WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3431, 19 February 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting was held today. Present- Messrs Reid, Clark, Thomson, Butterworth, and Strode. Mr Win. Percival applied to purchase sections 1 and 2, block 7, and 1,2, 3, and 4, block 8, Blueskin. No appearance of appli-cant—-the application struck out. Mr C. L. Swanson applied, under clans--36, to purchase 320 acres of Run 193. Wyndham district. 'lhe Board decided that the applicant, being lessee of the land, had no right to take up more than 640 acres. Mr Howorth applied on behalf of Messrs Stewart and Gow, for approval of plan ef proposed application for agricultural lease of 640 acres on Run 328. The land being situated in the Switzer’s District, the Board decided that the application required to be made at Invercargill. The Hon. H. Campbell applied for rehearing of application by W. B, Cairns, for a license to occupy two islands of the Waitaki, opposite»itekaike.—Mr. Haggitt, who appeared for the applicant, explained that the licensee was the keeper of an accommodation house and shanty, and that his client had naion to believe that the lease was applied for with the view of further extending his shanty operations. _ Applicant also stated that the island was in bis possession, and that there was some doubt whether it belonged to Canterbury or Otago —The Board decided to withdraw the application, on the groqnd that the circumstances were not as stated by .the applicant for the license, and that he had not obtained the runholder’s Consent in terms of thp Act. The Board further recommended that steps shpuld be taken to fix the boundaries between the two Provinces, Mr Stout, on behalf of Mr Jas. Black, applied for a lease for agricultural purposes of section 65, block 7, Waipahee. The Board decided that before the license be granted the fact should be made known, in order that the settlers might have an opportunity of objecting to the license. Mr John Youngson applied for lease of sections 12, 13 and 16, block 7, Glenkenich district. The Board decied that it had no power to comply with the application. The consent of the Government was applied lor to the temporary reserve of sections 1, 2, and 3, Table Hill. The application was noted. An application was made by Mr Hankson for a grant of land to himself and his wife, as be had paid his passage to New Zealand by the City of Dunedin in December, 1873. The application was made in terms of the QC L? a , t * l . e Immigrants’ Land Act, 1873, which provided that everv person of the age of eighteen years, and not exceeding sixty, arriving in New Zealand, after the passing of this Act, from the United Kingdom or elsewhere than any of the Australasian Colonies, including Tasmania, who shall have paid (he .cost of his passage to New Zealand, and who desires to settle upon and cultivate land therein, shall, subject to the provisions of the Actj be entitled to a iyee grant of a piece of land to the value of jiiff; and if any auc|i person bo (be head of a Wily, ‘the value of t!he piece of land shall be fo the number of the members of Such family, the post of whose passage shall have been paid by hiiq, that is to say, in regp,ept of his or her own passage, land to the yalne pf L2Q, aqd in respect of (he passage fit each member of sqoh faipily of the age of fourteen years or upwards land to the value of L2O; and for each men. * ber of such family of less age than 14 years, land to the value of LlO. Members of a family for the purposes of the Act shall inelude wife, child, grandchild, nephew, aud neice of the head of the family. Provided no person shall be entitled to such grant of land un.esa he shall, before leaving the place of departure for New Zealand, have obtained from the Agent-General, or any person appointed by him, a certificate in writing that he ana the members of his family, in respect of whom he claims, are suitable immigrants. —The application was ref erred to the Government.

: Mr Donald Reid, solicitor, Tokomairiro, applied on behalf of Mr Peter M‘Gill, for payment of the cost of 94 acres, deficient in sections 28 and 38, block 4, Wyndham. Ihe application was referred to the Government. Plans of the following pre-emptive right agricultural leases are submitted for approval : Section 2, block 4, Tiger Hill ~ 1, ~12, Manitoto >, 8, ~ 3, St. Bathans „ 1, „ 8, Benger „ 2, ~ 2, Tairas » 13, „ 1, Wakefield The plans were referred to the Survey Office tor initial. A question was put as to the price agricultural lessees who exchanged under clause 62 of the Waste Land Act, 1872, have to pav as purchase money. Mr Barton’s (solicitor) opinion agreed to by the Bard at its meeting on 6tk February, 1873, that it should be 17s 6d, in fourteen payments, extending over seven years ; and the opinion of the Provincial Solicitor, that it should be 255, payable at 3s fid per acre the first year, and 3s 7d per acre for the other six years, were submitted. The Board directed that the opinion of the Judges should be asked upon the point.