OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin : Wednesday, April 15, 1874. No. 903.

FOREST TREES.

THE Provincial Government being desirous of promoting the plantation of forests in those parts of the Province where timber is scarce, and there being in the Botanical Gardens, at Dunedin, ready for transplanting, some 64,000 healthy forest tree plants of various kinds, it is proposed to dispose of the same at the rate of from 15s. to 30s. per hundred, to such persons as can give satisfactory assurance that they have land properly fenced and ready for their receipt.

Application to be made in writing to the undersigned. Such applications to be dealt with in the order of date of their reception.

JOHN LOGAN,
Provincial Storekeeper.
Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin,
April 14th, 1874.

The following is a list of the plants ready for distribution:—

• Pinus, Insignis ... 15,000
• Ponderosa ... 5,589
• Tuberculata ... 10,484
• Larixia ... 14,110
• Muricata ... 9,231
• Maritima ... 5,979
• Cupressus, Lawsoniana ... 200
• Macrocarpa ... 2,383
• Biota Orientalis ... 400
• English Oaks ... 600
• Pricus Pinaster ... 74

Total ... 64,000

BYE-LAWS adopted by the Wardens of the New River Hundred.

1. That no cattle of any description be depastured on the New River Hundred without a license, provided always that cattle and horses of bona fide travellers on their journey when turned out be not considered trespassers, if not longer than two nights in the same neighbourhood.

2. That in no case shall any person depasture on the Hundred more than one head of great cattle for every ten acres of land in his occupation, and that all cattle so depastured must be branded with the registered brand of the license holder.

3. That no person having his complement of great cattle on the Hundred shall depasture sheep thereon; and that in no case shall any person depasture on the Hundred a greater number of sheep than one head for every hundred acres of land in his occupation; and that sheep travelling through the District will be liable to be treated as trespassers if camped for the night within five miles of the previous day’s camping ground.

4. That no entire horse over twelve months old be depastured on the New River Hundred; and that no bull or bull-stag shall run thereon after fourteen days’ notice to that effect has been given in writing to the owner thereof by the Wardens.

5. That every license-holder shall within fourteen days after these Bye-laws have been published in a local paper, make a return to the Warden living nearest to him, showing the numbers and brands of all stock depastured by him on the New River Hundred.

6. That the penalty for any breach of the foregoing Bye-laws be any sum not exceeding Five Pounds sterling, to be recovered in a summary way according to the XLV clause of the “Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865.”

7. That nothing contained in the above Bye-laws shall be held or construed to authorise the impounding of sheep or cattle, or the enforcing penalties against the owners of any sheep or cattle which are being depastured on any land, whether fenced or not, which is the property of or is lawfully occupied by the owner of such sheep or cattle.

The above Bye-laws were adopted by the Wardens of the New River Hundred, at their meeting on the 3rd day of April, 1874.

WILLIAM RUSSELL,
Hon. Secretary.

Sanctioned on behalf of Waste Land Board,
W. H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9th April, 1874.
Lt 25s.

BYE-LAWS passed by the Wardens of the Hundred of Forest Hill, April 3rd, 1874:—

1. That no cattle of any description be depastured on the Crown Lands of the Forest Hill Hundred without a license, provided always that the stock of bona fide travellers on their journey, when turned out, be not considered trespassers if not longer than two nights in the same neighbourhood.

2. That all persons, not being licensed to depasture stock on the Forest Hill Hundred, remove their cattle, horses, or sheep within fourteen days of the publication of this notice.

3. That no entire horse over twelve months old be depastured on the Crown Lands of the Hundred, and that no bull or bull-stag shall be allowed to run thereon.