WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3812, 13 May 1875, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Board yesterday was attended by the Chief Commissioner, Messrs Clark, Keid, Strode, and Bastings. The following business was transacted ;

Mr Wm. Dalrymple, on behalf |ofj William Stevenson, applied to purchase section 36, Mock 5, Otakia dutnet (Bush Reserve). Banger to report when visiting the place, Mr B. G. Oreaghs tender for the sale by auction of Crown lands situated within boundaries of land district to be assigned to Mr Nugent Wood at 3s 6d per cent, commission, was referred to the Government* Messrs J, M ‘Lean and Co. applied for a lease of ten acres at Twenty»three-mile Bush, near .Kingston, for saw-mill purposes, and offered LI per acre as rent. The report of Ranger Bolton on the application was also received. Application refused.

Memo, pf the Chief Surveyor was read on letter of Mr James Healey, who complained of land applied for by him in 1874 being stil! unsuryeyedvand asked for redress. It appeared that Mr Healey had, almost immediately after application, been put in possession of 135 acres or surveyed land, and had only to wait some live months for the remainder. The Board considered there was no ground for complaint, • i 06 ' Secretary of the Bannockburn and Garrick Range Miners’ Association wrote obiecting t° tim appheation by Messrs Grant and Richards for a special grant of land in the vicinity of Kawarau Bridge. As the Board was committed to the grant, it was decided simply to note the protest. * Messrs Macassey and Kettle transmitted draft case of appeal by Mr J. F. Herbert for revision and approval. The following application for exchange was approved :- Robert and Peter Jenkins, section 16, block 11, Blackstone Hill. Mr Henry Adams’s application to purchase section 51, block 5, Akatore district, was refused, it Deing a beach reserve. Mr James Sim, of Maungatua, protested against the decision of the istrict Officer at Lawrence with regard to the balloting for blocks 4 and 6, Greenvale District, on the following grounds :-That Mr Carew allowed parties to ballot after they had been successful m drawing up to the limit the Act allows; that the ballot tickets had no distinguishing mark, mitims, or stamps on them to prevent fraud: and that Mr Carew decided that the eighty-two applicants for sections 26 and 30, block 4, would ballot together, but if the one applicant for section 26 drew the highest ticket the second highest would have to take section 30. Another instance of the same thing was given m respect to sections 1 and 25, block 5, where the party who applied for the two had to be content with something like eighteen acres. It was minuted that “the Board cau take no further action under the circumstances.” Messrs Cable and Drummond applied for section B, Clarendon. To be advertised for thirty days for sale by auction. Mr David Smith, for whom Mr Bathgate o?? ’ a PP lie d lo purchase sections 77 and 81 to 87, block 1, and section 20, block 2, Shbtov.er* A question of some importance was raised by this applicant. For six years he had held an agricultural lease, which he transferred to one under the deferred payment system. He now applied to purchase the fee simple, and contended that the rent he had paid for six years as an agricultural leaseholder should go aa against the purchase money. The Board were unanimously of opinion that three years’ rent was all that could oe allowed, and tefused the application. Notice was given that the matter would be brought before the Supreme Court.

Messrs Gillies and Street applied, ou behalf of Mr Archibald Cameron, for a run of liew country _tii the west of Princess Mountains. Resolved that the country be assessed, and lease to be granted on usual terms, after advevtisement for objections be published. Mr James Green applied to purchase two small comers of land in Blueskin, adjacent to 018 P l ' o P ert y•, The application was approved nndtr the 40th clause. The following applications to purchase at LI per ac™ were grouted:-Alex. Barron, sections 19 and 20, block 6, Waitahuna West; George Milne, sections 51, 102, 103, 104; block 5. Waitahuna hast. The following applications to purchase under agricultural leases were approved John Hall section 28, block 18, Tuapeka East District; John Cranley, section $9, block 10, do. ; David Hunter, section 10, block 2, do.; Richard Coxon, section 27, block 10, do. ; Thomas Mulhgan, section 32, block 10, do.