WASTE LAND BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 798, 3 August 1877, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

' -o- ; At the usual weekly meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held on Wednesday, the 25th ult., the following was the business 1 of local importance, it r | Mr Andrew Young applied, under the | 54th section of the Act, for a lease of section 4, block 111., Teviot district. The District Officer’s report showed that the applicant had not complied with the conditions of his deferred payment lease. The Board resolved—" That the applicantmust comply with the clauses providing tor residence and improvements before he can obtain the lease.” | Mr Strode:—lf you get people to com- ! ply with the conditions, you will prevent dummyisra and all kinds of trickery. You had better throw it overboard—the whole system is at an end, if you allow • this invasion of the law. Mr Francis Woodhouse applied forsections . 10. 8, and C, block 111., Teviot district. The District Land Officer’s report showed that Woodhouse had not complied with the conditions respecting cultivation, residence, 4c., and his three years’ term had expired. Mr Green; The applicant not having complied with the conditions respecting residence and improvements, I maintain that he has forfeited his right to the lease. Mr Clark : The District Officer should report every six months. It is your fault for not looking after your tenants. The Chairman : The residence is the keynote to the whole system. Mr Green : If it were not imperative for lessees to reside on the land, you could not keep to the deferred payment system. Mr [Clark : What about receiving the rents ? Mr Strode : It is entirely his look out. So long as he puts the improvements on the land within the three years that is all you have to do with it. Tlo Chairman : Section 5 of the Act, 1875, says that he must reside on the land within the first year. The Board.resolved—“ That the request be declined, the conditions not having been complied with within the time specified by the Act.” Mr Butterworth : Are you going to resume possession, and make an example of him ? The Chairman : There are many stronger cases than this. Some applicants have not complied with the conditions at all. Here there has been a partial compliance. A report was read from the District Land Officer of Clyde in reference to the letter of the Chairman of the Benger Progress Committee, protesting against the sale of land recently surveyed on the west bank of the Molyneux, near Ettrick, lately applied for by Messrs Patrick and M'Leod.—The Board adhered to the former resolution, and declined to reserve the sections 8, 9, and 10, as requested. An application for exchange of agricultural lease for deferred payment lease, from Patrick M’Gettigan, for sections 47, 48, and and 51, block 1., Cairn Hill, was approved.