WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3051, 28 November 1872, Page 4

WASTE LAND BOARD.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Waste Land Board there M ere present - the Chief Commissioner (in th; chair), Messrs John Allen, Duncan and Hughes. Messrs Mouat and M'Keay. for A, F, M‘Kenzie, applied fora saw-mill license to cut timho” on block 4, Gknkenich.—Granted from Ist January, nui>j n ' i t to the usual com dilions. Mr A. Macarthur, manager of run 202, vote, denying lint he had ‘dosed the »oad th ough his pre-emptive right. Howard Murphy’s oiler 1,0 retain his lease of the (jlutha Sandspit. if ho get tl)e present year rent free, was declined Thus. Hammond’s application to purchase sections 5, 014(3, 0, block 5, Waitahuua East, was agreed to. The Assessor reported that run 303 could carry 4300 sheep ; No. 391, 3100 sheep ; No. 350,‘ 14,250. Thu request of W. Falconer, Captain of the Utepopo Volunteers, that sections 7, 8, and 9, block 23, Herbert, should be reserved for their drill shed, ami section 22 to 29 inclusive, block 29, for a ri He range, was declined. On the application of Taylor and White to purchase sections 3 and 17, block 2, Midwakatip, it was resolved to open section 17, the other section having already been leased by the Warden, Mr M‘Gushap applied for the extension of leave to J, Saunders to prospect for coal at* wake River.—Three mouths’extension was granted. Robert Rennie’s application for a lease of the Boat Harbor Reserve was declined.