WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 851, 9 August 1878, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

-At the sitting of the Waste Lands Board held on Wednesday the 31st ultimo, the following business of local importance came before the Board

Messrs M’Laren aud Turnbull, lessees of the Moutere run, wrote, asking that a slight alteration be made in the prescribed boundary of the block for agricultural settlement, recently recommended to be taken from that run.

Mr Turnbull attended, and explained that the alterations he wished made were to enable him to work bis sheep on the flat ground at shearing time. Request granted.

The Secretary of the Education Board requested that section .13, block V, Tiger Hill district, should be set apart as a school site. ft was decided to request the Government to reserve the land referred to, the Education Board to furnish the survey. The following petition from Blacks was also read :

The memorial of the undersigned humbly showeth that a large number of the residents of this locality are anxious to obtain land to settle upon, and at the present time there is not an acre in the district open for settlement fit for agricultural purposes. We, therefore, beg your honorable Board vi ill be pleased to cause a block of 10,000 acres adjoining b'oek V, Tiger Hill, to be opened for selection, under the Agricultural Lease Regulations, and to bo surveyed in sections as near as can conveniently be done of 120 acres each. Signed by seventysix persons.

Commissioners Clark and Green had reported upon the piaycr of this petition at last meeting, recommending that a block of 5310 acres be opened, not upon agricultural lease, but upon deferred payment. The report was adopted, and it Was' agreed-to recommend Government to give effect to the same.