OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin: Wednesday, October 28, 1874. No. 932

REGULATIONS for the Management of Forest Plantations made in terms of Clause 169 “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872.”

1. Any person may apply to any Land Officer acting in any district, for a license to occupy an allotment of land in terms of the 169th section of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872.”

2. The person whose application shall have been granted by the Waste Land Board, shall, in the event of the land not being already surveyed, have the land surveyed by a surveyor, approved of by the Chief Surveyor, within six months of the date of the grant.

3. The License shall commence on the date of the approval of the survey by the Waste Land Board, and shall be for a term of eight years.

4. The Licensee shall during the first year of the said term, fence with a sufficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Laws in force at the time in the Province of Otago, not less than one fourth part of the land licensed, so as to have the whole fenced within four years, and shall properly maintain the said fence during the currency of the License.

5. The Licensee shall during the first four years of the said term, each year, not later than August, plant one fourth part of the land so fenced, with British, American, Australian, or New Zealand trees of approved kinds, so that the whole area licensed shall be planted within four years; the plants to be placed not more than eight feet apart, and managed after the most approved principles of Forestry.

6. Four years after planting not less than one half the allotment, the Licensee shall be entitled to a Crown Grant for such part so planted of the allotment, on which trees have grown to the number of 500 to the acre, and in the case of gum, wattle, poplar, or willow, to a height not less than five feet, all other kinds to a height of not less than three feet. Any surveys then necessary, to be made at the cost of the Licensee.

7. The Licensee shall within six months of the date of his License, and every half-year thereafter during the currency of the same, report to the Waste Lands Board, the progress made in planting the allotment, and it shall be competent for the Board to direct a Ranger, or other officer of the Board, to inspect the plantation and to report thereon.

8. Should it appear, from the report of the Ranger, or other officer, that no progress has been made, or that there has been insufficient work done, either in planting, rearing, thinning, draining, fencing, or other means for producing a forest, or should there be a breach or nonfulfilment of any of these regulations, then it shall be competent for the Waste Land Board after one month’s notice of their intention so to do, cancel the license, and upon publication in the Provincial Gazette of such cancellation, the interest created by such license shall cease, without any right on the part of the Licensee to compensation on any account whatever.

9. Such notice shall be sufficient if sent by post to the address of the Licensee, or published three times in the Provincial Gazette.

10. Such License shall not prevent any person or persons authorised so to do from depasturing cattle on any of the unfenced portion of the land licensed.

11. The fulfilment of the conditions above prescribed shall be ascertained and shall be certified in the form annexed by an officer appointed by the Board. And until such certificate shall have been lodged and signed, it shall be held and considered by the licensee and Waste Land Board that the conditions have not been complied with and that the Licensee is not entitled to ask or receive a Crown Grant for the land held by him under license.

FORM OF CERTIFICATE.

I do hereby certify that after personal inspection of the plantations made by __, that __ acres of land have been planted by him in accordance with the Regulations issued under the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” that the conditions have been faithfully complied with, and that he is entitled under the provisions of the said Act to receive a Crown Grant.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

Application for a License to occupy Waste Lands of the Crown.

To the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

In accordance with the “Otago Waste Land Act 1872,” I hereby give you notice that I am desirous