Timber Control Notice No. 59

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939* and the Timber Emergency Regulations 1939†, the Timber Controller hereby requires and directs as follows:

1. This notice may be cited as Timber Control Notice No. 59.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 29th day of July, 1946.
2. No proprietor or owner, within the meaning of the Timber Emergency Regulations 1939, shall use, sell, supply, dispose of, or part with the possession of any “first class” (heart) or “clean medium” kauri timber except with the precedent consent of the Timber Controller.
3. Every proprietor shall, within the first seven days of each calendar month, deliver to the Timber Controller, Box 1, Government Buildings, Wellington, a statement of the sizes and quantities of the said timber held by him at the end of the immediately preceding month.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1946.
ALEX. R. ENTRICAN, Timber Controller.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/131, page 599.
  † Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/148, page 670.
  (T.C. 1/17/37.)

CROWN LANDS NOTICE

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 16th July, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 19th August, 1946.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 20th August, 1946, at 10 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 documentary evidence of their farming experience and financial position.

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 amount of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND
Whangarei County.—Parua Survey District
SECTION 54, Block IX : Area, 178 acres. Capital value, £270. Deposit on deferred payments, £20 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments (term : twenty years), £10 7s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 8s.

Weighted with £50 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising half-share of 143 chains of boundary fencing.

This property, which when developed should be suitable for dairying, is situated about fourteen miles from Whangarei with access by tar-sealed and metalled road. The land is practically all undulating in fern, scrub, and rushes. Approximately 20 acres semi-volcanic with surface stone, and the balance is gum land. The section is watered by a stream on the southern boundary. Power is not yet available in this district, although the main transmission line passes through one corner of this section.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

B. KING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/4382 ; D.O. R.L. 2232.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES

Land in the Southland Land District acquired for a Permanent State Forest

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 9th July, 1946.

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

SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND CONSERVANCY
ALL that area in the Southland Land District, Wallace County, containing by admeasurement 1,220 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Sections 13, 14, 18, 96, 177, and 204R, and parts of Section 204, Block XII, Wairio Survey District, and being the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 158, folio 245. As the same is delineated on plan No. 201/2, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. R. ENTRICAN, Director of Forestry.
(S.F. 9/7/40.)

Saw-logs for Sale by Public Tender

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 17th July, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of alternative quantities of saw-logs, comprising (a) not less than 200,000 cubic feet and not more than 290,000 cubic feet annually (hereinafter referred to as one lot), or (b) not less than 400,000 cubic feet and not more than 580,000 cubic feet annually (to be considered as two lots for the purpose of this notice) will close at the office of the State Forest Service at Rotorua on the 29th day of July, 1946, at 3 p.m.

Each lot will be sold upon the terms and conditions as described in the Schedule hereto.

Although public tenders will be received, 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 shall mean 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 20th day of January, 1947, 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, or XIV, Ahikereru Survey District. 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 in. 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 by the Price Tribunal or other authority.

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.