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demarkated forest, so far as they relate to the cutting or removal of wood, timber, or 

 other forest produce. Crown laud is now excluded from the operation of the Fencing 

 Law, 1887, but any demarkated forest should be declared to be liable to be brought under 

 the Law, by Proclamation. The adjoining landowners would be affected only as if the 

 demarkated forest had been alienated. 



On Crown land, Native Locations, Commonages, or Outspans, there should be free 

 access for the purpose of working any Crown forest situated within or beyond. On 

 Native Locations and Commonages the rights of grazing should be limited as to time, 

 and subject to the payment of an equitable fee. 



The Land Clauses Consolidation Law, 1872, should be incorporated with the Forest 

 Act, under Clause 5, to render the provisions relating to the taking of land for public 

 purposes applicable to areas where it is required to preserve forests, or to make forests or 

 plantations or works of a like character. Such resumption to be subject to compensation 

 in the manner provided by the Law. 



It should be lawful to declare by Proclamation, where it is in the public interest to 

 do so, that any part of any forest, whether Crown or private, is to be preserved (i) for 

 the maintenance and regulation of a water supply ; (2) for the fixation of sanddrifts, or 

 the protection of roads, bridges, railways, and other lines of communication ; and to make 

 regulations for the purpose of conserving such forest, with regard to (1) the clearing of 

 the land ; (2) the felling of wood ; (3) the firing of the vegetation ; (4) the use of the 

 pasturage. 



Provision should be made to bring, upon application by the owner, any forest or 

 plantation belonging to private persons, or municipal or other bodies, under the operation 

 of the Act, in so far as its provisions may apply. 



In order to facilitate demarkation in those cases where the boundaries of farms are 

 disputed, Law No. 39, 1888, " to remedy Defects in Surveys of Land," should be made 

 applicable to forest land, and the authorised Demarkating Officer should rank as a 

 licensed land surveyor for the purposes of this Act. The Demarkating Officer should 

 have power to enter upon lands for purposes of survey, and to take materials for erecting 

 and preparing signals or beacons. 



FOREST OFFENCES. In undemarkated forest, the cutting of trees or removal of 

 forest produce, and the firing of the forest, wilfully or through negligence, should be 

 punishable offences. In demarkated forest the penalties would be more severe, and the 

 offences would consist, as in the Cape Forest Act, of : (a) Damaging, cutting, or 

 removing any reserved tree. (6) Cutting, damaging, or removing any firewood, wattles, 

 saplings, or other forest produce, contrarily to such regulations as may be proclaimed 

 (c) Kindling, or aiding and abetting in kindling a fire in consequence of which forest 

 produce is burnt or in danger of being burnt, (d) Leaving, without taking precautions 



