WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3112, 8 February 1873, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

We continue our report from yesterday : The valuation of improvements made by Mr Tynan off section 10, block 1, Outran), at L I*ol4 18s sd, was approved of. The following question, with answers appended, was asked concerning the "Taqnair Hundred : —< ’an the Board approve of pasturage regulations made by the Wardens? Answer The legality of the declaration of the Hundred being in abeyance, the Board cannot interfere.

Messrs Gil ies and Street, for E P. Boult, applied for a lease of part of the Plantation Reserve, Queenstown, under the KDst section of the Waste Lands Act, 1872 The anplicant was requested t > furnish the opinion of the Corporation of Queenstown. ’i he application of the district surveyor, Mataura, for permission to complete the survey of the block on Conical Ilil s station, previous to entering on the survey of sections applied for in ToisTois, Wyudham, and Wakaia districts was approved. The appeal of Walter -Miller, under clauses 135 and 132, Waste Lands Act, 1872, against a decision of Mr Grundy, inspector of Depasturing Licenses, who refused him a license to run sheep on the Tuapeka Goldfields was referred to Hie Government.

The application of J. W. llobortson and Ho. to purchase five acres at One-mile Creek, near Queenstow', was postponed at the re quest of the Superintendent, Mr Heckler applied for an extension of time to prospect for copper at Hawksbury Bush. It was intimated that the Board had no power to act in the matter. The request of the district surveyor for two months’ extendon of time, to survey Mr James Logan’s and other applications in the Waipahi District, was agreed to.