JULY 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1007

The Rev. JAMES DUNCAN,
FRANCIS ROBINSON,
GEORGE NYE
PATRICK NEYLOR, and
THOMAS UPPARDINE COOK
as Trustees of the Foxton Public Cemetery.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Southland Land District Timber Regulations.

General Crown Lands Office.
Wellington, 26th July, 1882.

THE following regulations and by-laws made by
the Land Board of Southland, in pursuance of
Part IV. of "The Land Act, 1877," as to the con-
ditions under which licenses to cut timber may be
issued, are published for general information.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

HAND SAWYERS, WOOD-CUTTERS, ETC.

1. Applications for timber licenses shall be made
   at the Land Office, Invercargill.
2. Each application shall state the particular pur-
   pose for which the license is required, and the reserve
   in which the timber is to be cut; and, on its being
   granted by the Southland Land Board, the applicant
   shall immediately pay the prescribed fees to the
   Receiver of Land Revenue, and obtain a license.
3. The area granted to any licensee shall be con-
   fined to the bush named in the application, the locality
   and extent being fixed by the Board, and shall extend
   only to lands of the Crown which have been or here-
   after may be appropriated for timber reserves, in
   accordance with the provisions of any Waste Lands
   Act in force in the Southland Land District, and any
   Act amending the same. Any licensed person cutting
   timber beyond the limit of his area will be considered
   as unlicensed, and prosecuted accordingly.
4. A fee of £5 will be charged for a license for
   twelve months for each hand sawyer, whether felling,
   cutting, sawing, or drawing timber for sale, and no
   license shall be granted for a shorter term than six
   months. The annual licenses to date from and after
   the 1st January, and the half-yearly ones from and
   after the 1st July, in each year, each terminating on
   the 31st December same year. In no case shall the
   charge be less than for half a year.
5. An annual fee of £2 shall be paid by any settler
   cutting firewood or splitting shingles for domestic
   use, but not for sale.
6. Licenses may be issued to settlers and others
   cutting firewood for sale at £1 per twenty cords.
7. Licenses may be issued for splitting timber for
   fencing purposes, for private use or for sale, at £2
   per 500 posts or rails; no pine or totara sapling to
   be cut.
8. No tree to be cut or disposed of without a
   special license for the purpose, the fee under such
   special license being £1 each tree of one foot and
   upwards in diameter, and 15s. for each tree below
   one foot in diameter; nor shall such be removed
   before being branded by the Conservator or Ranger
   of Forests. No manuka poles suitable for fencing
   purposes to be cut for firewood, under penalty of £10.
9. Every holder of a license to cut timber must
   exhibit such license to the officer appointed in that
   behalf whenever he may be called on to do so, or to
   any constable in the district, and on his refusal will
   be considered as unlicensed, and prosecuted accord-
   ingly.
10. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may cause
    to be seized all timber cut on Crown lands, wherever
    found, which he may have cause to believe has been
    cut by an unlicensed person; but in case a right to
    such timber shall be asserted within fourteen days
    after the notice hereafter mentioned, and shall be
    established to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands
    Board, it shall be restored to the claimant.
11. All timber when seized shall be marked with
    the broad arrow, and, after due notice of the seizure
    thereof in writing, to be posted up in the land office
    or at the police station in the district where such
    seizure was made, shall, in case no claimant shall
    appear and establish his claim within fourteen days
    therefrom, be sold in such manner and subject to
    such conditions as the Waste Lands Board may
    direct.
12. All timber cut under a yearly or half-yearly
    license must be removed within six weeks after the
    expiration of the license, and that cut under firewood,
    fencing, or special licenses within three months after
    date of licenses, unless an extension of time be
    granted by the Board, otherwise it may be declared
    forfeited, seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown.
13. The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized
    are to be accounted for and paid over to the Receiver
    of Land Revenue.
14. If any person duly licensed shall have esta-
    blished a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no
    other person shall cut timber within one hundred
    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 twenty-eight consecutive days, it shall be
    lawful for any other holder of a license to enter
    thereupon and to cut timber as though such pit had
    not been established; or if such person should only
    cut timber to such extent within the twenty-eight
    days as would appear to the Board to be done merely
    for the purpose of excluding others, and not utilizing
    the forest, the Board may in such case cancel the
    license.
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 10s.

SAW-MILLS.
Exclusive right to cut timber on waste lands of the
Crown may be granted for saw-mills on the following
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 nearly as may
be of the land required, and a deposit of £10, to be
forfeited if the application is abandoned; and the
Board may either grant or refuse the license or any
part thereof, or put the application to auction at an
upset price to be fixed by the Waste Lands Board, as
a bonus in addition to the royalty fees.
18. The area within which exclusive right to cut
timber shall be granted for the erection of any saw-
mills shall not exceed two hundred acres in terms of
section 90 of "The Land Act, 1877;" 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 determining the frontage and the