WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3579, 12 August 1874, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting cf the Board was held to-day; present—Messrs J. T. Thomson (in the chair), Strode, Butterworth, Clark, and Bastings. Mr Harris applied, for Robert Glenn, to purchase sections 3 and 9, block —, Lees (Stream Hundred, under section 85. Application granted, at LI Is per aere, subject to the runholder’s consent .bring obtained, or applicant to wait till the laud be proclaimed a Hundred.

Messrs Gillies and Street, for Borton and M‘Master, applied to have the license granted to Messrs Smith and Dolgleish to occupy inlands in the Waitaki, -opposite their property, cancelled, under the 161st clause. A mouth’s notice to bp cent to the par iti of lapse of license. ‘ r Mr Findlater’s application on behalf of William Duncan for a lease of section 51, block 4, .North Harbor and Blueskin, was refused.

Air Hugh Bruce wrote asking if he should pay for a liceuse to sell coal as well as for a license to mine. The Board referred applicant to the 9ist section Waste Land Act, 1672.

The Government declining to sell tfie sections in blocks 65, 53, and 52, Oamarn, reserved in 1800, and lately applied for by Mr 800 hj. the Board decided that the land he licensed undersection 161 of the Waste Land Act, 1872, at LI per annum. A complaint made by Pat Kane that Jas Docherty was in illegal occupation of part of section 23, block 3 Tuapeka East, was referred to the Ranger. Reconsideration of the application of Duncan M’Crae to purchase section 10, block 4, Tuapeka East, was postponed. The application of Walter Miller, for an allottment under clause 169, for forest planting on the following terms, was approved of, and tffo application to be forwarded to the Superintendent for his sanction. Terms :—Two hundred acres, extending oyer four pears—fifty acres every year to . be planted. A pplicant to fence fifty acres by Ordinance fence every year. The remainder to be open to the public till fenced. Report to be mgde to the Waste Land Board every six months, and inspection by Ranger. Agreement to plant English and foreign trees of nature approved of by fche

Board, Bft. apart; and to maintain fences, and keep out cattle. Applicant may claim a Crown Grant for such parts where trees have been grown to the number of 500 to the acre to a height of sft, blue gums 3ft, English or Foreign. Surrey to be made at applicant’s expense. The Hanger reporting no progress, or insufficient progress, the Board may withdraw the license. The license to commence from date of survey, within six months. Several applications to purchase land upon the goldfields were dealt with. After considerable discussion, Mr Charles MMnnes’s surrender of his claim to sections 2 and 3, block 2, Glenkenich, was accepted. Applications for uusurveyed land were received and granted.