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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Crown Lands Ranger F, and only such timber as bears such brand shall be felled, cut, or sawn.

LICENSES TO HAND-SAWYERS, WOODCUTTERS, AND SPLITTERS.

47. Areas of from one to twenty acres may be granted to hand-sawyers on the same terms and under the same conditions as for sawmill 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 Commissioner of Crown Lands.

48. Licenses to cut firewood, or to split posts, rails, and fencing-stakes, on timber reserves when cleared of milling-timber may be granted within specified areas at the following rates: viz., For a license to cut firewood only, at the rate of £5 per annum per man; for a license to cut posts and rails, £7 10s. per annum per man; for a license to cut one or more kauri-trees, at schedule rates.

SPECIAL LICENSES.

49. Licenses may be granted to settlers not entitled to free firebote and to others to cut firewood, fencing, shingles, and palings, after valuation and payment according to the schedule. Licenses to settlers entitled to free firebote shall be issued on application.

50. Licenses for single trees or clumps of trees may be granted at the discretion of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, on payment of double rates, according to the scale in the Second Schedule hereto.

51. Licenses may be granted, on payment of fees to be fixed by the Commissioner, to cut wood to burn for charcoal, or the extraction of potash, tar, pitch, or other secondary products; but the licensee shall observe such precautions as may be deemed necessary to prevent injury from fire, and he will be held responsible for any injury done to any forest by improper or negligent operations.

52. Licenses may be granted to extract kauri-gum, under terms and conditions to be defined by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, but only in such forests as may be approved by him.

53. Licenses to peel bark may be granted at the discretion of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, but only under such terms and conditions as he may deem proper.

54. Licenses to quarry gravel, shingle, or road-metal in any forest reserve may be granted by the Commissioner of Crown Lands on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

55. Unless otherwise specified, a penalty of not exceeding £50 shall be inflicted for every breach of these regulations.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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

At per 100 sup. ft.
s. d.

Class I.—
Totara, matai, puriri, maire-raunui, and pohutukawa, not less than .. .. .. 2 0

Class II.—
Kauri, not less than 2 ft. in diameter .. .. 1 0
Under 2 ft. .. .. .. 0 6
Subject, however, to the right to sell by auction or by appraisement as provided in Regulation No. 43, et seq.

Class III.—
Totara and matai less than 25 ft. in length, and 12 in. in diameter, miro, rata, tangeao, tooth- and entire-leaved beeches, manuka (tea-tree), manoao, tanekaha, kawaka, kaikawaka, not less than .. .. .. .. 1 0

Class IV.—
Rewarewa, mapau, toro, hinau, taraire, not less than .. .. .. .. 0 6

Class V.—
Mountain- and silver-beech, not less than .. 0 6

Class VI.—
Rimu (red-pine), kahikatea (white-pine), kamai, tawa, not less than .. .. .. 0 6

Class VII.—
Puriri, totara, kauri, and matai posts to be charged under Classes I. to III. Per 100.
Other posts, rails, and sleepers .. .. 8 0
Fencing-stakes .. .. .. 4 0
Per Cord.
Firewood, not less than .. .. .. 1 0
No standing totara or black-pine, and no timber required or suitable for milling purposes, to be permitted to be cut under this class.

All the foregoing regulations shall come into force and take effect on and after the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and shall apply to forests generally.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in Taranaki for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto following the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Town of Stratford.