within fourteen days therefrom, be sold in such manner, and subject to such conditions as the Waste Land Board may direct.

All timber cut under a yearly license must be removed within three months after the expiration of the license; and under a monthly license within one month, otherwise it may be declared forfeited, seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown.

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

If any person duly licensed shall have established a sawpit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut timber within one hundred yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying such sawpit: Provided that if the person establishing such 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.

If any license holder shall, for the purpose of removing timber, have made a tramway or road upon land being Waste Land 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.

SAWMILLS.

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

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.

No application for bush land exceeding three hundred acres shall be granted for the erection of any sawmill, and as regards shape and frontage lines shall be subject to the provisions of the 30th, 31st and 32nd clauses of “The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865.”

Within fourteen days the Waste Land Board shall determine whether such application be granted or refused, and if granted, the applicant shall forthwith deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue the sum of fifty pounds.

Within thirty days from the payment of the deposit the Chief Surveyor shall cause the application to be surveyed, and its boundary lines cut. The survey on its completion shall be submitted to the Waste Land Board, and, if approved, the Chief Commissioner shall demand of applicant the first instalment of rent, and on its payment, shall issue to him a license conferring on him the exclusive right of cutting timber over the said land, but the money paid as deposit shall be forfeited in case the first instalment of rent is not paid on demand.

The expense of such survey shall be deducted from the deposit paid by the applicant, and the balance shall be allowed, in account of the first instalment of the rent, the surplus, if any, after satisfaction of the rent, to be returned to the applicant.

The rent chargeable on every such license shall be four pounds per acre per annum, and shall be paid in equal instalments half yearly in advance.

A fee shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue on the transfer of such license at the rate of one shilling for every acre contained: Provided that in no case shall the fee so charged be less than one pound.

Every such license shall be drawn so as to terminate on the 31st day of December, in each year. Provided that if the rent having been duly paid, the licensee produces a certificate under the hand of the ranger or other person appointed by the Board to inspect the land, to the effect that none of the provisions of “The Southland Waste Lands Act,” or the bye-laws of the Waste Lands Board have been violated, and it is consistent with the public interests, the Board may renew the license for another year, on the original terms and conditions, and so on from year to year.