WASTE LAND BOARD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3935, 29 February 1884, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The Board met this morning. Present: Commissioners Buchanan and?\vSutton, M.H.R.'s, Captain Russell, Mr Harding, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands. COIIHESI'ONDENDE. V From the chairman.of tho Makaretu Road Board, enclosing a . plan showing the road line on which it. is prOposod to - expend the grant which has . occurred from the sale of lands on deferred payments iiv Blocks I. and 11., Ruataniwha survey district.—The Board decidod to sanction tho expenditure . ofthesum of £51 ;12fl 9d as suggested oft/ road fronting sections 15 to 20 and,24 to 36 inclusive. From chairman of Kumeroa Road Board, enclosing maps showing the roads on whioh it is proposed to expend a stated sum halfyearly out. of the giants from the sale of deferred payment lands.—lt was decided to inform the Road Board that the..Waste Lands Board did not consider their proposals tho best that could bo adopted, for it was quite probable that the payments from tho Treasury will vary from year to year as selectors pay up the balances of their purchase monios. Instead of approving of a half-yearly expenditure the Board will sanction a Jump.sum to be laid out on each road line, leaving to the Roadi Board to decide what amount shall be spent halfyearly on each line. From Thomas P. Hewitt, the selector on deferred payment section-13, Block VIL, Village of Kumera, asking whether he would be allowed to reside on an adjoining section on which he has built a house.— The necessary permission was granted. From Johan Wringer, requesting permission to cut on the Crown lands adjoining his selection sufficient timber, to; repair th_v boundary fence.—The necessary permission , was gran tod to. take timber, for fonoing, but not for sale. "••■■ ' .-■->

From Mr Brabazon,. stating; that at a public meeting at Makotoku it was decided to ask the Waste Lands Board, to t recommend the Government.to have the whole of the Raipaitai block sold on, deferred payments, also to have the Ohu block surveyed and sold on deferred payment..—The. Board decided to adhere to its, former decision to sell one-halt of the land on. deferred payments. :■ '■ •"* : -l ■:'• ' - : ' ;

An application was received from, A. H. Ross' to. purchase section 22, Block I.j-< Ruataniwha survey district, 220 acres,— Approved. .:■-.■■''; iz .-. Application from Gudbrand Ewenson to take UP « n deferred payment section 2, Block VI., Ruataiiiwha survey district.— Ordered that a license be issued. ; :■[? It was decided to fix the 15th April next as the day on "which applications, will be' received for the lands to be sold: on deferred payments in Block XL, Woodville district, and Block XIII Tahoraito district. -

Tim Board was loft sitting considering the upset pricos and conditions of sale at which land in Makqtuka and Danevirke should bo sold.