Sections in Clinton—At the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, 16th July next, at noon.

Sections in Newhaven—At the Crown Hotel, Balclutha, on Tuesday, the 15th July next, at noon.

Sections in Blair Ferry—At the Survey Office, Naseby, on Monday, the 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Mataura Bridge—At the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, the 16th July next, at noon.

Sections in Wyndham—At the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, the 16th July next, at 1 p.m.

Sections in Tapanui—At the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Waipahi—At the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Tokomairiro—At the Survey Office, Milton, on Tuesday, the 15th July next, at noon.

Sections in Tuapeka—At the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 14th July next, at 2.30 p.m.

Sections in Tokomairiro—At the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, 16th July next, at noon.

Sections in Bruce—At the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Maniototo—At Black’s, Maniototo, on Wednesday, the 16th July next, at noon.

Sections in Naseby—At the Survey Office, Naseby, on Monday, 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Maerewhenua—At the Survey Office, Naseby, on Monday, the 14th July next, at noon.

Sections in Ophir—At Blyth’s, Maniototo, on Monday, the 21st July next, after the townships.

TIMBER REGULATIONS, SOUTHLAND.

Passed by the Waste Lands Board on the 10th December 1874. In accordance with Clause XVI. of ‘The Southland Waste Lands Amendment Act 1867’—

V. D. Handyside, Wood Cutter, &c.

1. Applications for Timber Licenses shall be made at the Land Office, Invercargill.

2. Each application shall state the particular purpose for which the license is required, and the reserve in which the timber is to be cut; and on its being granted by the Waste Lands Board, the applicant shall immediately pay the prescribed fee to the Receiver of Land Revenue and obtain a license.

3. The area granted by each license shall be confined to the bush nearest in application, the locality and extent being fixed by the Board, and shall extend only to lands of the Crown which have been, or hereafter may be appropriated for timber reserves in accordance with the provisions of ‘The Southland’ Waste Lands Act, 1865, Amendment Act, 1867,’ and licensed person cutting timber beyond the limit of his license will be considered as unlawfully and trespassing accordingly.

4. A fee of ten shillings per month shall be charged for each person, whether falling, cutting, sawing, splitting or drawing timber. A fee of five shillings shall be charged for a horse or two-wheel dray; an annual fee of two pounds shall be paid by any settlers cutting timber, or for each dray, servant in their employment, for the improvement of land in their own occupation, or firewood for domestic use, but not for sale.

5. Every holder of a license to cut timber must exhibit such license to the officer appointed in that behalf whenever he may be called on to do so; and on his refusal, will be considered as unlicensed and prosecuted accordingly.

6. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may cause to be seized all cut timber lying on Crown Lands which he may have cause to believe has been cut by an unlicensed person; but in case a right to such timber shall be asserted within fourteen days after the notice hereafter mentioned, and shall be established, same satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or officer seizing the same, it shall be restored to the claimant.

7. All timber, when sawn, shall be marked with the broad arrow, and after due notice of the seizure thereof in writing to be posted up in the Land Office, or at the Police Station in the district, where such seizure was made, shall, in case no claimant shall appear and establish his claim within fourteen days therefrom, be sold in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Waste Land Board may direct.

8. All timber cut under a yearly license must be removed within sixty weeks after the expiration of the license, and under a monthly license within one fortnight, otherwise it may be declared forfeited, seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown.

9. The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized are to be accounted for and paid over to the Receiver of Land Revenue.

10. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut timber within one hundred yards of such saw-pit without consent of the person first occupying such saw-pit: Provided that if the person establishing such saw-pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut timber within such distance as aforesaid from the pit for twenty-eight consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established; or if such person should only cut timber to such extent within the twenty-eight days as would appear to the Board to be done merely for the purpose of excluding others, and not utilising the forest, the Board may in such case cancel the license.

11. If any license holder shall, for the purpose of removing timber, have made a tramway or road upon or demesne being Waste Lands of the Crown, and not being a Highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use the same without permission of the person making the same first obtained: Provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for ninety consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereafter to use the same: Provided also that, as regards tramways, the Board reserves to itself the power of deciding on the merits of each case as it arises.

12. Licenses cannot be transferred without the consent of the Board first obtained, transfer fee being ten shillings.

Special Licenses.

13. No log or wrought timber is to be drawn out of the bush or disposed of without a special license for the purpose, the fee under such special license being five shillings each log or tree.

Saw Mills.

Exclusive right to cut timber on Waste Lands of the Crown shall be granted to saw millers on the following conditions:—

14. Every application for such exclusive rights shall be made in writing, and be accompanied with a sketch and description as near as may be of the land required.

15. When two or more applications are made on the same day for the same timber or part thereof, such timber or part thereof shall be put up to auction between the applicants at an upset price, to be fixed by an auctioneer, the amount realized being considered a bonus in addition to the license fee.

16. The area within which exclusive right to cut timber shall be granted for the erection of any saw mill shall (around the site of the bush permit) be estimated at ten acres for each horse-power of the engine, with a reserve for five years’ cutting inclusive of the first year; an annual shape and frontage lines shall be subject to the provisions of the 30th and 31st and 94th Clauses of ‘The Southland Waste Lands Act 1865.’

17. Within fourteen days the Waste Land Board shall determine whether such application shall forthwith be dealt with by the Treasurer of the Waste Lands. Board the amount of survey fees; the one-half to be credited to the first quarter’s rent.

18. Within ninety days from the date of payment, the Chief Surveyor shall cause the application to be surveyed and its boundary lines cut. The survey to be conducted every respect in accordance with Survey Regulations in force at the time, shall on its completion be submitted to the Waste Lands Board, and if approved, the applicant shall after such approval pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue whatever sum may be due upon which he shall receive a license conferring on him the exclusive right of cutting timber over the said application.