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15. If any license-holder shall, for the purpose of
    removing timber, have made a tramway or road upon
    land being waste lands of the Crown, and not being
    a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person
    to use the same without permission of the person
    making the same first obtained: Provided that if
    such road shall not be used at any time for ninety
    consecutive days for removing timber, it shall be
    lawful for the Waste Lands Board to determine that
    the constructor of the tramway has forfeited his
    right to the same: Provided also that, as regards
    tramways, the Board reserves to itself the power of
    deciding on the merits of each case as it arises.

16. Licenses cannot be transferred without the
    consent of the Board first obtained, transfer fee
    being ten shillings.

SAW-MILLS.

Exclusive right to cut timber on waste lands of
the Crown may be granted for saw-mills on the follow-
ing conditions:—

17. Every application for such exclusive rights
    shall be made by the applicant at the Land Office,
    Invercargill, in a form to be prescribed by the Board,
    and be accompanied with a sketch as near as may be
    of the land required; and the Board may either
    grant or refuse the license, or any part thereof, or
    put the license of the land up to auction at an upset
    price, to be fixed by the Waste Lands Board as a
    bonus in addition to the license fee.

18. The area within which exclusive right to cut
    timber shall be granted for the erection of any saw-
    mill shall (except as hereinafter mentioned) be esti-
    mated at ten acres for each horse-power of the engine,
    with a reserve for four years’ cutting inclusive of
    the first year, in similar proportion to the first year’s
    grant; and as regards shape shall be a rectangular
    block of a depth of not less than double the breadth,
    the Board reserving to itself the power of determin-
    ing the frontage and the extent of area to be granted,
    such being regulated by the size, position, &c., of
    the bush; any licensee found cutting outside the
    boundary of his license shall be liable to a penalty of
    £20 and forfeiture of his license. It shall be lawful
    for the Board to grant firewood or fencing licenses
    within such area, such licenses to authorize the cut-
    ting and removing the remainder of the felled timber
    abandoned by the saw-miller, or timber unsuitable for
    saw-mill purposes, but not to cut down any standing
    trees suitable for the saw-mill; firewood or fencing
    licenses not to interfere with the operations of the
    saw-miller. Saw-millers may cut firewood and fencing
    on their applications, at the rates named in sections 6
    and 7, entering the same in their monthly returns.

19. Within fourteen days the Waste Lands Board
    shall determine whether such application shall be
    granted, and the applicant shall forthwith deposit
    with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board the
    amount of survey fees, and a deposit in cash or properly
    marked banker’s cheque on the following scale:—

    10 to 12 horse-power engine ... £ 50
    13 to 15 ,, ,, ... £ 75
    16 to 20 ,, ,, ... £100
    Above 20 ,, ,, ... £200

Such deposit to be forfeited if the mill is not erected
within six months from the date of granting the
application; deposits to be returned on certificate of
the Inspector of Forests that the necessary plant is
on the ground within the stipulated time, when the
applicant will get his license, from which date the
licensee’s four years will commence.

20. As soon as practicable after the payment of
    such deposit, the Chief Surveyor shall cause the
    application to be surveyed, and its boundary lines
    cut. The survey to be conducted in every respect
    in accordance with Survey Regulations in force at
    the time.

21. The fee chargeable under every such license
    shall be at the rate of threepence (3d.) for every
    hundred superficial feet cut during the currency of
    the license, and shall be paid monthly: Provided
    that if any rent due remain unpaid for more than
    six days, the license shall be deemed to be cancelled,
    and the bush open for application, without any notice
    being given to the licensee. A saw-mill licensee not
    to be at liberty to cut timber for any other than saw-
    mill purposes previous to his erecting the necessary
    saw-mill machinery.

22. A fee of five pounds shall be paid to the Receiver
    of Land Revenue on the transfer of such license.

23. Every such license shall be drawn so as to
    terminate on the 31st day of December in each year,
    and may be renewed from year to year, but subject
    to such alterations in the Regulations as may be
    found necessary for the better management and
    utilization of the forests. Provided that before the
    issue of any renewed license the licensee shall pro-
    duce a certificate from the Inspector of Forests, or
    other person duly appointed by the Waste Lands
    Board on that behalf,—

(1.) That the bush has been cut fairly, and that
all available for saw-mill purposes has been
used.

(2.) That the saw-mill has been kept continu-
ously in operation, when not stopped by
causes considered unavoidable by the Board.

(3.) That no trees or saplings under one foot in
diameter have been cut, except as provided
by section 8, or destroyed by the act of, or
by the neglect of, the licensee or his servants,
and that none of the provisions of “The
Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865,” and
the Amendment Acts, 1867 and 1875, or the
by-laws of the Waste Lands Board have
been violated.

(4.) And if it shall appear that these Regula-
tions have not been complied with, or that
any wrongful acts have been done by the
licensee, then the Waste Lands Board shall
appoint a valuator to ascertain and assess
the amount of damage which the forest,
whether under license or not, may have
sustained by such wrongful acts; and no
new license shall be granted until the
amount of damage so assessed shall have
been paid, in addition to the sum due by
way of rent and expenses of valuation.

(5.) If at any time during the currency of the
yearly license the Inspector of Forests shall
report that the timber on the licensed
ground is being unfairly cut, the license
may be suspended pending investigation,
and cancelled if it is found that the Timber
Regulations have been infringed.

24. The licensee shall keep a production book,
    showing the total number of superficial feet, without
    any classification, passing through the saw-mill each
    day, or hewn timber, and exhibit the same on demand
    of any person authorized by the Waste Lands Board,
    and shall furnish a correct copy of it to the Inspector
    of Forests on or before the seventh day of each suc-
    ceeding month, in the form prescribed in the Schedule,
    the penalty for omitting to make a return, or making
    a false return, being forfeiture of the license and a
    penalty of five pounds.

25. Holders of a license to give all information
    whatsoever as to boundaries, position of cutting, &c.,
    that may be required by the Inspector of Forests, or
    any person authorized by the Commissioner of Crown
    Lands.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

26. No person to cut down or otherwise injure