1008

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 65

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 not exceeding £20, to be
recovered under clause 89 of "The Land Act, 1877,"
and forfeiture of his license. All trees standing close
to the surveyed boundaries to be felled inwards, so as
not to destroy the survey lines: any infraction of this
rule to bar extension of license. It shall be lawful
for the Board to grant firewood or fencing licenses
within any such area, after abandonment; such
licenses to authorize the cutting and removing all
left timber; such licensees to pay £1 per 500
posts or rails, and 10s. per twenty cords of firewood.
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 for £50. Such
    deposit to be forfeited if the mill is not erected
    within six months from the date of granting the
    application, unless the time be extended by the Board.
    Deposits to be returned on certificate of the Inspector
    or Ranger 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: Provided always
    that no timber shall be cut for sale before the issue of
    the license.

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 minimum rate of 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 local saw-mill
    purposes, except as per section 8.

22. A fee of £5 shall be paid to the Receiver of
    Land Revenue on the transfer of such license.

23. Every such license terminable within any year
    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 produce a certificate from the Inspector
    or Ranger 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 contin-
uously 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 for sale, 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 Land Acts in force in the Southland Land
District, or any Act amending the same, or
the by-laws of the Waste Lands Board, have
been violated;

(4.) And if it shall appear that these regulations
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 or Ranger of
Forests shall report that the timber on the
licensed ground is being unfairly cut, the
license may be suspended pending investiga-
tion, and cancelled if it is found that the by-
laws or regulations have been infringed.

24. The licensee shall keep a production-book,
    showing the total number of superficial feet, properly
    classified, passing through the saw-mill each day, or
    logs, 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
    or Ranger of Forests on or before the 7th day
    of each succeeding 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 not exceeding £50, to be
    recoverable under clause 93 of "The Land Act, 1877.',

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

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

26. No person to cut down or otherwise injure any
    trees not required by him for local saw-mill purposes,
    except as per section 8; and if it shall appear to the
    Inspector or Ranger of Forests that any of the regu-
    lations have been infringed, or that the timber has
    been negligently or wilfully injured or destroyed by
    fire or otherwise, he shall immediately give notice of
    the same at the office of the Waste Lands Board, and
    shall temporarily suspend the license of the party
    offending; and if the Commissioners shall judge that
    such infringement has been wilful, then the license
    shall be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of
    the Board to refuse to allow the issue of another
    license to the same person or persons.

27. Any person who shall cut timber without a
    license, or who shall continue to saw or cut timber
    after any payment shall have become due and shall
    not be paid, or after the Inspector or Ranger of
    Forests, by reason of any alleged breach of these
    regulations, shall have given him notice to discontinue
    cutting, shall be treated as an unlicensed trespasser.

28. Where the terms "land," "bush," or "bush
    land" are used in the foregoing regulations the bush
    or timber only is meant.

29. A penalty not exceeding £20 will be inflicted
    for every single breach of the above by-laws, ex-
    cepting those enumerated under clauses 17 to 25,
    both inclusive, and summary proceedings will be
    adopted to recover the same under Part V. of "The
    Land Act, 1877."

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.