KAURI GUM INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 25 September 1915, Page 10

KAURI GUM INDUSTRY.

(P.y Telpgraph. Parliamentary Reporlcr.l •U'ELLIXGTOX, Friday. A Kii,tirl Oura Industry Amendment ]sill wnii introduced by Governor'n jiii-h- - Power is conferred on the Minuter to purchase and sell kauri jtuni on euch terms und conditions us lie tliink.i fit. Power i« also given to the Commissioner, in any dicing lioieiiM'' hereafter ieeued, to iinert a condition that the Minister ehull have the prior ri,;lit 'of piircha«inf; all tlie gum, obtained by the holder of the license, which may lie cancelled upon any breach of the condition. The hill empowers the Crown to net apart areas of land within a kauri yum dUtrict for the purpose of proraotinx tfie systematic recovery of sum. , and ('ther valuable products, and in liko manner, areas may be excluded from t time to time. The total nre:i thus />et apart ehall not exceed at any one time' ten thousand acre*. Land" *et apart :. : . may be dieposed of by the flUtric-t Lund . : .Board on lease up to 'ttventy-onn year* ;.:..-, providing that no person elmil be "ranted :■::••"■"■'.K oVt ' r ft greater area than lhre<kj. ; »|oniie n <l acrea. A penal elau.-e renders '•■••'■■ l\ Tt y pcrßon lial>l ° °" "ummary con % 2^°?i 0 a ane not exei-eilinu C"U to any gum or otl " r -:::■ *{M«c , it^e:^ rts . on «r '» the land, £?.:.. ipowmSU-,^ ae^o n gum licen.v- who ■•-'■' - f-H ptSitv n n <T, , lcc incuru lh " "- d- ----\ »"»Ucen»|; •y 4 1 ihQ cancellation uf