G. F. Bowen, Governor.

In pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the following places to be polling-places for the several Maori Electoral Districts constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” for the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

Southern Maori Electoral District.

Campbelltown—Court House.
Riverton—Court House.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. C. Richmond.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23th January, 1868.

At the request of the Southland Waste Lands Board, the following Regulations are published for general information.

E. W. Stafford.

Timber Regulations, Southland.—Passed by the Waste Lands Board on 10th December, 1867, in accordance with Clause XVI. of “The Southland Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867.”

Hand-sawyers, Wood-cutters, etc.

Applications for Timber Licences may be made at the Land Office, Invercargill, or at the Police Station nearest to the reserve on which the applicant intends to cut.

On application at the Land Office, the applicant shall pay the fee to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and on its payment the Chief Commissioner shall immediately issue a license to cut in the reserve indicated by applicant.

The ranger or constable in charge of the station, on payment of the fee, shall give an acknowledgment for the same on a printed form to be provided by the board, which shall authorise the applicant to commence cutting at once. The fee thus paid shall be forwarded by the ranger or constable to the Receiver of Land Revenue as soon as possible, and on its receipt the Chief Commissioner shall furnish the ranger with a license to be by him issued to the applicant.

The permission granted in such license shall be confined to the bush stated by the applicant and shall extend only to lands of the Crown, which have been already or may hereafter be appropriated for Timber Reserves in accordance with the provisions of “The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865,” and any licensed person cutting timber beyond the limit of his license will be considered as unlicensed and prosecuted accordingly.

A fee of ten shillings per month shall be charged for each person, whether cutting, sawing, or splitting.

A fee of five pounds shall be charged for a license for twelve months.

An annual fee of two pounds ten shillings shall be paid by settlers cutting timber by bond fide servants in their employment for the improvement of land in their own occupation or firewood for domestic use but not for sale.

Every holder of a license to cut timber must exhibit such license to the ranger or 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.

The Chief Commissioner shall 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 to the satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner, or officer seizing the same, it shall be restored to the claimant.

All timber when seized 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.