APRIL 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 925

8. If, by retirement, 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.

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

10. The words “great cattle” shall be construed to mean and include cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male or female, and their offspring above six months of age; and the words “small cattle” shall be construed to mean sheep, male and female, and their offspring above the age of six months.

11. License-holders may run great or small cattle upon the lands described in the First Schedule upon the conditions mentioned in the depasturing license, to be obtained as hereinafter provided.

12. Persons desirous of obtaining a depasturing license must lodge with the Receiver of Land Revenue at Lawrence an application in writing in the form or to the effect contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and deposit therewith the 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:—

For every head of great cattle mentioned s. d.
in the license, if such license is issued before 1st July .. .. .. 10 0
For every head of great cattle mentioned in the license, if such license is issued after 1st July .. .. .. 5 0
For every head of small cattle mentioned in the license, if such license is issued before 1st July .. .. .. 2 6
For every head of small cattle mentioned in the license, if such license is issued after 1st July .. .. .. 1 3

Every such license shall be in the form or to the effect contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall expire on the thirty-first 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, such 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, and the brand 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 one shilling. But if the brand 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 five pounds.

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 the 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.

Tuapeka Commonage.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,300 acres, more or less, bounded towards the north generally by Block XVIII., Tuapeka East Survey District, running due east from the eastern boundary of Blue Spur Township to a public road, by the said public road and by Section No. 12, Block XIX., of the said district to its easternmost corner, by a public road from the said corner to the westernmost corner of Section No. 30 of the said Block XVIII., again by the last-mentioned block and Block XIII. to a public road forming the western boundary of Section No. 51, Block X., of the said district; towards the east generally by the last-mentioned road, by Sections Nos. 54 and 7 of the said Block X., by Crown land, by Sections Nos. 76 and 70 of the said Block X., by a public road, by the western boundary of the Township of Wetherstone, and by the main road from Wetherstone to Lawrence to the intersection of the northern boundary of the last-named township; towards the south by the said northern boundary to Section No. 26, Block XIX., Tuapeka East Survey District; towards the west generally by the last-mentioned section, by a public road, by Section No. 89 of the said Block XIX., and by the crossing of a public road; again towards the south by a public road, the crossing of the same, and by the northern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 20 and 30 of Block XIX. aforesaid; again towards the east by the last-mentioned section, and by Section No. 1 of the said Block XIX. to the road forming part of the northern boundary of the said Town of Lawrence; again towards the south by the last-mentioned road, and again towards the west generally by a public road, by Sections Nos. 33, 27, 35, 31, 10, 80, 79, and 78 of Block XIX. aforesaid, by the abutment of a public road, by Sections Nos. 44, 77, 76, of Block XIX. aforesaid, by the abutment of a public road, by Section No. 73 of the said Block XIX., and by the eastern boundary of Blue Spur Township aforesaid, to the southern boundary of the said Block XVIII., the place of commencement: exclusive of Section No. 25, an occupation license held by Simon Fahey, a grazing-right held by Pilling Brothers, and residence areas held by Michael Whelan, Michael Nash, Edward Roughan, Patrick Cassidy, Daniel Lynch, Simon Fahey, and Ronald McColl, all in Block XIX., Tuapeka East Survey District, and which are within the above described boundaries: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 23689, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered purple.

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 Tuapeka Commonage, Tuapeka 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 deposit herewith 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, £ , Receiver of Land Revenue.

(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 Tuapeka Commonage, in the County of Tuapeka, the following—[Insert description of cattle as to number, brands, &c., in respect of great cattle]; and has paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue 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, Tuapeka Commonage.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.