NEW PASTURAGE REGULATIONS

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 56, 31 January 1852, Page 7

NEW PASTURAGE REGULATIONS

The following is a precis of the Pasturage Regulations (so far as they relate to lands not allotted to any settlement) accompanying the despatch from Earl Grey published in our last, and which are those issued by the New Zealand Company in 1849 : t 1. Pasturage licenses over lands included \ within the limits of any settlement, to be granted \ for periods not exceeding one year, to end on j the 31st Dec Tin eacE'yealC"'""™ ' 2. Licenses for particular pasturage runs to be granted to the first applicants, unless the licensees of such runs for the time being, are among such applicants, when they are to have the preference. In all other cases simultaneous applications to be decided by lot. 3. Applications to be made in writing, and to state name and residence of applicant; situation, boundaries, and estimated extent of run applied for; estimated quantity of live stock the run is capable of containing ; and number and description of stock proposed to be depastured under the License, 4. Apportionment of pasturage runs, as to the extent, boundaries, and number of live stock capable of being sustained thereon, to be decided, if disputed, by arbitration. Boundaries of any run to be marked in an easily discernable manner by the Licensee. 5. Yearly charges (besides the Fee on issue of license) to be For Sheep, each . . . Id. For horned Cattle or Horses . Bd. The amount of such Fees to be paid halfyearly in advance. A proportionate part to be returned if License determined before the expiration of the half-year. 6. On the issue of the license, a fee of a sum not exceeeding Five Pounds to be paid, except when the license is issued subsequently to 3ist of May, when only half such fee to be paid. 7. Reservation of Right to the Crown to take the land or any portion of it at any time for other purposes than pasturage, by notice of six months to that effect. No license to confer right of soil, or power of breaking up the same, or sub-letting the pasturage, without consent of the proper officer. 8. No allowance to be made for improvements. 9. Disputes among applicants or licensees to be determined by arbitration or lot, if desired by the parties themselves, in default of which, the authorised officer to decide. In case he shall decline to give a decision, the parties to be at liberty to have recourse to such remedy as they may possess, either at law or in equity. 10. Non-observance of regulations by licensee to give power to the authorised officer to determine the license. 11. Refusal or neglect to give up possession of any run on determination of the license by lapse of time or otherwise, to subject the licensee to a penalty equal to three times the amount of charge reserved in the said license,without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the Crown.

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From Pigeon Bay the track again enters the bush —this time, however, on level ground. This fine tract of woodland at the head of Pigeon Bay is about three miles across, and the path is occasionally skirted by large numbers of the „ tree fern, a very handsome and interesting variI ation from the pines and totaras. On this level you cross the same winding stream thirteen ' times ! On again rising the hill, through fern and manuka shrubs, a splendid view is gained ; —an undulating country, bounded by wooded mountains, and Pigeon Bay, lake-like, at one extremity. After more bush, until well over the hill, the second from starting, you catch sight of the harbour of Akaroa lying below, its head divided into two,bays by,a long narrow neck of land stretching out in the middle. Over this neck,; at. its juncture with the mainland, the path leads. Akaroa town is still invisible, and the track, which until now was single, begins to . branch and diverge. Trouble and vexation is Iris lot who keeps not to the left hand track, which though it leads through a bit of swampy land, is yet the true one. After yet more wood, the traveller stands upon the beach, and must now head the bay for the ferry house. The first wane he comes to will be perhaps mistaken for - this, especially as its owner, a Frenchman with a Scotch wife, possesses a boat. The veritable ferry-house and inn is still further round the beach ; there the weary pedestrian may recruit, and unless too heroic to shorten his labours, or "anxious to see German Bay, may save a toilsome trapse of eight miles over the spurs of the hills, by securing a half-crown passage by water to Bruce's Hotel, Akaroa.