New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 32

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✨ Sawmilling Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

the survey to be made in accordance with such regulations as the Surveyor-General may prescribe. A plan of such survey shall be indorsed upon the license, and no licensee shall cut outside the limits of the area surveyed except under Regulation No. 40.

Payment for timber.

Upon the application being granted by the Commissioner the applicant shall, as may be agreed, pay the value of the timber included in the area to the Receiver of Land Revenue, or execute such agreement as may be prescribed, after which a license may be issued.

Sawmill area may include one side of a watershed.

The area of a license to cut and saw kauri or other large timber may include the whole or part of one side of a watershed within specified limits, and the Commissioner may dispose of such kauri or other timber growing within such limits, to be sawn at a mill erected within or adjacent to the said area, or to be removed for manufacture elsewhere.

Royalty: terms of payment.

It shall be optional with the Commissioner to decide whether the royalty shall be paid either wholly or partly before the issue of a sawmilling license or during its continuance. Such royalty shall be paid in cash, or partly in cash and the balance by instalments spread over such period as the Commissioner may think expedient; and the said royalty may be assessed either on the estimated number of superficial feet of milling-timber in the forest or be assessed in any other manner the Commissioner thinks fit.
In cases where the royalty is payable on the actual output of the mill, such output shall be ascertained and verified by inspection of the books of the mill, or by such other means as the Conservator may require, and for this purpose the accounts and books shall be open to the inspection of any Conservator, Forest Ranger, or other duly authorised officer, and the Conservator may in addition require the licensee to supply monthly accounts, verified by affidavit, showing clearly the output of the mill.

Transfer of license.

A sawmill license may be transferred on payment of a fee of £1 1s. to the Receiver of Land Revenue; but the Commissioner shall have power to refuse to transfer any license if the licensee or transferee has committed a breach of these regulations, or if, in the opinion of such Commissioner, the transfer would be prejudicial to the public interest.

Licensee must erect sawmill and keep it working, or license will be forfeited.

The holder of every sawmill license other than for kauri must, within six months of the date of his license, provide and fit up, either upon his sawmill area or on some other site approved of or granted by the Conservator, a substantial and fully equipped sawmill plant, including all the necessary buildings thereto appertaining, which sawmill plant shall be of sufficient capacity and shall be kept in continuous working operation, unless valid and satisfactory reasons can be given to the Conservator for any temporary stoppage.

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