1862
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

2. Applicant shall forward at the same time, on printed form provided on application to the Land Office, a statement of—

(a.) The cutting-capacity of the mill ;
(b.) The output during the past year ;
(c.) The name of survey district or parish in which the timber applied for is situated ;
(d.) The quantity of timber on hand at time of application, whether situated on freehold, leasehold, Crown land, Native land, or reserves, whether absolutely acquired or held under right of purchase, whether standing or already felled ; and
(e.) The application is to be accompanied by a lithograph, tracing, or sketch-plan showing the position of the timber applied for.

3. The timber shall be measured by an officer of the Government, and shall be disposed of by appraisement.

4. All marketable kauri timber shall be included in the measurement if in the opinion of the Commissioner there is danger of loss by fire if the same is not removed with the rest.

5. No mill-owner shall be allowed to take up timber by appraisement if the quantity applied for, together with the quantity already held under clause 2, subsection (d), of these regulations, exceeds three times the annual output of the mill.

6. All the timber granted by appraisement under these regulations shall be cut up by the particular mill it has been granted for, and, excepting under written consent of the Commissioner of State Forests first obtained, none of the timber shall be disposed of to others before cut up by the said mill.

7. Timber to be removed as under :—
   Not exceeding one million feet, within one year ;
   Not exceeding three million feet, within two years ;
   Not exceeding six million feet, within three years ;
   Not exceeding ten million feet, within four years.

8. Payment for timber to be made in cash on approval of application, or, at the option of the purchaser, as follows :—
   For half to one million feet, half in cash on granting of application and half in six months ;
   For one to three million feet, one-third in cash on granting of application, one-third in eight months, and one-third in sixteen months ;
   For three to six million feet, one-fifth in cash on granting of application, one-fifth in seven months, one-fifth in fourteen months, one-fifth in twenty-one and one-fifth in twenty-eight months ;
   For six to ten million feet, one-fifth in cash on granting of application, one-fifth in nine months, one-fifth in eighteen months, one-fifth in twenty-seven months, and one-fifth in thirty-six months.

All payments to be secured in such manner as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall approve.

9. Timber not removed within the period stated shall revert to the Crown, but the Commissioner of State Forests may grant an extension of time for a period not exceeding three years on payment of not less than 5 per cent. per annum on the prairie or net value of the land on which the timber is standing or lying, subject to such conditions as the Court may impose.

Application for Sawmilling Tender by Appraisement.

I, __, hereby apply that __ superficial feet of kauri timber be allotted to me by appraisement.

The position of the timber applied for is shown in red on the lithograph, tracing, or sketch-plan attached hereto.

It is intended to cut the timber at the __ Mill, situated on __, in the __ District, concerning which I attach statement as to output, timber on hand, &c., on the form provided by the Department.

This __ day of __, 190__.

Statement required from Mill-owners who apply for Timber by Appraisement.

Name of mill, __, situated in __ District, within __ miles of __ Township, and close to or fronting __ River.

Capacity, __ million feet per annum.

Output during last year, __ million feet.

Details of total quantity of timber now in hand for cutting at the above mill :—

Feet.

Total quantity on hand ..

I, __, hereby certify that the above is a correct statement as regards the __ Mill, for which application is now made to obtain __ million feet of kauri timber by appraisement.

Name : __

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Khandallah Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of August, 1903.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears ; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of the land hereinafter mentioned, delegate all the powers conferred by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, for the period of ten years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), to the undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Khandallah Domain Board, namely,—

Arthur O’Neill O’Donahoo,
Charles Thomas Harold Brown,
Albert Evans Bybles,
Samuel Crisp Gace Vickers,
Maurice Pollock Cameron,
Frederick William Mansfield,
Leonard Greenwell Reid,
Josephus Hargreaves Richardson,
Maurice Crompton Smith,
Alexander Ferguson
William Cock, and
His Worship the Mayor of Onslow (ex officio),

(herein referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Monday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the Schoolhouse, Khandallah, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the third Monday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

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

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

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 31 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Allotments Nos. 2 and 3 of Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Porirua District, situated in Block XI., Belmont Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Allotment No. 1 and a public road ; towards the south-east