WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3847, 23 June 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

At to-day’s sitting there were present: Messrs Thomson (in the chair), Reid, Clark, Strode, and Bastings, and. the following business was transacted ;

Wm. Shaw's application to purchase a reserve at Berwick, adjoining blocks 7 and 8, for the purpose of cutting a drain to reclaim his property adjoining, was granted. The Board declined to take any notice of an anonymous letter re laud on deferred payments, the Chief Commissioner remarking that he invariably treated such communications in a similar manner.

The application of Mr Harris, for F, G. Dalgety, to purchase twenty acres on ran 322, to include wash-yards and buildings, erected at the licensee’s cost, was granted. Survey to be made by applicant. Connell and Moodie’s application, on behalf of Andrew Allen, to purchase twenty acres behind sections 24 to 26, block 13, Glenkenich, was refused. _ P. B. Boult’s application to abandon sections 1, 2, and 4, block 2, Dart district, was agreed to; and the land ordered to bo readvertised as open for sale. H. L. Squires asked the Board to instruct the District Land Officer.as to the mode of proeeedure at the ballot for land on deferred payments in the following case :—An applicant for several allotments is successful in drawing for < he first of those sections balloted for ; should it not bo obligatory on the applicant to elect to retain or withdraw from such allotment; and in the event of Lis retaining it to retiro from the ballot for the other allotments for which ho has applied ? The following reply was minuted -Party having several applications may forego as many as he likes ; but if he draws one successfully he must be precluded from any further drawing. It was ordered that a circular should be sent to all district officers. In.accordance with Ranger report on the application of Jam s Sim for part of section 47, block 1, JMaungatua, adjoining his property, the section was reserved. The District Officer at Clyde having valurd the sections applied for by Jabez Burton and Thos. Andrew, viz, 1 and 2, block 22 at from L 3 to L 4 each, it was ordered that they should be sold by auction at the upset price of L 5 each, with valuation added. The Government’s recommendation that the Mataura Falls mill site should be leased to the Invercargill Paper Company, provided half-an-acre is set apart as a flour mill site, was agreed to ; further action to await survey.

Alexander Comeron wrote that he was willing to take tho stone quarry at Mataura Palls in lieu of land in block C, Tuturau paid for by him, of which his survey was deficient. Refused.

Francis Nicoll applied to purchase section 40, block 6, Tuapeka West. To be readvertised with the improvements added William Dawson, of Toi Tois, asked that he and his two sons instead of erecting three houses on their adjoining allotments, taken on deferred payments, and living in them separately, might be allowed to reside in the same house on one of their sections, and otherwise improve their several sections in terms of the Act, The applicants were informed that they must adhere to the conditions of their l : e?nses,

Banger Hnghan recommended that the application of Mr Hungerford for a license to occupy an acre at Newhwen, Gatlin’s, should be granted. A license under the 161st clause was granted at Ll a-year. The Government recommended that the following sections in block 17, Waipahce Hundred and district—sections 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14— should be declared land of special value and offered at auction at the upset prices set opposite them, viz., section .3 L 328 17a 6d; section 4, L 266 12s 6d ; secn T B o^ 3 n 23 i, Becfcion 9 > L 414 lßa 5 section 10, L 256 7a 6d ; section 11, L 297 10s ; section 12, LlOl 15s ; section 14, L 276 15s. The recommendation was agreed to. The land being of superior quality, having been improved by survey, fencing and otherwise, and compensation paid to the runholder, the upset price was fixed as per list quoted above. The remaining sections in the same block were declared open for application on and after July 2ft