PLANTING FOREST TREES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 596, 19 September 1873, Page 2

PLANTING FOREST TREES.

—o— The following Regulations are extracted from the “Gazette,” and published for general information : L 'Plie planting in respect of which i grant of land under the Act is claimed need not be in one block, but may Lein several blocks on the same property. 2 |The land planted must be securely fenced. 3. It must have been devoted to planting for at least two years. (Section 2of “The Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act Amendment Act, 1572,” provides that if root crops are cultivated among the forest trees planted on any lands, such lauds shall not, by reason only of such crops being cultivated, be deemed to be not devoted only' to purposes of planting.) 4. Tue trees must be iu a healthy and vigorous state when the grant of laud is applied for. 5. The number of trees planted must ho at the rate of not less than live hundred per acre. G. The trees must he of an average height of two feet, except in the ease of gum, wattle, poplar, or willow, which must he of an average height of six feet. 7. As soon as the land is fenced and the trees plant d, a report must he sent to the Secretary for Lands, who wi 1 cause inspection of the same to be made ; from the date of which, if duly certified, the two yean will be calculated. 8. The amount. of the land order to he issued under authority of section 4 of the Amendment Act, 1872, in respect of every acre of land planted, shall be four pounds. 9. The fulfilment of the conditions above described shall be ascertained, and shall he certified in form annexed by an ofiicer appointed by the Superintendent. Upon t receipt of such certificate, the Superintendent may either issue his own certificate to the Waste Lauds Board, or he may, if ho thinks fit, cause further inquiry to he made into the facts of the case.