New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 32

Page 1057

✨ Forest Regulations

April 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1057

Persons trespassing liable to penalty of £50.

(a.) Any person who shall trespass in any forest shall be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50. (b.) Any person, whether a licensee or not, who may be found trespassing in any forest during the months of November, December, January, February, and March in the North Island, and during the months of December, January, and February in any forest in the South Island, or who shall do any act whereby there is a danger of the forest being destroyed by fire, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall upon conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50. (c.) Nothing in this regulation shall restrict the holder of any sawmill license in felling and removing timber within the area granted to him, during any such period, if not prohibited therefrom by the terms of his license.
The Commissioner may give written permission to such persons as he shall think fit to enter into any forest during a specified period for any purpose stated in such permission, but such person shall not be thereby relieved of any liability to observe and conform to the rules and conditions set forth in these regulations.

£50 penalty for shooting birds or animals without permission.

No person shall, without the written permission of the Commissioner, carry or use any gun or firearm, or use any engine, net, instrument, or other device, or use any dog, for the capture or destruction of any bird or animal, or take the eggs or young of any bird in any forest. Any person acting contrary to this regulation shall upon conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50; and the Commissioner, or any Forest Ranger, may seize any gun, firearm, net, engine, instrument, or device found in the unlawful possession of any person so trespassing in any forest, and any dogs found in the forest may be destroyed by such officer.

Official brand.

Whenever a Commissioner in any case shall deem it advisable to use an official brand, this shall consist of the device CF branded on a space exposed by the removal of a chip near the base of the tree.

Trees to be cut above official brand.

Disputes as to statement or valuation of timber cut.

In the event of any dispute arising as to the correctness of any valuation of timber, or as to the correctness of any statement of timber cut, where royalty or other payment has to be made by a licensee, the decision of the Minister shall be final; and, in the case of any dispute as to the quantity of timber cut, the decision of such Minister as to the amount to be paid shall be forthwith complied with, subject, however, to the right of the licensee to proceed in any Court of competent jurisdiction for the refund of any sum alleged to be overpaid.

Licensee to indicate extent of cutting.

Every licensee shall point out the extent of his cutting when required so to do by any Commissioner or Forest Ranger.

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