✨ Waste Lands Regulations & Forms
for one year, together with the costs of re-
covering the amount of the same.
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Every license for cutting or removing
timber shall be issued for one month, or for
one year, at the request of the person apply-
ing for the same; and a fee of 10s shall be
paid upon every monthly license, and of £5
upon every yearly license. -
A license shall entitle no one but the
person named therein to cut down standing
timber, but it will authorise him to employ
any number of persons during the term of the
license, to saw, split, or remove the timber so
cut; and such license shall not be transfer-
able. -
A license to cut timber shall extend
only to the district named therein. -
If any person duly licensed shall have
established a saw-pit for the purpose of saw-
ing timber, no other person shall cut timber
within 50 yards of such pit without consent
of the person first occupying such saw-pit,
provided that if the person establishing such
pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut
timber within such distance as aforesaid from
the pit for 28 consecutive days, it shall be
lawful to any other holder of a license to
enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though
such pit had not been established. -
If any person shall for the purpose of
removing timber, have made a road upon land
being the Waste Lands of the Crown and not
being a highway, it shall not be lawful for
any other person to use the same without the
permission of the person making the same
first obtained, provided that if such road
shall not be us dat any time for 90 consecu-
tive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of
a license my time thereafter to use the
same. -
If any person holding a timber license
shall be proved before the Waste Lands Board
to have offended against any regulations
herein contained respecting timber, or to have
wilfully or negligently injured or destroyed
by fire or otherwise any timber belonging to
the Crown, such license shall be, and shall
be immediately declared to be forfeited, and
it shall be at the discretion of the board to re-
fuse to issue another timber license to the
same person.
SCHEDULES.
SCHEDULE A.
Province of}
Canterbury.
LICENSE TO OCCUPY TOWN LANDSS.
WHEREAS of
hath been duly declared the purchaser for the
sum of pounds,
shillings, and pence, of the section of
the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter
described, and hath this day paid to
the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board
of the Province of Canterbury the said sum
of pounds, shillings,
and pence, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, Now KNOW ALL
MEN THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that We, in pur-
suance of the powers vested in us as Com-
missioners of the said Waste Lands Board
do hereby authorise and empower the said
his heirs or assigns, at any time after
the date thereof, to enter upon all that sec-
tion of land situated in street, in the
town of 'marked No. in
the authenticated map of the said town in
the Crown Land's Office and containing
acres, or thereabouts, being the sec-
tion of land so purchased as aforesaid, and
to hold and enjoy the same for his and their
absolute use and benefit.
Given under our hands at
th sitting of the Waste
Lands Board held at
on the day
of 1856.
SCHEDULE B.
LICENSE TO OCCUPY RURAL LAND.
WHEREAS of
hath been duly declared the purchaser for the
sum of pounds
shillings, and pence, of the section
of the W aste Lands of the Crown herein after
described, and hath this day paid to
the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board of
the Province of Canterbury, the said sum
of pounds shillings and pence, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged. Now KNOW ALL MEN,
AND THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that We, in
pursuance of the powers vested in us as Com-
missioners of the said Waste Lands Board do
hereby authorise and empower the said
his heirs or assigns, at any time after the date
hereof to enter upon all that section of land
situate and bounded as hereinafter described,
that is to say,
and to hold and to enjoy the same for his and
their absolute use and benefit, subject never-
theless to the Regulations now in force for the
sale, letting, disposal and occupation of the
Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province
of Canterbury.
Given under our hands at
the sitting of the Waste
Lands Board held at
on the day
1856.
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Continuation of Canterbury Waste Lands Regulations, Timber License rules, and Land Occupation Schedules A and B.
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey9 February 1856
Timber licenses, Saw-pit regulations, Road usage, Waste Lands Board, Town land purchase, Rural land purchase, Canterbury Province
NZ Gazette 1856, No 4