WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3407, 22 January 1874, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Board was hold to-day. j. Present—-Messrs. Strode, .Clark; Butterworth, and Reid. .Mr James Secular applied' for sections. 2 and 7, Table Hill district, to complete bis property. The application was declined. Mr Gillies-appeared on behalf of Mr Thomas Kennard,. Palmerston, in reference to an application made by the latter for section .49, block 7, Waipahee district, under the deferred payment system. The clause of the Act provides, “ Except as herein mentioned, any person may on any day, during office, hours, apply personally to i a Land Officer acting ia the district for a license to occupy an allotment of waste land in any block of laud proclaimed or set apart for the purpose, as thereinafter provided, in any hundred containing such block, and shall at such; time the fee for one half* year s occupation as herein ptovided. Every applicatibn'shall, so far as the features of the country and the survey of the Province will permit, be of a rectangular form, and of a depth; not less than twice the length of frontage.” Mr Gillies explained that his client in making the application had neglected to comply with the provision, of the clause as to making personal application, and oii that ground the Land Officers had re*, fused it. He pointed Out that the provision requiring personal application was highly inconvenient to parties situated like his client, whs resided at a distance from the Land Office.

The Board admitted the hardship >f the case, but they could not interfere, as a sub* sequent application bad been received' for the land in terms of the clause. It was fur* ther stated that, the clause of the Act was imperative, and that personal application in ail such cases was hecessary, : An application by Messrs Herbert and Cb-i Victoria Sawmills, Tapanui, for a timber license, was mentioned, and formally adijourned till next meeting. A' report was read from the District Officer to the effect that the application .of Mr James Tannabill, to become purchaser of a piece of laud at the Taieri Ferry, was reasonable. The land was ordered to be surveyed at the applicant’s .expense, and the application to be granted subject to the consent of the runholder. . ’ -

Messrs Driver,, Stewart, and Co. applied, on behalf of Mr Humphries, for a depasturing license over the Strath Taieri hundreds. Granted conditionally. • Mr K. C. Ferguson, on behalf of Mr Duncan Campbell, made a similar application to that of Mr Gillies with regard to an appli cation made under the 49ch section of the Waste Lands Act, for sections 33, 37, and 38, block 7, Waipahee district. The applied tion was refused, on the ground that the provisions of the Act, requiring personal application, .had not been complied with.