WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3866, 15 July 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Board was held yesterday afternoon; present—The Chief Commissioner, Meßsr3 Bastings, Reid, ami Clark. Mr Edward Jones requested to be allowed to abandon section 1.1, block 2, taken up by him under the deferred payment system. Board cannot refund d*po<it. Abandonmeut to be accepted. The advice of the District Land Officer was rea 1 on the application of W. E. Griffin for a small piece ot re3trved land adjoining section 1, block 2, Highlay district. Refused. Mr D. H. Mervvn applied to purchase fifty acres in block 1, Tevio' district, at LI per acre, in terras of the 36th and 37ih sections of the Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872. ' o power ; the land not being in a position to be dealt with.

Mr G. F. 0. Browne forwarded objections to application 682 d, by H. L. Squires, for s;cti n 47, block 10, Waitahuna J<last,» and to application 683 d, section 43, block 10 Waitahuna East, by B. Herbert and a! M'Kinlay, being granted. Applications refused The Government recommended that run No. 11 should be cut into two parts of 5.000 acre 3 and 4,200 acres respectively, and bo sold by auction t® the bidder of the highest annual rental, in addition to the assessment payable under the I'iStli noclion of the Act at the upset price or r. :n t of Id per acre ; leas?B to commence oh tho l«t January,' 1876, and to expire on the sth Sordember' 1832, subject to the, bllowiiu? renditions Lease to terminate. r, n twelve mouths' notice being given to the lessee to that effect, without compensation ; no previous lessee of the land to be entitled to exercise a preemptive ught ; improvements made by the lessee enhancing the volue of the run, to be paid by the incoming tenant before obtaining possession ; lessee to have no claim on the Government or tin Board for compensation for improvements; and other usual I conditions. Approved. Mr Malcolm M'Uunou aud Mr John Burn: applied for a of three acrca ot tnet, for the purpose of starting a salt znanuApp.icants to be asked to define the land they require. Mr B. W. Artktn applied to purchase two out-stations of ten acres each, on run 172-1 and to have Ins homestead area increased by. eight acres J en-acre sections to be soht with runbolderr consent; homestead not to be increased, as full area h-.s already been allotted. Mr Roller:. W Aitken applied fo- run No 462,containiug 1 000 acres, and situated w,st of runs 172 a and 172b To be a>.se-;sed, aud then sold by auction on the usual terms' Mr William Brunton, per Mr H. Driver applied for a pre-emptive right of 0(0 acreonrim JVo 62 (Jraufc d ; tho Cliitf Commissions- cl.j ctin7. I The Government rsqnetted that section;. j 32 and 23, block 7, W'ainahce, taken up on . deferred payment and abandoned, should be

re-rdvertised as open for application. To be declared abandoned and ;\-;"lvert'sed. Mr Wil i:im Zanders t- . • eved hia resignation as a membor of the Foard of Inquiry for the M urt Tda district. Resignation acce 'ted ; Mr J. S, jM 'K, nz'o to bo aprointcd.

Hanger Button wrot? asking for iuttrcc tions in reference to tim'tr seized bv him at Table Bay. To be sul-i fco the best advantage, and proceeds reunited to the Receiver of I and He-venue.

W. B Flanagan applied for a lease oi chirty acres of laud at fin di Creek, Arrow district, for the purpese of prospfctirg fo< ninerala. Six months' protection granted to prospect. Tut; report of Ranger was read on the application of Poll';:!; ; nd Hall for a 'e:ise of a saw-mill site on block- 3, Wyndbam. Application grafted. The Board reconsidered tii3 application of \ir '■ illiana Brown, on hj ha'f of of Mr John Davidson, for thirty-two acres, sectiou 8, block 7, Coast district. .Refused.

Mr James Lumsden, sou-., requested tha' he right held by John Lums ien over section 10, block 10, Waikaka, under the deferred payment system, might bo transferred to section 25, Idock 9, io the same distric' Declined.

The District Land ffFecr at Qtieenstowr asked for instructions as to how he .-ho>l< deal with deposits received on deferred payment applications. Referred to the Government.

Messrs Council and Moodi ■?, on behalf of a number of pers-na to whom interim cert.ifi ctes on deferred payments 'a.l been panted for land near Macraes, and to whom notic in thef urn of the 14th schedule of the Lan-."-Act. 1872, had '-'cen issued, applie 1 to be allowed to execafe their liecus-j at Macraes, on the occasion of the Distrio". i and (ffficer*: vis't to that place on the 'J4ch inst. Lisrrict Land Officer to be requited to comply with their request in case of his being able to do so. The consideration of a case for submission for the opinion of tbe Supreme Court re H< rbei t and Clark's application was postponed. * n the suggestion rf Mr Reid, Mr Jamrs Liobert Mackay was appointed Warden and Ma ' : ughau Ranger, for the Herict Hundreds.