REGULATIONS UNDER the FOREST TREES PLANTING ENCOURAGEMENT ACT, 1871.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 229, 20 June 1872, Page 9

REGULATIONS UNDER the FOREST TREES PLANTING ENCOURAGEMENT ACT, 1871.

A General Government " Gazette," issued on the 20th ult., contains the following rules and regulations to be followed before a person can claim land under the Act : — 1. The planting in respect of which a grant of land under the Act is claimed need not be in. one block, but may be in several blocks on the same property. 2. The land planted must be securely fenced. 3. It must have been devoted to planting only for at least two years, -A. The trees must be in vigorous and healthy state when the grant of land is applied for. 5. The number of trees planted must be at the rate of not less than five hundred per acre. 6. The trees must be of an average height of not less than three feet when the grant is applied for. 7. The trees may be of any description. 8. The fulfilment of the conditions above prescribed shall be ascertained and shall be certified in the form annexed by an officer appointed by the Superintendent. Upon the receipt of such certificate the Superintendent may either issue his own certificate to the "Waste Lands Board, or he may, if he thinks fit, cause further inquiry to be made into the facts of the case. Any expense attending the inspection or obtaining the certificate must be borne by the applicant for the same. The above conditions fulfilled, the Act grants two acres of waste laud for every one planted.