WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3467, 2 April 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

meeting of the Board was ; held to-day.. Present—Messrs Strode;. Butterworth, Thomson, Bastings, and Clark. : • ■ ' i _ hlr Stout applied, 6n behalf of Messrs ■’% a lease of section! 117, block 1, Leaning Rock, for coalmining. • Objections by Mr Marie to the same 1 were considered: • The hearing ef the application was adjourned for one week. peti , fci -° d from the sawyers and splitters at Moeraki Bush was read, praying that certain alterations. and restrictions with respect to their should be re-consideted the Board, as a hardship imposed upon them. • The Board decided that its regulaturns should be adhered to: a Banger on the Bush ‘Reserve, Bampden, was instructed to prosecute parties who had been cutting without a license ; the cut wkL ° n the B r<mnd to be seized and Reid on behalf of Messrs Herbert, M Kihlay, and Co., for a sawmill hcense for 130 acres, in two blocks of 50 and on tfach side of the Clhthain the Ranklepurn district.' The application as made wad refused. ' j T ’ Connell; (and Moodie applied, bn t> °^_^ r M‘Farlane, for the decision 'Of the Board on hi« application fot 1 a sawmill tease of 320 acres in block 9, Glenkenich. Ihe application was granted. v^? ai ? A ® onne U ®hd Moodie applied, on i behaß of Messrs Guthne.and Larai&.for the : * he their application for. *1 160 acrea df Woodlands Application granted. ; 1 Btewart and Doughty annlied on beidt o MrJ S. Smith, talM SKthe W.uog«tM Bu.h, The application wa. granted on the usual terms. .Messrs Stewart arid Doughty applied, on behalf of Mr George Mann, for a saw mill license for part of the Clarehdbn Bush. The application was granted. - Mr James Reid, applied to be declared the purchaser of section 30, blook d, Wyndham district, or otherwise that the deposit paid V °Q «ais sebtien.he returned. The anpliflatjon was referred to the District Land Officer. . Messrs Herbert Howat and Go, applied fordSO acres sawmill lease in blocks-14 and c-i m Q^ e m°li--320 acres east of secs. 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64, add 160 acres north of the area marked “bush .reserve.” It was decided to grant 320 acres, lease to end on An+ em^ri, r under clause 85, of the £320 full fee, payable in advance, * 1 a ? d Moodie, for Mr John Pl f. led for the decision of the Board lr«l ? lnW r , a sawmiU tease of 160 thl 8 ’ Qlen H nich . but afterwards the application was withdrawn. . "*® aßrs White Brothers applied that their for . pre^m Ptiv-e right-on The District Land Officer reported oh Mr ?i PU^ tio / t0 4> Hill The

The application? "of Mr George Burke, to -purchase secs. 2 and 14, block 3, and 2 abd 4, block 6, Tuapeka West, held under agricultural lease, was approved. The opinion of the Attorney-General on the question raised by Sir F. D. Bell as to the power of the Board to sell the land in Shag Valley, formerly part of his runs 109, 255, and 80, and lately added to the Goldfields, was received and noted. The application of Mr Patrick Kean to exchange his lease of sec. 19, block 3, Tuapeka East, for a lease under the Waste Lands Act, was approved.