WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3784, 31 August 1883, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

This Day. Tho Board met at 11 a.m. Present: The Chief Commissioner (Mr Horace Baker), in the chair, Captain Russell, and Messrs R. Harding find J. T. Tylec. CORRESPONDENCE. The following inward correspondence was read and considered:— From tho clerk of the Norscwood Road Board, stating that, after further consideration, tho Road Board had decided to apportion the Government grant received from tho sale of deferred payment lands as follows :—Norscwood .survey district, Block 111., road fronting , sections o, -1, f>, and 7, £31 'Is 2d ; road between Blocks 111. and IV., £40 3s 8d; Block 111., road fronting sections 13, 14, 1"), IG, 17, 18, and 28, £9 10s6d; Block VI., road fronting sections 10, 12, 1G and 17, £42 3s 7d; Block VI., road fronting , sections 18 to 21 inclusive, £17 11s 3d; road to Norscwood suburban section BG, £1 10a 10d.—It was agreed to approve tho expenditure of grant as above. From tho Kumeroa Road Board, stating that the sum of £201 13s Id is due to that body from tho sale of deferred payment lands, and submitting for approval the proposed expenditure of £101 13s Id on the road known as the middle track in block XIII., Tahoraite survey district, and of £100 on tho road in Block IX., Tahoraitc survey district, from sectionflG to section 9.—Expenditure on Block XIII. approved, but the Board recommended that the remaining £100 be divided and oxpended, ono-half on the road-lines in Block IX.,

Tahoraite survey district, and the other half on the road in or leading to Block IX., Woodville survey district. From Mr J. Hutchins, on behalf of Mr W. Meredith, offering to lease the gravel reserve in the Bush Mills .settlement.—Decided that the lease of the reserve bo offered by auction. •*• From Mr August Sonic, asking whether the Board will lease the education reserve, section 1, Block V., Takapau district.— Kef erred to School Commisioners. TTIE RABBIT QUESTION.

It was resolved, on the motion of Captain Russell, seconded by Mr Harding, "That the increase of rabbits in the vicinity of the Tautane block, which is now being surveyed and opened out by roads for settlement, will materially diminish the price the land will sell for when put up to auction, and possibly prevent any bidding for it unless a rabbit-proof fence is erected on the southern boundary of the Crown lands in the Hawkc's Bay district, and the Waste Lauds 'Board therefore recommend the Government to grant pound for pound in aid of the erection of a rabbit-proof fence to be put up on the most suitable line in the vicinity of the boundary, and failing the erection of the fence the Board is of opinion any further expenditure in surveys and roads will be useless, and should theroforc be discontinued. The remaining business was possessed ot Tio public interest.