WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3472, 9 April 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual meeting of the Board was held to-day. Present: Messrs Clark, Thomson, and Butterworth. Mr.O. R. Chapman applied to purchase section 10, block 1, Kaitangata, presently a bush reserve, the timber on which had been nearly cleared away. Referred to the Ranger to report. Messrs Thompson and Irving applied for a coal lease of sec 117, block 2, Leaning Rock district. Mr Gillies, of Gillies and Street, opposed the application, on behalf of Mr Marie A report recommending the granting of the lease from the Corporation, was read. Mr Stout appeared on behalf of the applicants, The objector produced a number of witnesses to show that the district is fully supplied with coal by the present mines, The Board decided the lease should be put up to auction, compensation to be granted by the purchaser to Marie for the expense he had been put to in making roads, &c., to the ground. Messrs Connell and Moodie applied on behalf of Guthrie and Lamach, John M‘Farlane, and John Patterson, to bring under the notice of'the Board the refusal of the Chief Commissioner to carry out the decision of the Board at its last sitting in the matter of grant of lease to the above applicants under clause 85. ' It appeared from the discussion that certain conditions had been embodied in the lease, to which the applicants objected, certain conditions were agreed to as regards the applicants, Messrs M'Farlane and ' Patterson; and the case of the other applicants was allowed to lie over. Messrs Connell: and Moodie brought under the notice of the Board the report of Mr Adams, the District Surveyor, on the subject of reduced area of Mr James Rodgers’s application, block 18, Glenkenich district.