APRIL 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1039

50. Should at any time the mill be closed for a longer time than the Conservator thinks necessary or reasonable, it will be competent for him to give the licensee one month’s notice in writing, and, should the licensee fail or neglect to resume and continue the bona fide working of the mill, the Commissioner may declare the license forfeited, and may immediately reoffer for license by public notification the sawmill area and the attached reserve as if the rights of the previous licensee had never existed. The licensee may within three months from the date of forfeiture, however, remove any building or machinery he may have erected.

51. The Commissioner may extend the time for the erection of a sawmill to twelve months from the date of license, if satisfied that such extension is reasonable and that the licensee has used every endeavour to insure the erection of the sawmill within six months from the date of his license.

Original license to be surrendered before reserved area entered upon.

52. A sawmill licensee wishing to apply for a license to cut timber upon his reserved area must notify the Conservator not less than three months before the date of the expiry of the license he then holds, or before the date he is prepared and entitled to surrender the same, when the Conservator shall cause the new area to be surveyed and the timber thereon to be valued; and, on the licensee’s surrender of his old license, a license to cut on the new area shall be granted to him: Provided, however, that the Commissioner may, within a period of six months from the date of the surrender, permit him to remove any remaining timber purchased and then on the land, or may permit him to work his mill, or use such tramways or roads upon the land so surrendered, for any period not exceeding twelve months from the date of surrender, or for any longer period if necessary to satisfactorily cut and remove timber on any reserved area the licensee may be working on in place of the original area, and upon such conditions as may, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be necessary for working such mill, but not further or otherwise; and the land so surrendered may, subject to such permit, be leased, replanted, or otherwise disposed of as the Commissioner shall think fit.

One area must be properly cut out before another will be granted.

53. Nothing herein shall give a licensee any right to apply for a license for any reserved area, or to surrender any area he holds for the purpose of obtaining the same, unless the Commissioner, upon the report of the Conservator or otherwise, is satisfied that all suitable milling-timber that can reasonably be cut has been removed by the licensee from the area to be surrendered by him.

When license stipulates erection of mill, timber not to be removed until mill erected.

54. No timber other than what is necessary for work in connection with the establishment of a sawmill shall, in cases where it is stipulated that a sawmill shall be erected, be removed from the area under license until such times as the milling plant is erected thereon.

Date of license.

55. The license, for the purpose of fulfilling conditions, is to date from the time the applicant is notified of completion of survey, or from the date of the license when no survey is required.