WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 963, 1 October 1880, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Tiro following business was transacted at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board held on the 22.id instant ;

A number of settlers at Ida Valley forwarded a memorial asking that blocks V and IX, Tiger Hill, and blocks X and XI, I’oolburn district, recently opened on defer! Ed payments and for agricultural leasing, should he declared into a hundred. Mr Sinclair (of .Messrs Smith, Anderson, and t'.i.) appeared before the Doard to represent the petitioners. The Chairman stated that there were COO acres remaining unsold in block V and 200 acres in block IX in Tiger Hill; 111,3 acres unsold in block X, Poolburn, and me whole of block XI, (2300 acres). Altogether about 4400 acres remained unoccupied, over which the settlers now asked the rights of pasturage. The question as to whether the runhoMer (Sir F. D. Hell) had obtained compensation for Poolburn blocks having arisen. The matter was deferred for a week, to allow the Chairman time to inquire into the question. Mr Charles Colclo'ugh, on behalf of Mr Charles Peake, applied to purchase a portion of block IX, liannockiiurn township, now reserved as a site for public buildings, and on which Mr Peake’s hotel is built. It appeared that Mr Peake had built upon the section he wished to buy, in ignorance that it was reserved.

It was agree I to postpone the application in order to see Whether the hotel had been built before the survey of tbo township was made, if afterwards, the Board considered he should have made inquiry what section he was building on.