336 TlMEHRl. 



A curious anomaly exists in the regulation about hard* 

 wood ; the regulation says that •* no other hardwood shall 

 be cut than that will square less than 6 in." Very well ; 

 in the Crown Surveyor's statistics of produce from Crown 

 Lands I find 5,000 beams and 64,000 spars stated as having 

 come off Crown Lands. Now beams and spars are round 

 pieces of hardwood with the bark on them, 20 to 22 ft. long 

 by 3 in. (spar) and 5 in. (beam) in mean diameter, both 

 being the produ6l of the stems of young hardwood trees 

 that would not square 6 in. or anything like it. It might 

 also be well for you to find out if all the cordwood 

 mentioned in the table was the produ6l of hardwood 

 trees as defined by the ordinance as lawful to cut. I 

 dire6t your attention to this as I think it extraordinary 

 that any person should in the first place take out a grant 

 of Crown Lands for cordwood-cutting and secondly if he 

 did, would be so honest as only to cut the soft wood trees 

 he might find on it ; I mean of course under the specified 

 restriftions. All the provisions of the '90 Ordinance con- 

 trolling the removal, conveyance and sale of timber, are 

 remarkable good and quite easily worked. 



The right to make paths through unoccupied Crown 

 Land should be included in the right to cut timber &c. 

 on the grant ; nobody takes out a grant to cut timber, 

 and lets it remain on the grant, why then this absurdity 

 about privilege in making a path to remove your pro- 

 duce. The privileged occupation of 5 acres is nearly 

 always a necessity and must not be confounded with 

 my previous remarks about wood-cutters' licenced grants 

 of occupancy. 



The royalty payable in the wood-cutting industry, as 

 fixed in the Schedule of the 1890 Ordinance, is not calcu- 



