Mar. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 627

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—AROWHENUA TOWNSHIP.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand
nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Regulations for the Occupation of Pastoral Lands within the
Hauraki Mining District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section four of “The Land Act, 1892,” and by section
thirty-eight of “The Mining Act, 1898,” I, William Lee, Baron
Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby revoke a Warrant making regulations for the occupa-
tion of pastoral lands in Hauraki Mining District, dated the
fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and
three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nine-
teenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three,
and a Warrant amending such regulations dated the thirty-
first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth
day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five, and do
hereby declare that the following shall be the regulations under
which pastoral licenses may be granted within such portions
of the boundaries of the Hauraki Mining District as lie within
the Counties of Coromandel, Thames, and Ohinemuri :—

REGULATIONS.

Interpretation: In these regulations, unless inconsistent
with the context, the word “licensee” includes “his heirs
and assigns.”

1. Application may be made for any of the Crown lands
   within such portions of the Hauraki Mining District as lie
   within the Counties of Coromandel, Thames, and Ohinemuri,
   excepting timber and other public reserves, and the areas de-
   scribed in the Schedule attached hereto.

2. The area which may be applied for under these regula-
   tions shall not be less than 25 acres nor exceed 1,000 acres,
   and shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of
   pasturage over the lands specified in the license, but shall
   give no right to the soil, timber, minerals, or kauri-gum.

3. The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land Dis-
   trict of Auckland may, with the approval of the Land Board,
   grant pastoral licenses under these regulations for a total
   area not exceeding 1,000 acres to any person of the age of
   seventeen years and upwards who may apply for the same.
   All lands held by one lessee under these regulations must be
   contiguous.

4. Annual rent payable under the license shall be a sum
   to be fixed by the Land Board of the Auckland Land Dis-
   trict (hereinafter referred to as “the Land Board”), but shall
   be not less than 3d. per acre per annum, payable half-yearly
   in advance to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Auckland.
   The first half-year’s rent must be accompanied with the lease
   fee of £1.

5. Term of license to be twenty-one years, and upon the
   expiration of the term it shall be competent for the Land
   Board to grant a renewal for twenty-one years over the whole
   or part of the area comprised in the license, upon such terms
   as they think fit, subject to the Warden’s approval and section
   207 of “The Land Act, 1892.” Such license shall be issued
   subject to the terms and conditions, as nearly as may be,
   contained in section 199 of the said Act.

6. No deposit of survey fees shall be required, except in
   exceptional cases, which shall be determined by the Land
   Board, who shall also fix the amount of deposit, which shall be
   in accordance with the scale of fees for the Survey of Crown
   lands, and such deposit of survey fees shall be credited to the
   lessee as rent. Pastoral areas to be defined where possible
   by ridge or other natural boundaries already determined by
   the mining surveys made for mining claims.

7. The licensee shall have the right to the use of the surface
   soil only of the demised land, for the purpose provided for
   in his license, as already set forth in Regulation No. 2.

8. The licensee shall have no right, either himself or through
   any other person, to fell, cut, sell, remove, or otherwise dis-
   pose of any kauri, totara, puriri, matai, rimu, mangeao, pohu-
   tukawa, or other reserved trees being on the land included
   in his license, except in conformity with the regulations under
   the Mining Acts for the time being in force.

9. The licensee shall not be entitled to fell, cut, or remove
   any timber growing on the land comprised in his license,
   except for his domestic use, or for fencing or clearing for
   cultivation; and no trees exceeding 2 ft. in diameter are to
   be cut down without the special permission of the Warden.

10. The licensee shall, by virtue of his pastoral license,
    acquire no rights to mine for gold, silver, or any other metals
    or minerals whatsoever, without first obtaining the sanction of
    the Warden in the manner provided for by the mining laws.

11. The holders of miners’ rights shall have the right to
    prospect over the whole area held under pastoral license, and
    for that purpose to enter and camp thereon, and to use mining-
    timber (not being reserved trees) and firewood growing thereon,
    so long as they are legitimately engaged in prospecting; but
    any prospecting carried on upon the cultivated area sur-
    rounding the dwelling of the licensee, as limited by condition
    No. 13 hereof, shall be subject to the provisions of sec-
    tions 72 and 73 of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

12. The Warden shall have the right to grant any mining
    privilege or easement in and over the land comprised in a
    pastoral lease, subject to the compensation for improvements
    as provided for in “The Mining Act, 1898,” and its amend-
    ments.

13. No previous consent shall be required from the licensee
    to enable the Warden to grant any application which may be
    lawfully made to him under the Mining Act or regulations
    for the time being in force in and over the lands comprised
    in a pastoral license, unless the applicant encroaches upon
    the area containing the dwellinghouse or immediately sur-
    rounding the same, provided the dwelling is of a substantial
    nature, the land in cultivation, and surrounded by a substantial
    fence. For the purpose of this proviso, and for the purpose
    of condition 11 hereof, the area to be protected to the
    licensee around his dwelling shall be 15 acres. Provided,
    however, in all cases where the area which otherwise would
    be protected is not cultivated or substantially fenced, then
    so much only of the area as is substantially fenced or
    cultivated shall be protected.

14. The Warden shall have the power from time to time
    to make such reserves as he may deem necessary, and the same
    shall thereupon be excluded from the land comprised in a
    pastoral license, and rent shall be proportionally reduced as
    set forth in Regulation No. 16, and the Warden may do all
    such other things as may in his opinion be of benefit to the
    resident community, or may in any way conduce to the
    advancement of the mining industry or of the persons engaged
    therein.

15. The Crown and the local bodies shall have the right to
    survey and take all lands necessary for the construction of
    roads on the demised pastoral lands, and compensation only
    for the value of substantial improvements made by the
    licensee will be paid in case of land resumed for public
    purposes.

16. For all land resumed for public or mining purposes a
    reduction proportionate to the acreage resumed on future
    annual rentals shall be made.

17. Applications to transfer a license under these regula-
    tions shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands,
    and shall be subject to the approval of the Land Board. No
    transfer will be allowed until permanent improvements have
    been effected to the value of 2s. per acre upon the area held
    under the license. Such permanent improvements shall in-
    clude reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush and scrub
    (not required by the Warden for mining purposes, or of trees
    of a specified size, as in Regulation No. 9), gorse, broom, or
    sweetbriar, grassing, cultivation, planting with trees and live
    hedges, the laying-out and cultivating of gardens, fencing,
    grassing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks,
    sheep-dips, making embankments or protective works of any
    kind, in any way improving the character or fertility of the
    soil, or the erection of any building at lessee’s option upon
    the protected area of 15 acres, as described in Regulation
    No. 13.

18. Forfeiture of all licenses may ensue if payment of
    rental is not made within three months of the date it is due,
    or if the licensee fails to effect substantial improvements to