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Licences may be transferred from any site to another site; provided that no person shall carry on business in more than one place under one licence.

Marking out sites.

88. Occupants of sites for business purposes shall place and maintain at each frontage corner of such site a peg not less than three (3) inches square, and standing at least one foot above the surface of the ground.

Space between buildings.

89. An open space of six (6) feet shall at all times be left between buildings occupied for business purposes (except in reserved townships). The holder or occupier of a single business area or site shall only build upon thirty-four (34) feet of his frontage. The holder or occupier of two or more adjoining areas or sites may build upon forty (40) feet frontage for every additional area or site.

Registration of sites.

90. Business sites may be registered with the Warden for ten (10) days whilst the holder is engaged in preparing for the occupancy thereof; such registration may be renewed by the Warden for an additional period of ten (10) days, and such renewal shall be endorsed on the certificate and recorded in the registration book.

Occupancy of sites.

91. Business sites can only be held or occupied by holders of Business Licences, and no site can be held unoccupied for more than twenty-four (24) hours, unless the same shall be registered as in section 90.

Information to the public.

92. When any business site has been registered the holder shall post and maintain thereon a board, not less than nine (9) inches square, with the word “Registered” and the date and number of such registration legibly painted or written thereon.

Roadway between sites.

93. A space of sixty-six (66) feet shall at all times be left for a road or a street between business sites; and no person shall, on any pretence whatever, encroach upon such roadway.

Land may be set apart and surveyed for business sites.

94. The Warden may, whenever it shall be necessary for the public convenience, set apart land to be occupied for business purposes, and direct the Mining surveyor to divide such land by streets and roadways in the most convenient manner, and no person shall occupy any part of any land so set apart, except under a business license.

Business Licences in reserved townships.

95. Where any township site shall have been reserved by or for the native owners thereof, any person occupying land in any such township must, if carrying on business therein, be the holder of a Business Licence. And no person shall occupy any portion of any such township except by permission of the Warden, or unless he pays rent for the same.

TIMBER.

Miners to use timber for mining.

96. Any holder of a Miner’s Right will be allowed to use timber (other than kauri) for building or mining purposes or for firewood, provided that such firewood is procured within the limits of the block of native land upon which he is lawfully mining for the time being.

Kauri timber to be paid for, &c.

97. Any person requiring kauri timber must apply to the Warden, who will give permission to cut the same on payment to him of the sum of one pound five shillings sterling (£1 5s) for each tree required by the applicant. If any person shall willfully or negligently set fire to any forest, timber, scrub, or fern whereby kauri timber shall be killed or destroyed he shall pay fair compensation to the native owners thereof, which shall be ascertained and determined in the manner provided by section 18 of these regulations.

Timber licences.

98. Any person desiring to cut timber for firewood or fencing for sale shall make application to the Warden for a licence, and shall state the locality which he desires to cut timber within; and a copy of such application shall be posted for fourteen (14) days in at least two (2) conspicuous places on the ground and outside the Warden’s office. If no valid objection is made, the Warden may grant a timber licence on payment of a fee of five pounds sterling (£5) which shall be in force for twelve (12) months from the date thereof, and shall entitle the holder to cut any timber (except kauri or reserved trees) within the block of native land for which the licence is issued; provided that every person holding any such licence, and every person employed by him to cut timber, shall be the holder of a Miner’s Right issued or endorsed for the block of native lands within which such timber licence shall be in force.

Timber not to be felled so as to cause an obstruction.

99. If any person shall fell any tree or timber either intentionally or by undermining or other means, he shall remove it beyond the reach of floods so that it may not be drifted down any stream. If any person shall fell any timber on to any adjoining claim or on to any public or private road so as to cause an obstruction he shall immediately remove the same.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Depasturage of cattle.

100. No person will be allowed to depasture any cattle within the proclaimed gold-field, unless he be the holder of a Miner’s Right or carter’s license, and shall pay a