NEW ZEALAND TIMBER LICENSES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 7 August 1852, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TIMBER LICENSES.

[From the New Zealand Journal, March 20.] The Queen has been pleased to fssue the following additional instructions, under the rGyal sign manual and signet, to the Governor-in-chief of New Zealand, for the purpose of authorising persons temporarily occupying Crown lands in that colony to cut timber thereon, and lp remove the same under license :—: — " Whereas, by our instructions, under our signet and sign manual accompanying our letters patent, under the Great Seal of our United Kingdom, bearing date the 23rd day of December, 1846, we did, among other things, make certain rules and regulations respecting the settlement of the waste lands of the Crown, which are comprised in the 13th chapter of Ihe said instructions :—: — " And whereas it is provided by our said instructions that nothing therein contained should interfere with the piomulgation by us, as we might thereafter be advised, of any other and further instructions respecting the occupation of lands forming part of the demesne of us in right of our Crown in New Zealand, by way of lease or license for any term of years, or for any shorter time, but that such occupation, leases, and licenses should be regulated by such further instructions as we should thereafter issue, in pursuance.of the Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the 9th and lOih years of our reign, entitled 'An Act to make further provision for the government'of the New Zealaud Islands." ' And it was further provided by our said instructions that nothing therein contained should extend or be considered as extending to the temporary occupation of any lands ' forming part of the. demesne of us, in right of our Crown, in New Zealand, by any person or persons so occupying the same for the purpose of depasturing sheep or any other description of cattle thereon, under any leases or licenses to be to any such person for that purpose granted, but that whatever relates to any such occupation of any such lands for any such purposes as aforesaid should be regulated by such further instructions as we should for that purpose issue, and in the meantime by such orders as should in that behalf be made by the Go-vernor-in-chief of New Zealand ;—; — "Now, therefore, by these our additional instructions, under our sign manual and signet, we are pleased to declare and ordain that nothing in our said recited instructions shall extend, or be considered as extending, to the temporary cupation of any lands forming part of the demesne of us, in right- of our Crown, in New Zealand, by any person or persons so occupying the same for the purpose of cutting timber thereon, under any license to- be to any such person for that purpose* granted, but that whatever relates to any such occupation of any such lands for any such purposes as aforesaid shall be regulated by such further instructions as we shall for that purpose issue, and in the meantime by such orders as shall in that behalf be made by the Go-vernor-in-chief of New Zealand, provided nevertheless that no person or persons so licensed as aforesaid shall be allowed to cut or remove timber on or from such of the lands, forming part of the demesne of us, in right of our Crown, in New Zealand, as may have been, or shall be, reserved for the public use."