be used in payment for the last month’s supply of logs, any surplus being returned to the purchaser.

In addition the purchaser shall, within 28 (twenty-eight) days of notification of acceptance of his tender, deposit with the Conservator of Forests, Rotorua (hereinafter referred to as the Conservator), further securities to the value of £1,000 (one thousand pounds), to be held against default in payment for the logs purchased as herein provided or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the sale agreement or any subsequent license or agreement. Should payment be made regularly, and should the terms and conditions hereinafter set out be faithfully observed, the said securities shall be returned to the purchaser at the conclusion of milling-operations. The said securities may be by marked cheque, inscribed stock, Government bonds, or in other form acceptable to the Commissioner, and (if in cash) will be invested and the interest paid to the purchaser as aforesaid.

Measurement of Logs

Logs will be measured by officers of the State Forest Service, and the quantities of timber in cubic feet will be assessed from the measurement made on each log of its girth at mid-length outside bark to the nearest complete inch, fractions being omitted, and its length to the nearest complete foot, odd inches being omitted, the volume being calculated in accordance with the New Zealand State Forest Service Log Scale. Although logs will be delivered in the longest possible lengths suitable for transporting, the maximum log-length for measurement purposes will be 24 (twenty-four) ft., and longer lengths will be calculated as two or more separate logs of approximately equal length, save that no butt logs will be measured at a point less than 7 ft. from the butt end.

An allowance of 4 in. for cross-cutting will be made on logs ranging from 24 (twenty-four) ft. to 32 (thirty-two) ft. in length, and on account of each complete 16 (sixteen) ft. log-length obtainable from logs of a length of 33 (thirty-three) ft. or over. The Forest Officer will make such deductions for defective logs as in his opinion are reasonable, and in cases of dispute the Conservator’s decision shall be final.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. The sales will be made in accordance with the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921-22, the regulations in force thereunder, and the terms and conditions in this notice.

2. The State Forest Service shall deliver on to the mill-skids or log-storage sites (the position of which will be notified from time to time to the purchaser) sufficient logs during each four-weekly period to average per working-day in the forest not less than 900 cubic feet and not more than 1,200 cubic feet, and the purchaser shall accept delivery of all logs so supplied.