THE WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3116, 13 February 1873, Page 2

THE WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting of the Board was held this morning. There were present Messrs Clarke (in the chair), Strode, Tolmie, and Butterworth.

Mr Neill M. Killop applied to have section 24, block I, at Akatore, offered for sale at 10s per acre. The matter was referred to the ranger of the district for his report. The consideration of bye-laws for the management of pasturage within hundreds, iu terms of Clauses 116 and 117 of the Waste Lauds Act, 1872, was postponed. Captain Fraser applied for permission to purchase 80 acres on run 335 B, to enable him to include improvements already made thereon. Application granted. A notice from Messrs Smith and Anderson. solicitors for Messrs Gellibrand and Smith, expressing their intention to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of the Board given on their application on the 10th in it., was received and read. Mr M. Fraser, on behalf of the Committee of the Church of England at Cromwell, applied for the right to pm chase a triangular reserve in Donegal street, Cromwell The application was refused, on the ground that the pigee of ground was reserved for publ'C

mrpoes. Mr Patterson, on behalf of James Pollock, ipplied for a license for a six-horse-power <aw-mill, and for a bush reserve in blocks 3 ind 4, Tuturau district. Granted. On behalf of Mr James Marshall, Mr G. p. Reid applied for right to purchase sections 11 and 12, block 15, Maungatua district, for the purpose of establishing hop-grounds. The matter was referred to the ranker of the district for report. Mr P. B. Boult’s application for a lease of tbo plantation reserve at Queenstown was ■onsidered. Telegrams from the Mayor of Queenstown, objecting to the application were read. The Board decided not to grant it. . A letter from Captain M'Kenzie was read. It agreed to the opening up for sale of 10,000 acres on bis run, No. 168, between the Waikoikoi and Pomahuka It was resolved that the unsurveyed portion be cu". up into 80 and ioo acre Woclta, and that the surveyed portion be opened for application within one month from the present time. An application by MrP. B. Breet, for permission to purchase part of the village reserve on block 3, Wakatip district was refused. The application of Mr W. J. Harrison, for a pastoral lease of 50,000 acres of country on the xokomai, was granted on the usual conditions—that the grazing capacity be assessed, and the depasturing right pot up to auction Mr Alex. MflSTab applied for permission to purchase 12,000 acres of his run, No. 111. Chatton district. The application was refused. The Board then adjourned.