1456
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

8. If, by retirement, resignation, death, or incapacity, or
   otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant,
   the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint
   a Chairman.

9. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
   votes of the members of the Committee present at a meeting.

10. The words "great cattle" shall be construed to mean
    and include cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male or female,
    and their offspring above six months of age; and the words
    "small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male and
    female, and their offspring above the age of six months.

11. License-holders may run great or small cattle upon the
    lands described in the First Schedule upon the conditions
    mentioned in the depasturing license, to be obtained as
    hereinafter provided.

12. Persons desirous of obtaining a depasturing license
    must lodge with the Receiver of Land Revenue at Duntroon
    an application in writing in the form or to the effect con-
    tained in the Second Schedule hereto, and deposit therewith
    the license fee payable hereunder. If such application be
    refused the fee shall be refunded to the applicant.

13. The Committee shall have power to refuse to grant
    any license, also to limit the number of cattle which may
    be depastured under any license. They shall also have
    power to specify the kind of cattle which may be depastured
    under any license.

14. The number of cattle to be depastured shall be men-
    tioned in the license, and the rent to be paid in respect of
    such license shall be calculated upon the following scale,
    that is to say:—

For every head of great cattle s. d.
mentioned in the license .. 4 0 per annum.
For every head of small cattle .. 1 0 "

Every such license shall be in the form or to the effect con-
tained in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall expire on
the thirty-first day of December in every year, when such
license may be renewed in accordance with the foregoing
provisions. Every license shall be granted subject to the
conditions herein set forth, and shall be signed by the Chair-
man of the Committee.

15. The revenue derived from license fees or otherwise
    from the said islands shall stand first charged with the cost
    of the destruction and prevention of the spreading of
    rabbits upon such islands, such cost to be ascertained in
    such manner as may be fixed and determined by the Chief
    Inspector of Stock.

16. All cattle depastured must be branded, and the brand
    and a description of the cattle must be registered with the
    Ranger. The Ranger shall issue a certificate of registration
    in such form as he thinks fit, and the fee for every such
    certificate shall be one shilling. But if the brand is regis-
    tered with the application, no further registration shall be
    necessary.

17. No great cattle suffering from any disease shall be
    depastured upon, nor shall any pigs or goats be allowed to
    trespass or be at large upon or within the lands described in
    the First Schedule. No bull, ram, or stallion shall be de-
    pastured without the express permission in writing of the
    Chairman of the Committee. Any person or persons com-
    mitting a breach of this provision shall be liable, on the
    information of such Chairman as for trespass of cattle on
    Crown lands; and the Chairman of Committee for the time
    being is hereby empowered to lay any such information.

18. If any licensee shall at any time commit or suffer a
    breach of the conditions or terms upon which the license is
    granted, as the same are herein set forth, the Chairman of
    the Committee may, on such evidence as he thinks fit,
    cancel and determine the license held by such licensee, and
    he shall have no claim to any refund or allowance in respect
    thereof.

19. No person shall remove beyond the boundary of the
    land described in the First Schedule any cattle other than
    those belonging to him, or for the removal of which he shall
    have authority from the Ranger, under a penalty not ex-
    ceeding five pounds.

20. If any person, not being licensed as aforesaid, shall
    depasture any great cattle or small cattle upon the lands
    described in the First Schedule, or a greater number of such
    cattle than shall have been apportioned to him, every such
    person shall be liable, on the information of the Chairman
    of Committee, as for trespass of cattle on Crown land, and
    also to any penalty or disability imposed in respect of un-
    lawful occupation of Crown land.

21. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to interfere
    with the powers or duties of the Commissioner of Crown
    Lands of the district in which the lands described in the
    First Schedule are situated, whether under "The Land Act,
    1892," or under any other law or statute for the time being
    in force; and the said lands described in the First Schedule
    hereto shall, subject to the special provisions hereinbefore
    made, remain and be Crown lands for the purpose of the
    said Act, and subject thereto.

First Schedule.

All the Crown lands situated in the bed of the Waitaki
River between the Otekaike River and the Kurow River,
save and except the islands lying opposite Sections 33761,
Block I., and 36278, Block II., Meyer Survey District, in
the Canterbury Land District, and known as Run 204.

Second Schedule.

(1.) Form of Application.

Pursuant to the regulations made under "The Land Act,
1892," I hereby apply for a license to depasture [Here insert
number] head of cattle upon the Otiaka portion of
the Waitaki Islands, such cattle being or to be forthwith
branded as follows—viz., [Here insert description of stock,
colour, sex, and brand of each]; and I agree to pay the pre-
scribed fee for such license in respect of each head of such
cattle in accordance therewith.
Dated this day of , 189
Name in full:
Address:
Occupation:
Received: £ , Receiver of Land Revenue.

(2.) Form of License.

Pursuant to the regulations made under "The Land Act,
1892," [Name, address, and occupation of licensee] is hereby
licensed to depasture on the Otiaka portion of the Waitaki
Islands the following—[Insert description of cattle as to
number, brands, &c., in respect of great cattle]; and has paid
the sum of £ for issue of this license, being at the
rate of for each head of stock. This license is to be
in force until the 31st December, 18 , and is issued
subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the said
regulations.
Dated at , this day of , 189 .
Chairman of Otiake (Waitaki
Islands) Committee.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this eleventh day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rules and Regulations for the Management of the Nutuawa
portion of the Waitaki Islands.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by section 4 of "The Land Act, 1892"
(hereinafter termed "the said Act"), the Governor
is empowered to make, alter, or revoke rules, regulations,
and orders for, among other things, the care, management,
and protection in every manner of all unoccupied Crown
lands: And whereas it is expedient to make regulations for
the care and management of the Crown lands hereinafter
described: Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said
Act, do hereby make the following rules, regulations, and
orders for the care and management of the Crown lands
within the banks of the Waitaki River, and known as the
Nutuawa portion of the Waitaki Islands, described in the
First Schedule to such regulations, and do hereby declare
that such regulations shall come into force on the day of
the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purpose of carrying out these regulations the
   following persons are appointed a Committee for the care,
   management, and protection of the said islands,—

ALEXANDER FORBES, of Waitaki South, Settler;
NICHOLAS O'TOOLE, of Waitaki, Farmer;
CHARLES WESLEY, of Waitaki, Maori Chief;
BARNABAS BATTERSBY, of Enfield, Farmer; and
JOHN HENDERSON, of Waitaki, Farmer,

who shall be known as the "Nutuawa (Waitaki Islands)
Committee" (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee").
Three of such Committee shall retire by ballot in December
in each year, but they shall be eligible for reappointment as
hereinafter provided.

2. On the first Wednesday in January in each year an
   election shall take place from among the holders of licenses
   to depasture cattle or stock upon the said islands (herein-
   after termed "licensed holders"), for the purpose of electing
   three members of the Committee instead of the three retiring
   members; and the names of such persons, when so elected,
   shall be submitted to the Governor for approval, and if so
   approved they shall take the place of the three retiring
   members.

3. The Committee shall meet for the transaction of busi-
   ness on the first Wednesday in each month, at two o'clock