WASTE LAND BOARD.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 99, 3 October 1871, Page 5

WASTE LAND BOARD.

—o — A mooting of this Hoard was held in Dunedin last Wednesday. There were present the Chief Commissioner, Mr .1. T. Thomson (in tlio chair), and Messrs Ciitton and Hughes. Mr John M‘Arc!oil applied to know whether the purchase-money would he accepted for ground that had hcon lield under Agricultural Lease which the holder had inadvertently omitted to make application to purchase before the lease had expired ? The answer was that the Board had no power under such circumstances to soil laud according to the terms of the lease. Mr Roderick Mathoson applied to purchase section 52, block IV., Shotovor, which had been held by him under Agricultural Lease, stating that ho had been unable to obtain blank forms of application for purchase before the expiry of the lease. It was resolved

i that before any further action be taken in the matter, it be ascertained whether the applicant had applied in any way for the purchase i of the land in the proper time. An application from Mr John Laxton, for a license to quarry stone on land adjoining t Butel’s water race, Surroy-atruet, Arrowtown, ■ j was referred to the Warden. | Mr Charles Colclough requested that the : ground included in his garden at Bendigo be ' | not surveyed into town sections. The Board | declined, at least in so far as this matter was ,| concerned, to interfere with the progress of I the survey. . I A report from Warden Burton on the pro- | posed survey of additional sections at Roxi burgh was read. It was resolved that the parties occupying the ground, and who applied to purchase, should make the survey at their own expense, the cost of survey to bo ; added to the upset price, and repaid to the i present occupiers in the event of them not ! being the purchasers. I Mr G. F. Reid applied to purchase an aero ! of land in St. Bathans, occupied by and around the Roman Catholic Church, for that congrc- | gation. The application was referred to the Warden, pending further action. The application of Messrs Gillies and Street, who applied on behalf of Messrs . Boyesßros., for two pre-emptive rights on run 315, under original claim, was granted. : —Daily Times.