WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3396, 9 January 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

Thursday,-January & | The usual meeting of the Waste Land Board ■Wa'dhclcTab ahbve;' ! Present— The Chief Commissioner (in the chair), Messrs Clark. Mr Edmund Smith’s application for the {Presbyterian congregation, Wyndham, to purchase twenty acres of the south-east ■angle of Wyndham town reserve, was deiclinectr - -- ■ A letter was received from Mr C. T. Marie, relative to his application lor a coal lease of section 117, block 2, Leaning Hock. The matter was adjourned, pending a reply I to a letter to he forwarded to the Warden ifor l\ia advice thereon. f -Messrs WhbKanS Fulfdn,.’fer ! Mf'Witlt‘dipr | Cairns, applied for a lease of the ialandiftff th»^•Waitt&v>^’;l»t t andr Kurow for gracing purposes. 'lhe application Ayas -ioi ; Messrs Connell and Moodie, for Mr James :i Rodgers; T, block 8, Glenkenioh, approved, and to be allowed to purchase?' (TtKhe sold by auction as land of special value, having been improved. Upset price Td Is per acre ; valu ations and improvements added, also cost of 'survey. ~OD £ £TJDHI , Messrs T and J, White requested that the leaseroh r(m -Nq.:? ;32T&bpUld.:; he issued to ■ them. Mr Barton appeared on behalf of | Messrs White, Mr Anderson opposed, The : Board made no order. A letter from Mr W. Turtojq, solicitor-, for MrJ. W. Robertson, renewing his application for a from the One and Two Mile as pegged out, or failing that, tq the. boundary at Queena' own, was read, ap,d the application declined. The application of Messrs Thomson and M'Lellan for a coal lease of section 117, block 2, Leaning Rock, was adjourned till the advice of the District Land Officer had been obtained. Mr James Tannahill’s application to p W , chase the Upper faieri Ferry Reserve, thirty or forty acres, was referred fop a&yice to the District Land The acting thajt a, reserve of part of run 237, for I Benevolent Asylums is a legal one, was noted. On the application of Mr James Lambert : to purchase section 7, block 37, T°k<?mai:r;iro District being ready, Mr M ‘G.apn informed the Board that a road was being, suryeved to, ; the section attjer which tljye applica- , i veyed'. The*Governm,ent referred to the Board the ; | difference between it and the Hon. Matthew i Holmes as to the amount of compensation he should receive for the proclamation of the Traquair Hundred over his run No. 51, for settlement in terms of lauae 101, Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872. It was resolved; that Mr A. W. Morris be appointed to act for the Board, and, if accepted, the Commis- ; sioner to write to Mr Holmes to reinstate < him. I The application of Mr H. P. Macklin for] a coal mining lease of twenty acres uneur-i I veyed land in the Wakatip District, was re-, 1 ferred to the District Land Officer for report'; The recommendation of the Chief Surveyor that the rate for cutting bush lines' j Should be increased to 4 2a6d per qhaip in J

" orMay~23rl«Tt,- war received,-—and-it-was-agtjeed that 2s 6d be the charge henceforth, 'tilL Jtbe--Chief-Surveyor-_re£ommend_&rbitra-tiop. • Mr James A. Douglas Applied to have Recti oil 1, block 17, Frankton, put up for sale. The District Land Officer’s valuation to be obtained, and.gold with that attached. i?he following isshe list of /approved auctioneers for the year 1874Oamaru, S. ShTimski; Waikouaiti, D. M. Speckling ; Ddnedin and Outfam, J, Milner; Tokomairirp, J. C. Arbuckje; Balchitha,Driver and Col ; Mataura Bridge* - Macforih; Lawrence, J. C. Arbuckle; Faseby, T. Stanbrookij Clyde, T;i Otanbrook: Queenstown, ; r : .