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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.—
MOEHAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

• Inferior broken land, covered with mixed forest, and well watered; slate formation. Situated near Waiaro, seven miles from Cabbage Bay.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

• Hastings Survey District. † Coromandel Survey District.

Sections 12 and 13, chiefly broken forest land, on Tawhetarangi Creek, near Cabbage Bay. Sections 1, 5, and 2, generally mixed-forest and open land; situated at Kaimarama, Mercury Bay.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Declaring that the Lands within the Midland Authorised Area are open for Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the power conferred by section three of “The Midland Authorised Area Land Settlement Act, 1900,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and after the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one, the lands within the Midland authorised area described in the Schedule to the said Act are open for selection.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Making a Regulation for the Issue of Special Licenses to cut Railway-sleepers.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the regulation contained in the Schedule hereto, and such regulation shall be read with the regulations of the twelfth March, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.

61. LICENSES to cut railway-sleepers for use on New Zealand railways may be issued on payment of a fee of 5s. per annum, payable in advance. Such license shall entitle the person named therein to split, cut, or hew railway-sleepers on the land mentioned and described therein; but such license shall not entitle the holder thereof to cut, split, or hew any timber included in any sawmill license, or in any license where the timber has been sold by appraisement at auction or otherwise, or on any land held under lease or license from the Crown. The license shall state the class or classes of timber to which it applies, and it shall expire at the period of twelve months from the date thereof. Every holder of such a license shall pay a royalty of 3d. for every railway-sleeper so cut, split, or hewn, whether such sleepers are accepted by the Railway Department or not. Such royalty shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue before the sleepers are delivered to the Railway Department, and that department shall require proof that the royalty has been paid before accepting the sleepers, or, failing such proof, shall deduct from the amount otherwise payable for the sleepers the royalty herein provided for, and shall pay the same to the Public Account.

If the holder of a special license hereunder shall cut, split, or hew timber for any other purpose than for railway-sleepers for New Zealand railways, or shall use any other timber than is stated in such license, or shall attempt to sell and deliver sleepers to the Railway Department without having first paid the royalty thereon as herein provided, or shall wantonly damage or destroy any bush, timber, or trees other than as may be necessary in felling trees for railway-sleepers, or shall wastefully use any trees so felled so that as many sleepers as possible are not obtained therefrom, or if any unlicensed person shall cut, split, or hew railway-sleepers on any land to which this regulation applies, then in any such case such licensee or person shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds (£20), and the Commissioner of Crown Lands may in his discretion cancel such license, or suspend it for any period he may think fit: Provided that nothing herein shall operate to prevent the seizure of timber illegally cut on lands to which this regulation applies.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.