JUNE 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1313

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 mentioned 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:—

Per Annum.

The first head of great cattle run by each license-holder, provided it is a milch cow .. 3 0
All other great cattle mentioned in the license .. .. .. 4 0
For every head of small cattle .. .. .. 1 0

Every such license shall be in the form or to the effect contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall expire on the 31st 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 Chairman of the Committee.

15. The revenue derived from license fees or otherwise from the said commonage shall stand first charged with the cost of the destruction and prevention of the spreading of rabbits upon such commonage; said 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 or ear-marked, and the brand or ear-mark, 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 1s. But if the brand or ear-mark is registered 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 depastured without the express permission in writing of the Chairman of the Committee. Any person or persons committing 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 exceeding £5.

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 lands, and also to any penalty or disability imposed in respect of unlawful 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.
Waikaka Commonage.

All that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 642 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less, being Sections Ncs. 12, 14, and 17, Block XIV., Chatton Survey District. Bounded generally towards the north by a public road; towards the east by Sections 15, 44, and 16 in the said block; towards the south generally by public roads and by Sections Nos. 18, 11, and 9 in the said block; and generally towards the west by public roads, the Township of Waikaka, and Section 1 of 14 in the same block: as the same is more particularly delineated on the map deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Invercargill.

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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 in the Waikaka Commonage, Southland County, 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 prescribed fee for such license in respect of each head of such cattle in accordance therewith.

Dated this day of , 190 .

Name in full: .
Address: .
Occupation: .

Received, £ .
, Postmaster.

(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 Waikaka Commonage, in the County of Southland, 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, 190 , and is issued subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the said regulations.

Dated at , this day of , 190 .
, Chairman of Committee, Waikaka Commonage.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Temporarily reserving Land in the Southland Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Land District of Southland, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Sections Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block XVIII., Town of Riverton. Bounded towards the north-west by High Street, 300 links; towards the north-east by Section No. 2, 250 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 15, 50 links; again towards the north-east by said Section No. 15, 100 links; again towards the south-east by Section No. 7, 250 links; and towards the south-west by Lansdowne Place, 350 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 48344, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red. For purposes of public utility.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land District of Canterbury.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned: