WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3532, 18 June 1874, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting of the Board was held yesterday. Present—'The Chief Commissioner, Messrs Butterworth, Clarke, Strode, Reid, and Bastings. Mr Ezra Eldred represented that if the limber Regulations are adhered to he will be compelled to abandon his limekiln at Bobs Cove, Lake Wakatip. The Chief Commissioner read an abstruse calculation which he had gone into on the subject, by which it appeared that if applicant, were compelled to take out a license to cut timber the increase in expense of making his lime would be only one-third of a farthing per bushel. Regulations to be adhered to. 6 Con duct of auction sales in the districts round Clyde and JNaseby were opened, and, after discussion, referred to the Government. The tender of Mr G. Fache. for the former district, was at 2 per cent, all round, while tenders from two other auctioneers for the districts round Naseby were very much higher. Mr Andrew Haldane applied for a lease of a Bt f x P of c ™*try along the coast west of Waikawa. The Chief Commissioner stated that applicant was the pioneer of the district, tc? fc c 6 was g ranted » under clause Ibl of the Waste Land Act, at LI per annum. r Mr James North, Portobcllo, wrote relative to the formation of a road between blocks 1 and 2, Portobcllo, and the Native Keaerve. The letter was acknowledged as received and read. Messrs Connell and Moodie, for Messrs Guthrie and Larnach, applied for a lease of a j C i reS j * an< * in block 1, Woodlands. Granted until Dec. 31, 1876 Mr Connell submitted that it would be to the advantage of the Province if larger leases than three years’ terms were granted, as with the short .leases every stick of timber would be cut; while if say a ten years’ lease were granted, only that timber would be cut which was actually fit, and the younger growth would be cultivated. The Board thought a loss of revenue would be incurred, as even if yhe timber were all cut, the land would be

still available ; and the Chief Commissioner remarked that at the rate at which the timber land was being cut and cleared, there was still a supply for the next two hundred years. Mr J. B, Bradshaw, for Mr W. H. Scheib, applied for a coal mining lease of 20 acres of laud between IN' evis and Arrow bluffs, on the south side of the Kawarau River. A prospecting lease for 5 acres was granted, subject to survey and ruuholder’s consent being obtained. ° The Lawrence District. Laud Officer reported on the application of Messrs Cotton and Henry to purchase section 13a, block 3, -Caapeka .hast, that there were no objections. k- Wehb supported the application. To be advertised in the usual way. Mr Mowat appeared iu reference to his application of last week, oa behalf of Messrs Herbert, Howatt, and Co , stating that after the matter was adjourned at that meeting, Mr Perry appeared to have come in and got the land Messrs Herbert and Co. desired, ihe Board requested that applicants send in their survey at ouce, Mr Berry’s right being confirmed. 6 e Mr W. Morgan asked the Board if it intended to sell, or would give him a re-leasa of section 64, block 4, Oamaru, stating that he had had a lease of it for ten years pavt, and had spent over L4OO on it, and that it would be unfair for it to be sold to Mr Shrimski. It was decided that the laud be declared suburban land, so as to enable it to be cut up and sold—protection to be given to applicant’s interests. Mrs H. Bateraon applied for a lease of ten acres of the Toi-Toia township reserve, for ten or twelve years, to put up a house on. ihe Board decided they had no power. The following maps were submitted and approved Section 25, block 4, Tvi-Tois ; section 23, block 6, Wyndham ; section 66, block 6, Tuturau ; section 73, block 7, do : section 68, block 6, do; section 77, block 7, do y section 7, block 5, Toi-Tois; section 21, block 4, do ; section 14, block 1, do ; section 22, block 4, do; section 15, block 1, do; section 25, block 4 do ; section 23, block 4, do; section lb, block I, do; section 21, block 1, do ; section 22, block 1, do ; section 67, block 6, Tuturau; section 69, block 6, do ; section 17, block 1, Toi-Tois ; section 7, block 2, do ; section 8, blook 5, do ; section 18, block 1, do ; section 8, block 2, do; section 19, block 1, do ; section 20, block 1, do: section 71, block 6, Tutnrau; section 9, block 5, Toi-Tois ; section 10, block 5, do ; section 11, block 5, do ; section 72, block 6, Tuturau ; section 73, block 6, do ; section 13, block 5, Toi-Tois ; section 6, block 5, do; section 20, block 4, do. Messrs J. Mardmg and Co. again wrote with reference to their proposed fish-curing establishment, submitting plan of land applied for, and offering 10s per annum for a lease for twenty-one years of 500 or 1,000 acres or more at Cascade Cove, on the West Coast. It was at first thought to grant a lease at the nominal rent mentioned, on condition that within a twelvemonth a certain amount of plant is on the ground, in terms of the application ; but, after discussion, the matter was adjourned for a week. Mr Walter Miller applied to purchase 348 acres of block 6, Waitahuna'Kast. Messrs Connell and Moodie supported the application, which Mr Bobert Dodds opposed, on tlie ground of his having previously applied for it. ihe application was received, except for the part applied for by Mr i/odds. Mr Reid suggested the appointment of an officer at Switzers, which was agreed to, Mr Wood being nominated. °