WASTE LAND BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 637, 3 July 1874, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

—o— At the usual weekly meeting 0 f the Waste Land Board held on Wednes. day the 24th ultimo the following ], us ;' ness of local interest was tra isacted • | Mr Doughty applied on behalf of MrJ D. Feraud, of Clyde, to purchase sections' 43 and 49, block 1, Leaning Rock district lately hold under an agricultural lease The application was granted. Mr Thomas Marsh applied for a lease of five acres of land in block 1, Cromwell district, for a coal mining lease. The---plicaut stated that he wished to raise cXI on the west bank of the Kawavau— Re. solved that the land be surveyed, and if there be no objections lease to be granted on usual terms. Mr John Towan applied to purchase 50 acres, section 3, block I, Lrcrnwell ,|i,. trict. The District Laud Officer seiu i„ a report recommending a sale',f the land at 1/. per acre.—The Bard (decided flint the laud should be re-surveyed, and that ll 10 applicant should obtain the const it of the runlioMe • or his attorney: the pover of attorney to he submittedlo the Hoard. Air 11. J. ( ope applic I for protection tj prospect for coal at the Deep Creek Kawarau. - Granted. Alessts 1i a A cat and Al‘Donald applied for permission to prospect fur copper on Campbell and Low’s Ruu, Manuherikia. Granted. Tlie application of Air J. Lichfield to ex. change his leases of Sections 2, 3, IS, Block 11, Tiger Hill district from the Gold-fields’ Act to the Waste Lands Act was sanctioned. The applcation of J. Harding and Co. for a lease of about 500 or 1,000 acres of land at Duskey Cove for 21 years at the yearly rental of 10s. was brought up for consideration . The applicants stated their purpose was to open a deep sea fishery, and that they intended employing a large number of surveyors, fish curers, agriculturalists and laborers ; the right of cutting timber,* and grasing cattle and sheep to be given thorn. The matter was referred to the Provincial Secretary,