SCENIC RESERVES AND SETTLERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 5

SCENIC RESERVES AND SETTLERS.

am sending you: a notice. I received from the Inspector of * Reserves. I should like , to know how ! a'man; is to clear his land if he cannot' light fires. Aly section 1 joins a'' scenio reserve,' and it,' is..all. in heavy, bush.'Also, I. have five,:neighbours who., join .the . same reserve, and thoir sections are also in bush:-.-V.-The . Government .let these.'sections,: and then made this- law about' six! years afterwards.. If, we do .'not improve our .-sections they aretake'n from :us,. and if we. fell, tho bush and burn it wo are liable to; a/iBIOO .fine, as 'it is-impossible to burn without damaging 1, the . reserve. An'.official -said' to:, a neighbour' of mine the other day, when told that: the -'settlers were; not in favour of these' reserves.' "And , what .would'. the people live on if it was not for,the tourist? Now, I have' been here/.teii years, and all I have had out a'tourist is one'shilling, and my near:est neighb6ur'a.whole'2s. 6d.—l am; etc.,'

E. A. PEILLMAN. Resolution Bay, January 21.

;.[Our. correspondent..forwards a printed, circular; : .',from ..the ' Lands Department quoting.Section 9. of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1903, which provides a 0600117" of .£lO9 for every -person who fells bush or lights fires on reserves,, or lights a .fire which spreads into a reserve.] ~ ..". \'::