WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3118, 25 June 1881, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Friday, June 24,

The Board met at 11 a.m

Present —The ohief Commissioner (in the chair), Messrs J. Buchanan, R. HardiDg, T. Tanner, and 11. S. Tiffen. CORRESPONDENCE. The folowing correspondence was read : — From, the Under-Secretary for Crown Lands clrawitig attention to' the Gazette notification permanently reserving land at Clyde as a site for an hospital, and at Korsewood as an education endowment. From the same, stating that certain lands had been temporarily reserved for the growth and preservation of timber. From the same notifying that two acres of land at Tarawera bad been reserved for a school site.

From the resident engineer, reporting upon , the,probability of the railway line passing through Elections No's. 121, 122, 127, and 128, Woodville.—lt was decided not to offer those sections for sale.

From the Chairman of the Wairoa County Council, enquiring whether any definite reply could now be given to a recommendotion from the Council on the subject of a timber reserve of 1000 acres In the Rotukakaranga block.—The Chairmad read a reply he had forwarded to the effect that the Board bad decided to consider the matter on receipt of the Chief Surveyor's report on the land: ProiH the secretary of the O'rmondville Small Farm Association, giving notice that section No. 112 bad been transferred from Mr Webb to Mr F. H. Drower, and section No. 123 from Mr Wilding to Mr Thomas Fothergill.—The Board decided not to object to the transfers, but at the same time desired that the secretary's attention be called to rule No. 19 of the regulations governing the association, the Board being of opinion that as the transfer to Mr Wilding was only made in April last it would appear that he had taken up the land for speculative purposes; the Board also thought that Mr Drower could Scarcely be considered to have taken up section No. 112 with a view to honafide settlement. From Mr William Youngman, asking assistance for making the road leading to bis selection in the Ngamoko block. —The Board directed that Mr Youngman be informed that the Board could not assist him in opening up the road to the land taken up by him, and that one-third of the payments made on account of the land would be handed over to the County Council or Road Board for the construction of roads; also that the sections at the back of his had access from other roads.

From Mr Sydney Johnston, applying, on behalf of Messrs Hyland and Dickey, occupying sections Nos. 9 and 10, block 9, Tahoraite survey district, to be allowed to purchase about 14 acres intended as a road reserve between their sections and the road, in _order that the sites chosen for their homesteads might be more open by clearing the bush from the land they desired to purchase.—The Chairman stated that he had consulted the Chief Surveyor on the subject, and was informed that the< proper line of road would be along the boundaries of sections Nos, 9 and 10, but it was diverted partly to avoid bridging a tortuous creek and partly to obtain gravel from the hill over which the road is now laid out.—lt was decided that pending further information—which could not be obtained without visiting the locality—Messrs Hyland and Dickey be permitted to cut and remove timber, excepting tetara, from the reserve, but that no promise as to its sale could be given at present.

From Mr Emil C. Skog, 'explaining the reason he was not actually residing on eections Nos. 21 and 23, block 3, township of Ormondville.—lt was decided that as all the timber had been felled, and that if a houae was erected on so small a piece of land it would be liable to be destroyed by bush fires on adjoining lands, Mr Skog be considered to be in occupation without actual residence at present, but that on the land being inspected after the expiration of two years from date of purchase actual residence and other conditions laid down in section 17 of the Immigrants Land Act, 1873, must be complied with. From Charles Hutchins, applying, as the legal representative of the late John Hutchins, to transfer his interest in section No. 11 Bushmills Special Settlement, to James Lawrence.—Agreed to. banger's report. Reports were read from the Ranger on sections Nos. 9 and 39 Victoria Special Settlement.—lt was decided with regard to the latter that Mr M'Carthy be reminded that no house had yet been erected on the land. LICENSES. It was ordered that licenses under section 63 of the Land Act, 1877 be issued in respect to the following applications : —No. 47, by Hans Peter Mortensen for section No. 3, block 3, Norsewood survey district; No. 48, by John William Thompson, for section JSo. 20, block 6, Norsewood survey district; No. 49, by James Little, for section No. 6, block 9, Norsewood survey district. CASH APPLICATIONS. The Board resolved that applications for rural land for sale for cash other than those that have been proclaimed open for purchase under the New Zealand land regulations of the 4th of March, 1853, and the Wellington additional land regu. lations of the 14th of February, 1853, shall be dealt with as provided by section 5 of appendix C, Land Act, 1867; that is, that such applications shall have priority according to the time at which they are received, and that in the event of the Commissioner considering the applications to be so simultaneous that it cannot be decided which is first, the land shall go to auction between the applicants forthwith.

The Board then adjourned