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planting trees entitled to order for 2/. for every acre planted.
of 1873 altered.
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SCHEDULE.
South
[Royal Arms.]
Australia.
Land Order.
It having been duly certified that
in accordance with Act No.
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acre have been planted with forest trees of 1873, it is hereby directed that this land order shall be available as cash at any Government sale of lands at auction or otherwise, or in payment of the interest of purchase money for Crown land selected on credit, or of any rent due by the holder hereof for the time being, upon condition that this land order be exercised within five years from the date hereof.
Given under my haud, at Adelaide, this
day of
By His Excellency's command,
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Commissioner of Crown Lands.
EXTRACT of SOUTH AUSTRALIA Act, No. 96 of 1878.
22. Any person who shall, in accordance with any regulation in force under this Act, sow, plant, transplant, or cause to grow upon any land not less than five acres in extent and not being waste lands of the Crown, forest trees of the description mentioned in any such regulation, shall be entitled to receive an order in the form of Schedule hereto marked F', which order shall entitle such person to the amount of two pounds for every acre so planted, such amount to be credited to him on the purchase of any waste lands Clause 4 of 26 of the Crown in the Province open for sale at auction or otherwise, or to be received in
payment of the interest of the purchase money if selected on credit or in payment of any rent due to the Government, but subject in every other respect to the laws and regulations for the time being in force regulating the sale and disposal of the waste lands of the Crown: Provided that the Commissioner of Crown Lands may refuse to grant any such order unless it shall be shown to his satisfaction that the land in respect of which such order is sought has been devoted to no other purpose, except for the purpose of protecting, planting, and gardening, as may be approved by the Commissioner, and except as provided in the 5th sub-paragraph of clause 3 of Schedule H, than that of producing forest trees for at least two years, and that the trees on such lands are in a vigorous and healthy condition, and that the land is securely fenced in against sheep and cattle.
Conditions required.
Oncer to give certificate of compliance.
Adapted from clause 5 of 26
of 1873.
Clause 6 of 26
of 1878.
Order to bu
exercised within five years.
-Order may be
offered for Spayments at
afferent times.
Clanse 7 of 26 of 1873.
23. Upon the certificate of any officer appointed under this part of this Act that the ternus and conditions imposed by this Act have been complied with, the person to whom such certificate is given shall be entitled, on the production of such certificate to the Com- missioner of Crown Lands, to receive an order for an amount to which such certificate shall prove him to be entitled.
24. Every such order shall be transferable, and shall be exercised within five years from the date thereof, and if not exercised within such period shall be absolutely null and void.
25. It shall be lawful for the holder of any order, if the sum of money named therein exceed fifty pounds, but not otherwise, to exercise such right wholly at one time, or from time to time (before the expiration of the period aforesaid), and to purchase, under such order, land in one parcel, or in more parcels than one; and whenever such order, whatever the amount thereof may be, shall be exercised by the purchase or selection of any such land as aforesaid, the holder of such order shall at any time, when under the law in force regulating the sale of such lands he would be bound to pay any deposit, interest, rent, or purchase money, if such purchase had been made under such law alone, and not under this Act, produce such order to the person to whom such deposit, interest, rent, or purchase money may be payable; and such person shall thereupon note, by endorsement on such order, the sum of money which would be payable by such holder as such deposit, interest, rent, or purchase money as aforesaid, and shall also give to the holder of the order a receipt or certificate in the like form and to the like effect as such holder would be entitled to receive if he had paid in cash the sum so endorsed; and such receipt or certificate shall have the same force and effect as if the holder of such certificate had paid such sum so endorsed as aforesaid: Provided, however, that when ae order only the order has been fully exercised it shall be given up to the Treasurer,
to issue for
me land.
Clause 8 of 26
of 1873,
Planting of
arest trees by
26. No land once planted shall entitle the owner to more than one order in respect of such land.
27. Any person holding a lease from the Crown for pastoral purposes may give written
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to be held an
notice to the Commissioner of Crown Lands that he wishes to sow, plant, or transplant pastoral lessees forest trees on any tract of land not being less than twenty acres, on the land held by improvement.
him on lease, and in such notice shall define the number of trees on each acre, and the Clause 9 of 26 description of trees which he intends to sow, plant, or transplant, and state the amount of 1873 altered. of compensation which he expects in case of resumption; and if no objection is raised by the Commissioner within six months after the giving of such notice, all trees sown, planted, or transplanted in pursuance of any such notice which shall at the time of resumption be in a vigorous and healthy state, at least ten feet high, and securely fenced against sheep and cattle, shall be an improvement for which compensation shall be given if such land is resumed: Provided that in no case more than two pounds shall be paid for every acre sown, planted, transplanted, and resumed.
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No.
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SCHEDULE F.
[Royal Arms.]
Order.
Australia.
It having been duly certified that accordance with Act No.
£ :
acre have been planted with forest trees in
of 1878, it is hereby directed that this order shall be available as cash at any Government sale of lands at auction or otherwise, or in payment of the interest of purchase money for Crown land selected on credit, or of any rent due by the holder hereof for the time being, upon condition that this order be exercised within five years from the date hereof.
Given under my hand, at Adelaide, this
By His Excellency's command,
day of
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Commissioner of Crown Lands.
EXTRACT of MAURITIUS ORDINANCE, No. 12 of 1872.
24. It shall be lawful for every proprietor of real property, after receiving notice that Owners of real the Crown intends to purchase such real property for public purposes within the provi- prevent the sion of this Ordinance, to prevent the intended purchase by undertaking to do or not to purchase by do, as the case may be, that which the Crown by such purchase intended to do or to such property. prevent being done under the provisions of this Ordinance.
property may
the Crown of
Under what conditions.
Extracts of Papers relating to the Forests of New Zealand, and presented to both Houses of the General Assembly, 1874.
"It is thought that if a specific part of the forest be leased to a particular person, there will be a material guarantee that the young trees will not be cut down before maturity, and that due care is bestowed in facilitating and encouraging the growth of young seedlings; and if the first be violated, or the second neglected, he can be at once made responsible. This is the system that is insisted on in every country where State forests are maintained. The Government are anxious to obtain two results, if possible :- 1. The careful management of the forests and the protection of the growth of the young timber. 2. The planting out every year of an adequate number of young trees to keep the forests stocked. Nature has endowed us with a number of valuable forests. Ordinary care would enable us to cull from them the annual growth of the trees for public use. Would it not be a national crime to neglect attending to them ?"
The object which ought to be kept in view should be to manage the State Forests so that they would be useful and ornamental-profitable to Government and beneficial to the population. To accomplish this, and I speak from experience, it would be most difficult, if not impossible, to frame regulations which would work satisfactorily in all the forests. The situation, the value, and quality of the timber of which they consist are so variable that rules which would work well in one forest would not be applicable to For instance, regulations which would be suitable to a superior pine forest near a harbour, large town, or railway station could not be applied to another far inland and distant from a population, where carriage would be very expensive, and consequently
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reduce the value of the forest. Therefore, hefore they can be properly regulated, the public must be excluded from the timbered lands of the Crown, and a inethol adopted whereby the person who fells timber will have an interest in using it economically, and the public be supplied through a less extravagant system.
In recommending the adoption of a method of management for the conservation of the native forests of the Province on the principles which I have already mentioned, I would respectfully suggest:-1st. That the public be excluded from the Crown Porests. 2nd. That the demand for timber be supplied by selling at auction annually, or at any other time that might be deemed expedient or necessary, such quantities of growing timber as the state of the market might require for local or outside consumption.
I need not detail the conditions for regulating the sale of timber. Besides, these would depend in a great measure on local circumstances, such as the value of the timber, the situation of the forest, whether in its natural state or otherwise, &c. It would, however, be necessary in every instance to inpose the two following conditions:-
That the trees be cut at the surface of the ground. 2nd. That the whole of the timber sold must be removed from the forest within a certain time from date of sale, otherwise such timber to revert to the Government. The former condition should be imposed for carrying on an economical system of management, and the latter for guarding against monopoly.
Ist.
I cannot see that anything more liberal could be devised than the inducements beld out by the General and Provincial Governments, for planting on private lands. A condition might be imposed on persons obtaining leases of education reserves, or agri- cultural leases, to plant a certain arca annually. State plantations could be raised on public lands, either under the Forest Department. I have already mentioned, or by taking advantage of the pastoral resources of the country. This could be done by giving a lease for twenty-one years of small runs, say, from 5,000 to 10,000 acres of pastoral land, more or less, as the nature and features of the country would recommend. Absolve the assessment on the land set apart for that purpose, and make it a condition to plant a certain area annually. The area to be planted yearly would have to be determined by the annual value of the land leased, the kinds of trees, the distance apart, and the nature of the soil intended to be planted. The whole estate to be handed back to Government at the expiration of the lease. It would be necessary, for the purpose of carrying on planting operations successfully, and for raising plants at the cheapest possible rate, to set apart planting districts, and establish a nursery as near the centre of each as possible; say one at Oamaru, one at Dunedin, one at Clutha, one at Naseby, or any other place where it might be deemed advisable to carry on planting operations. If the inducements which I have already mentioned for planting on public land were held out, and nurseries established, I have no doubt but the land would be rapidly taken up for the purpose. Establishing nurseries in different parts of the Province would facilitate planting operations both on private and public lands. The public would be able to obtain plants within the district at a more reasonable rate than from private nurserymen at a distance.
Inducement might be offered, with success, in a money grant of from 31. to 51. per acre, for an area of not less than five acres planted with young trees; or a grant of from three to five acres of land for every acre planted with trees in blocks of not less than five or ten acres. A supply of good seed should be kept on hand to encourage planting, or a stock of young trees supplied by tender.
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