WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

~ o The following items of interest we extract from the report of the meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held on the 23rd instant. An anonymous letter, with reference to lands on deferred payments, was received. The Chief Commissioner said no notice would be taken of it, as he invariably treated all such communications so. Mr P. B. Boult’s application to be allowed to abandon sections L 2, and 4, block If., Dart district, was agreed to ; and the run ordered to be advertised as open for sale. MrW. 1,. Squires appeared before the Board, and requested it to instruct the District Land Officer as to the mode of procedure at the balloting for land on deferred payments in the following case. Applicant having applied for several allotments was successful in drawing for the first of ten sections balloted for, should it not be obligatory on applicant to elect the right to withdraw from such allotment, and in the event of his retaining it, to retire from the ballot for allotments for which he has applied ? The Board replied, a party having several allotments, may forego as many as he likes, but if be draws one successfully, he must bo precluded from any further, drawing. A circular to that effect should be sent to all district officers. The District Land Officer at Clyde, referring to the regulations adopted by the Board on the 21st of April last, with regard to dealing with deferred payment deposits, wrote stating that he was not the proper custodian of deposits, and suggested that they should be lodged with the receiver of gold revenue, to be placed in his deposit account, and to be dealt with by him as applications to he decided. Postponed. The District Land Officer at Clyde forwarded valuation made by him in regard to the sections applied for by John Brnnton and Thomas Andrew, viz., sections 1 and 2, block XXII., Roxburgh. The valuation in each case was estimated at from L 3 to L 4. The land was ordered to be sold by auction at the upset price of L 5 each, with valuation added. Mr W. Dawson and his sons, of ToiToia, requested that, instead of erecting their houses on their joint allotments taken up by them under the deferred payment system, and living on them separately, they might he allowed to reside in the same house on one of their sections, and otherwise improve them, in accordance with the terms of the Act. Applicants were informed that they must adhere to the terms of their licenses.