CHAPTER III. 



The Encouragement to Tree Culture in South Australia by 

 Sonus from the Government. 



In 1873, " An Act to Encourage the Planting of Trees" was passed by 

 the South Australian Parliament. This Bill was introduced and success- 

 fully nursed by Mr. Krichauff, M.P., and was the first movement towards 

 the formation of a department for the conservation and extension of 

 forests in the colony, which followed shortly after. To Mr. Krichauff, 

 therefore, the honor of this movement belongs. 



Subsequently this Act was incorporated with the Forest Board Act of 

 1876, and now forms part of " The Forest Tree Act, No. 96 of 1878." 



The clauses of this Act having special reference to the encouragement 

 of tree planting are as follows : — 



The GoTemor may from time to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, 

 declare any part of the province to he defined in such Proclamation to he a forest district, 

 and fix a day to he named in such Proclamation on which this part of this Act shall 

 come into operation in such district. 



Until any such Proclamation as aforesaid, the provisions of this part of this Act shaU 

 apply only to the districts heretofore declared, and which are set forth in the schedule 

 ijiarked e. 



Any person who shall, in accordance with any regulation in force under this Act, 

 sow, plant, transplant, or cause to grow upon any land not less than five acres in 

 extent and not heing waste lands of the Crown, forest trees of the description men- 

 tioned in any such regulation, shall he entitled to receive an order in the form of 

 schedule marked p, which order shall entitle such person to the amount of two poimds 

 for every acre so planted, such amoimt to he credited to him on the purchiiso of any 

 waste lands of the Crown in the province open for sale at auction or otherwise, or to he 

 received in payment of the interest of the purchase-money if selected on credit or in 

 payment of any rent due to the Government, but subject in every other respect to the 

 laws and regulations for the time heing in force regulating the sale and disposal of the 

 waste lands of the Crown : Provided that the Commissioner of Crown Lands may 

 refuse to grant any such order unless it shaU be shown to his satisfaction that the land 

 in respect of which such order is sought has been devoted to no other purpose, except 

 for the purpose of protecting, planting, and gardening, as may be approved by the 

 Commissioner, and except as provided in the 5th sub-paragraph of clause 3 of 

 schedule ii, than that of producing forest trees for at least two years, and that the trees 

 on such land are in a vigorous and healthy condition, and that the land is securely 

 fenced in against sheep and cattle. 



