WASTE LAND HOARD.
This Day. The Waste Land Board met at noon today. Present The Chief Commissioner, Messrs Allan and Hughes. The application of Peter Walker to lease sections 1 and 2, block 1, Shotovcr district, was referred to the Government. A petition from tradesmen and others at Blacks was read, stating that they do not desire the survey of to bo cancelled, and that they arc anxious the sale should take place as early as possible, while they are not desirous for the site of the town on the north side of the Manukerikia. A petition from the Hawksbury settlers, objecting to the sa’e of the remnant of the Hawksbury Hundred applied for by Mr Douglas, was ’referred to the Government. The plan of the proposed subdivision of section (10a block 14, Clenkenieh (the sale of which as a whole was objected to by Mr J, C. Brown), was approved. The request by the surveyor for an extension of time for surveying the land applied for by ! >rbell and Miller was agi eed to. On the report of Ranger Irving on John Reid’s application to purchase section 13, block 5, Otakia, it was resolved it should be sold by auction as laud of special value. Upset price, 21 s an acre. The opinion of the Provincial Solicitor on the request of Nicholas and Martin for a transfer of lease was considered. Resolved —That the cancellation of the original application must take place, if Nicholas and Martin cannot obtain a legal transfer from the original parties William Simmonds’s application to purchase agricultural leases 8 and 17, block 2, and 11, block 10, Tuapeka, were approved : the road line to he reserved.
The letter of Cable and Drummond, repre-
seating that the survey made was not in accordance with their application, was referred to the surveyor for report. On James Lawrence’s application for a coal lease at ."hepherd’s Creek, Bannockburn (3 acres), the consent of the nmholdcr having been obtained, it was resolved that he make the usual deposit, and the lease aftjr survey to be granted on the usual terms.
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Evening Star, Issue 2942, 24 July 1872, Page 2
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350WASTE LAND HOARD. Evening Star, Issue 2942, 24 July 1872, Page 2
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