SOUTHLAND TIMBER REGULATIONS

19. The fee chargeable under every such license shall be at the rate of threepence (3d) for every hundred superficial feet cut during the term of the license, and shall be paid monthly. Provided that if any rent due remain unpaid for more than six days, the license by this Act shall be deemed cancelled, and the bush open for application, without any notice being given to the original licensee.

20. A fee of five pounds shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue on the transfer of such license.

21. Every such license shall be drawn so as to terminate on the 31st day of December in each year, and may be renewed, on the original terms and conditions from year to year. Provided that before the issue of any renewed license the lessee shall produce a certificate from the Ranger, or other person duly appointed by the Waste Lands Board on that behalf:

(1.) That the timber has been cut fairly, and that all available for sawing purposes had been used.

(2.) That no trees or saplings not required for the purposes of the mill have been injured or destroyed by the act or by the neglect of the lessee or his servants, and that none of the provisions of "The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865," and the "Amendment Act, 1867," or the bye-laws of the Waste Lands Board have been violated.

(3.) And if it shall appear that these regulations have not been complied with, or that any wrongful acts have been done by the lessee, then the Waste Lands Board shall appoint a valuer to ascertain and assess the amount of damage which the forest, whether under license or not, may have sustained by such wrongful acts; and no new license shall be granted until the amount of damage so assessed shall have been paid, in addition to the sum due by way of rent and expenses of valuation.

22. The licensee shall keep a production book, showing the number of superficial feet passing through the saw mill each day and exhibit the same on demand of any person authorised by the Waste Lands Board, and shall furnish a correct copy of it to the Board, monthly, the first or second Board day in the succeeding month, in the form prescribed in the schedule, the penalty for omitting to make, or making a false return, being forfeiture of the license and a penalty of five pounds.

23. Holders of a license to give all information whatsoever as to boundaries, position of cutting, &c., that may be requisitioned by the Ranger, or any person authorised by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

General Regulations

24. No person to cut down or otherwise injure any trees not required by him for the purpose of his business; and if it shall appear to the Ranger that any of the regulations have been infringed, he shall immediately give notice of the same at the office of the Waste Lands Board, and shall temporarily suspend the license of the party offending; and if the Commissioners shall judge that such infringement has been wilful, then the license shall be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of the Board to refuse to allow the issue of another license to the same person or persons.

25. Any person who shall cut timber without a license, or who shall continue to saw or cut timber after any quarterly payment shall have become due and shall not be paid, or after the Ranger, by reason of any alleged breach of these regulations, shall have given him notice to discontinue cutting, shall be treated as an unlicensed trespasser.

26. Where the terms “land,” “bush,” or “bush land” are used in the foregoing regulations, the bush or timber only is meant.

27. A penalty not exceeding five pounds will be inflicted for every single breach of the above bye-laws, and summary proceedings will be adopted to recover the same, besides an action at common law to recover the value of forest destroyed by such infringement or otherwise.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Schedule

Production Book

of Saw Mill situated at ____, giving the daily return of timber sawn or hewn under License during the month of ____, 187, in terms of section 22 of the Southland Timber Regulations.

I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the above is a correct copy of the Production Book for the month of ____, 187, and is a true and complete Return of all the timber sawn or hewn under my license during the month, and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled "The Justices of the Peace Act 1866."

Made and subscribed at ___ in the Colony of New Zealand, this __ day of __, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy __.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esq., Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand, Esquire, and Sir Francis Smith, Pastoral Lessees of Run No. 218, in the Province of Otago.

NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that, in terms of section one hundred and three (103rd) of the "Otago Waste Lands Act 1872," the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holders of the pastoral lease of Run No. 218 (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields), to exercise your right to apply for an agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103B of the said Act, of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (840) acres in extent, of the land comprised in the said pastoral lease, not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice, that if you fail or neglect to make application for an agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.