Voices from Auckland, New Zealand.
Schedule
Schedule.
Occupation Of Crown Lands.
Issue Of Timber Licences.
11. | Persons occupying Waste Land of the Crown for the purpose of cutting timber, will be required to pay a fee of £5 yearly upon the issue of the licence. |
12. | The Commissioner shall determine the extent of land to which such licence shall give a right of occupancy, and the licences shall only have effect within the district specified in them. |
13. | No fresh applicant for a licence will be permitted injuriously to interfere with a portion of forest upon which any other person may have expended capital and labour. |
14. | In the event of any occupant of a portion of forest upon which he may have expended any considerable sum in the formation of roads, or improvements to facilitate the removal of timber, wishing to resign his licence, he shall, if in the consideration of the Commissioner he should be regarded as having established a claim to this indulgence, be permitted to transfer his licence and right of pre-occupancy to such person as he may select. |
15. | All applicants for timber licences must address their applications to the Waste Lands Commissioner, stating their names and residences in full. |
16. | When the application has been approved, it shall be forwarded to the Receiver of Land Revenue, by whom, upon payment of the required fee, the licence shall be issued. |
17. | No person will be allowed to cut or remove timber on or from the Crown Lands, which have been reserved by Government for the public use. |
18. | The form of Timber Licences will be according to Form C hereunto annexed. |
General.
19. | All annual licences to be drawn so as to expire simultaneously on the last day of each year. |
20. | Licences applied for after the 1st of June in each year, will only be chargeable with half the usual fee. |
21. | No licence shall preclude the Government from including within a Hundred, or selling, or shall in any way affect the rights of the Crown to land occupied in virtue of such licence. |
22. | All disputes between holders of licences having reference to depasturing stock or cutting timber, shall be heard and decided by the Commissioner, who is hereby authorised to charge at his discretion to the party against whom his decision shall be made, a fee of £5. |
23. | Licences for depasturing purposes may be transferred from one person to another, by the Commissioner, with the approval of the Superintendent. |
A.
Form Of Licence.
Whereas of has made application for a licence to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the district of [boundaries], and has this day paid into my hands the sum of £ s. d., I, do hereby licence the said to [depasture stock] upon the said land for the term of fourteen years from the date hereof; subject, nevertheless, to be sooner determined, pursuant to the provisions of the "Waste Land Regulations 1859," under which this licence is issued, and to be cancelled as by law is provided.
Dated this day of Signed
B.
- Description of a Run on the Waste Lands of the Crown
- Claimed by
- Situation
- Boundaries
- Estimated extent
- Number and description of stock left upon the run
(Signature)
C.
Timber Licence to at permission to cut, saw, split, and remove timber on and from the Waste Crown Lands at within such limits as may at any time be assigned by the Commissioner subject to the provisions of the "Waste Land Regulations, 1859."
Receiver of Land Revenue.
N.B.—If the holder of the above licence shall contravene or violate any order or regulation made with respect to any of the purposes for which this licence is granted, the Government reserves to itself the power of declaring the licence of any such person so offending to be cancelled, and such licence shall thereupon become null and void, and shall not be pleaded in justification of any offence committed against the provisions of any ordinance relating thereto.