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32. A saw-mill license may be transferred on payment of a fee of £1 1s. to the Receiver of Land Revenue, but the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have power to refuse to transfer any license if the licensee has committed a breach of the regulations.

33. The licensee shall have the right to erect a saw-mill and other necessary buildings, on a site to be approved by the Chief Conservator, but shall carry out such measures as may be deemed necessary to prevent injury from fire. No saw-mill shall be erected in any plantation nor in any forest under renewal.

REGULATIONS FOR THE ISSUE OF LICENSES TO HAND-SAWYERS AND SPLITTERS.

34. Areas of from one to twenty acres may be granted to hand-sawyers on the same terms and under the same conditions as for saw-mill licenses under 100 acres, but no such license shall be made for a longer period than two years. Hand-sawyers and splitters shall have the right to construct saw-pits and huts on sites approved by the Chief Conservator.

WOOD-CUTTERS’ LICENSE.

35. Licenses to cut firewood or to split posts, rails, and fencing stakes on timber reserves when cleared of milling timber shall be granted after valuation and payment according to the classified scale.

SPECIAL LICENSES.

36. Special licenses may be granted to settlers and others to cut firewood, fencing, shingles, and palings after valuation and payment according to the classified scale.

37. Special licenses for single trees or clumps of trees may be granted at the discretion of the Chief Conservator, on payment of double rates, according to the classified scale.

38. Special licenses may be granted on payment of the ordinary fees prescribed in the Second Schedule to cut wood, to burn for charcoal, or the extraction of potash, tar, pitch, or other secondary products, on sites to be pointed out by the Forester; but the licensee shall observe such precautions as may be deemed necessary by the Forester to prevent injury from fire.

39. Special licenses may be granted to extract resin under terms and conditions to be defined by the Chief Conservator, but only in such forests as may be approved by him.

40. Licenses may be granted to dig for kauri gum in such places only and under such terms and conditions as the Chief Conservator shall see fit.

41. Special licenses to peel bark may be granted at the discretion of the Chief Conservator, but only under such terms and conditions as he may deem proper.

42. Special licenses to quarry gravel, shingle, or road metal in any State forest reserve may be granted by the Chief Conservator in special cases, but only under such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary.

43. Unless otherwise specified, a penalty of not exceeding £50 shall be inflicted for every single breach of these regulations, in addition to the amount of any damage which may have been caused by such breach.

44. Timber of any kind growing on special-license areas must be paid for according to the classified scale.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CLASSIFIED SCALE OF TIMBERS.

ROYALTY shall be paid by the purchasers of timber in State forests according to the following classification:—

At per 100 sup. ft.

Class I.—
Totara and matai exceeding 40ft. in length and 2ft. in diameter at the base .. .. .. 2 0

Class II.—
Totara and matai from 25 to 40ft. in length and from 1ft. to 2ft. in diameter at the base, puriri, maire-raunui, and pohutukawa .. .. .. 1 6

Class III.—
Kauri .. .. .. .. .. 1 3

Class IV.—
Totara and matai less than 25ft. in length and 12in. in diameter, miro, rata, tangeao, tooth-and entire-leaved beeches, manuka (tea-tree), manoao, tanekaha, kawaka, kaikawaka .. 1 0

Class V.—
Rewarewa, mapau, toro, hinau, tarairi .. .. .. 0 9

Class VI.—
Mountain- and silver-beech .. .. .. 0 6

Class VII.—
Rimu (red-pine), kahikatea (white-pine), kamai, tawa .. .. .. .. .. 0 3

Class VIII.—
Puriri, totara, kauri, and matai posts to be charged under Class I. to IV. Per 100.
Other posts and rails .. .. .. .. 4 0
Fencing stakes .. .. .. .. 2 0
Per cord.
Firewood .. .. .. .. .. 1 0

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land taken for Construction of Defence Works at Bastion Point, Provincial District of Auckland.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of August, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the Government work known as the construction of defence works at Bastion Point, Provincial District of Auckland, shall and may be constructed on or through the parcel of land more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13900, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amended Conditions of Village Homestead Special Settlements on Perpetual Lease.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of September, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-third section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations for fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any special settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to revoke the Order in Council which was issued on the second day of June last past, and to make other regulations for the disposal of land in village homestead special settlements on perpetual lease:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby revoke the Order in Council of the second day of June aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent I do hereby fix the following terms and conditions as those upon which village homestead special-settlement blocks shall be disposed of on perpetual leasing, and the mode of payment for the same.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE land to be selected under these regulations shall be held on perpetual lease for the first term of thirty years, and for subsequent terms of twenty-one years, without any right of acquiring the freehold.

2. The rental shall be based on the capital value of the land, which shall in no case be less than £1 an acre.

3. No charge will be made for the lease, which shall be in the form in the Schedule hereto, beyond the sum of 10s. for registering the same in the Land Transfer Department.