WASTE LAND BOARD.
A meeting of the Board was held to-day There were present—'lhe Chief Commissioner, and Messrs Tolmie, Clark, and Rutter worth. Mr Thomas Lewis applied for a lease to construct a tramway from section 50 through sections 36 and 30, block 8, Akatore district, at an annual rental of L 5 per annum The applicant was ordered to furnish a survey of the ground, and the sale of the sections was postponed fur two months. Mr Matthew Hay reques ed that the sale of block 3, Glcnkeuioh, should not beheld in Dunedin, It was esolved that Mr Hay be asked to come to Dunedin to the sale. The application of Angus M'Phail to have bis goldfields lease of section 20, block 1, Bengcr district, exchanged for a lease under the “Otago Waste Lands Act,” was granted. Mr William Colville requested information as to how a lease of part of the goldfields adjoining Mr H. Campbell’s run, Lake Wanaka, could he obtained. The matter was refered to the Government for information. The report of !•' anger limes was read on the proposition of Mr Mculove to give a quarry in exchange for the reserve in section 44, block 9, Awamoko district. Mr Menlove was requested to get a report from the local Road Board ou the matter before the Beard decided. The application of William Tennent, for a lease of two acres of the reserve at the junction of the Mimihau and Mataura for a brickfield, was considered. The applicant was requested to send in a survey of the ground by next -week. Messrs Webb and Fulton, as agents for Mr Wm. Ash, applied for a lease of eight or ten acres of the reserve on section 6, block 8, block 8, Papakaio district. The matter was referred to the Government, for the report of the road engineer as to the propriety of laying off sections and the number and nature thereof. Mr John Edgar, secretary of the Upper Shotover Mining Association, requested that measures should be taken to prevent a recurrence of bush ilres in that district. It was resolved to ask the Association to name any of the hundreds rang rs to the Board, and the Board will give him legal supervision of the forests. A resolution from the Government, agreeing to grant temporary occupation of unsold sections in the Waihola district to German and Danish immigrants, was read. The original request was —that the immigrants be allowed to occupy two quarter-acre sections each. The resolution was adopted, and it was resolved that the names of the applicants be forwarded at once, and the sections allotted.
Captain M'Kenzie requested to have the Board’s interpretation of clause 38 of the Act, and also that the Board re-considor the decision of the Chief Commissioner on his application of the 20th instant in regard of block 3, Glenkenich district. The Board decided that deposits must be taken at the same time as the applications, whether at the head or the district offices, and that the same be held by the receiver of land revenue until the auction sale is concluded, and failing a sale by auction, all deposits to be forfeit'd. With regard to the second request, the Board resolved that the former deciion should be maintained, and that the land should go to auction. Captain Mackenzie then intimated his intention to appeal against the decision of the Board in the matter.
The application of Mr John M'Lean, for a site for an accommodation house, on section 7, block S, Papakaio district, was considered j and it was resolved that the matter be postponed, pending the report of the Road Engineer. Mr Gillies and Street presented a memorial from settlers in the district of Kaitangata, praying that sections 10, 12, and 13, block I, Kaitangata, be made a permanent bush reserve. Agreed to. Mr. G. F. Reid, on behalf of Mr, Robert Cunningham, applied to purchase the site of bis business in Hamilton. Resolved, that the opinion of the District Warden should be first obtained as to the sale of the township. Mr Tolmie applied for a license to occupy sections 7, S, and 9, block 3, Railway reserve, Waipabi district, on terms of 2s per acre. Granted.
The application of Mr Duncan Gillanders for a pastoral lease of 20,001) acres north of the Mouowai Lake, on the Hunter Mountains, without competition, was refused.
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Evening Star, Issue 3152, 27 March 1873, Page 2
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733WASTE LAND BOARD. Evening Star, Issue 3152, 27 March 1873, Page 2
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