WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 783, 20 April 1877, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

The usual meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held on Wednesday April 11th, when the following business of interest to our readers was transacted. Warden Simpson reported on a letter of Messrs M’Ardle and Hodge, requesting that the boundaries'of Run No. 24 might be altered, recommending that a change with Messrs M’Ardle of 4500 acres of the common north "of and adjoining the Kawarau for 2500 acres o! the northern part of their run No. 24.—Consideration was deferred for a week. A plan of T. Russell and Co., of a timber saw-mill area, section 2, Matukituki District, was brought before the Board for approval. —A pproved. The Chief Conmrssioner suggested the advisability of Mr B. P. Bayley’s appointment as Assessor of Pastoral Lands, under clause 142 of the Waste Lands Act, 1872.—The suggestion was approved of. Mr Thomas Anderson applied for a license underdause 169 of the Waste Lands Act, 1872, to occupy 30 acres of land above Cromwell, on the main road, for forest tree planting. The applicant was requested to furnish a sketch of the land he applied to occupy. The following certificate of application for a gold mining lease was approved of : M. J. Malaghan, W. Jenkins, and W. M‘Hutchinson, section 9, block XII., Skippers Creek—lo acres. The following assignments of agricultural leases were # approved of :—Thomas Taylor to Alexander Christie, sections 21, 28, 29, and 30, block VIII., Waikaia district; Public Trustee to J. F. Kitching, sections 11 and 12, block IV., and 10, block IV., Crookston 'district. The following applications to purchase un der agricultural leases were approved : Duncan Ross, sections 20 and 21, block IV., Table Hill District; Bendix Hallenstein, sections 42, 44, and 39, block XX , Shotover.