✨ Waste Land Regulations
NEW ZEALAND
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1870. No. 662.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT having approved of the following Regulations made by the Waste Land Board of the Province of Otago, made under the provisions of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866 Amendment Act 1869,” directs the same to be published for general information.
JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to the Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
April, 1870.
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The number of cattle placed after the name of each Hundred in the first column of the Statement hereunder written, shall be the quantity of cattle capable of being depastured on the Waste Lands within such Hundred.
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The number of Cattle specified in the column of the said statement headed “Cattle Allowed to be Depastured,” opposite the names of the several persons to whom Licenses have been issued or who are entitled to have Licenses issued to them in each Hundred, shall be the number of Cattle which may be depastured for the year 1870 by the persons respectively whose names are specified in the second column of the said statement, on such persons respectively paying the Assessment mentioned in the said Act.
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Five sheep may be run instead of every head of great Cattle.
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Any Licenseholder who, prior to the 1st day of June next, shall not have depastured on the Hundred the full quantity of the stock he is entitled to depasture, may at any time before the 1st day of June 1870, place such number of stock thereon as (together with the quantity previously depastured by him if any) will make the total quantity depastured by him equal to that in the column of the said statement headed “Cattle Allowed to be Depastured,” apportioned to him: Provided that within three days after such additional stock shall have been placed on the Hundred, a return shall be forwarded to the Waste Land Board, shewing the number, description and brands of such additional stock.
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Any Licenseholder may be required by the Ranger at any time to make a return in the form provided in the Schedule to the Regulations made by the Waste Land Board and published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 19th day of January last past, and any person who shall fail to make such return for a period of 24 hours after being required so to do, or who shall make a false return, shall be liable to a penalty of £20.
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An Assessment of 3s. 6d. for great cattle, and 7d. for small, will be payable to the Provincial Treasurer, at his Office in Dunedin, on or before the first day of June next, for all cattle depastured on the Waste Lands within any Hundred.
Approved by the Waste Land Board,
8th April, 1870.
J. T. THOMPSON,
Chief Commissioner.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1870, No 662
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🗺️ Waste Land Board Regulations for Depasturing Cattle
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey8 April 1870
Cattle, Depasturing, Waste Lands, Licenses, Assessment, Otago
- JOHN LOGAN, Secretary to the Superintendent
- J. T. THOMPSON, Chief Commissioner