APRIL 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1043

sleepers, posts, slabs, rails, fencing-stakes, palings, shingles, or firewood, within a virgin forest, or within any forest which contains milling-timber in quantity sufficient for milling or handsawing.

SPECIAL LICENSES.

Settlers’ licenses.

70. Licenses may be granted by the Conservator to settlers not entitled to free firewood, and to others, to cut firewood, fencing, shingles, and palings, after valuation and payment according to the schedule. Licenses to settlers entitled to free firewood shall be issued on application; but such license shall not entitle the settler to cut timber or firewood for sale, or for any other purpose than for fuel for himself and household. Only one license shall be held by any settler at the same time.

Licenses for charcoal, potash, tar, pitch, &c.

71. Licenses may be granted by the Conservator, on payment of fees to be fixed by him, to cut wood to burn for charcoal, or the extraction of potash, tar, pitch, or other secondary products; but the licensee shall observe such precautions as may be deemed necessary to prevent injury from fire, and he will be held responsible for any injury done to any forest by improper or negligent operations; and nothing herein shall entitle him to carry on any operations in any forest during the periods within which such forest is closed pursuant to these regulations. No person may hold more than one license at the same time, either directly or indirectly.

Licenses to peel bark.

72. Licenses to peel bark may be granted at the discretion of the Commissioner, but only under such terms and conditions as he may deem proper. No person may hold more than one license at the same time, either directly or indirectly.

Sleepers-cutting licenses.

73. Licenses to cut railway-sleepers for use on New Zealand railways may be issued by the Conservator on payment of a fee of 5s. per annum, payable in advance. Such license shall entitle the person named therein to split, cut, or hew railway-sleepers on the land mentioned and described therein; but such license shall not entitle the holder thereof to cut, split, or hew any timber included in any sawmill license, or in any license where the timber has been sold by appraisement at auction or otherwise, or on any land held under lease or license from the Crown. The license shall state the class or classes of timber to which it applies, and it shall expire at the period of twelve months from the date thereof.

74. Every holder of such a license shall pay a royalty of 3d. for every railway-sleeper so cut, split, or hewn, whether such sleepers are accepted by the Railway Department or not. Such royalty shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue before the sleepers are delivered to the Railway Department, and that Department shall require proof that the royalty has been paid before accepting the sleepers, or, failing such proof, shall deduct from the amount otherwise payable for the sleepers the royalty herein provided for, and shall pay the same to the Public Account.

75. If the holder of a special license hereunder shall cut, split, or hew timber for any other purpose than for railway-sleepers for New Zealand railways, or shall use any other timber than is stated