WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3883, 4 August 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting of the Waste Band Board was held to-day; present— The Chief Commissioner (in the ch .ir), Messrs Bastings, Butt rworth, Clark, and Strode. T ho following was the principal business transacted :

Mr George B. King, on behalf of Mr A. M‘Donald, of Dunk- Id, applied that one acre opposite Stonewall streer, and block 4. Dun keld, should bo offered for sale as the next Crown lands auction held there, as be was desirou-. of purchasing it for an betel site, the traffic having been diverted from the present site in hast Ferry st eet by opening of new road. Government to be asked to surver the whole township*. '‘he fhstrio' Land Officer at Lawrence returned deferred payment leasts in favor of Mr John MTve iy, for stet ous G, 8, 9, and 15, block 7, and Mr John M'Allister for sec-

tion 22, block 7, Waitahuna East District, stating that the sections had been the receptacle of tailings and fouled water from the gold-workings above, and recommending that the grant for those eections should be restricted so as to give no rights to the owners against miners using and polluting the river in terms of clause 5, section 54, Waste Linds Act, 1872, if there is power to do so. survey Department to be asked to make a mining reserve of sufficient breadth along the river banks. Mr William Jackson Barry tendered to conduct Crown land salec in the Queenstown district at half per cent, commission. Bead for future consideration when a vacancy occurred.

The government requested to be informed of reasons for having blocks 4, 5, and 7, Table Hill, and 5 and 10, Waitahuna East district, surveyed into sections and opened for sale, 'they also requested application fo reservation of section 11, block 8. Crookston district. The Covermnent to be informed that the Board wish these blocks surveyed, because there are numerous applications for the same, and the Board desires to see the land which is non-auriferous occupied by bond fide settlers. The Government to be informed that the application was a persona), one by Messrs Oeagh and Howatt, a depu: ation from chc Tapanui Progress Committee.

The District Officer at Lawrence requested information with regard to the sale of block 1, Tuapeka West aud Beaumont, containing about 1,000 acres. Government to be recoinmender, to survey it before opening bloek for «a e present advertisement to be with-, d rawu.

The Government asked for information with regard lo section 51, vVa'hemo district, being su. veyed mt-.-i quarter-scie sections as. a township for sa.o.— Mr Cla- k ; i’h-it is too much of a good thing to ask the Board to give reasons for everything v Inch it does.— The Chief Commissioner : The Hard is in-re to administer too -Vasrc Lands Act, and i? this land of thin; goes on toe sooner the B-» ».rd ceases to sit the better. ’ i'A k the reason we ehoud give is because it L -uglily desirable. v lr trode ; That, won hi simply hj : a rep tb ion of the Board’s form-r minute - Mr Clark ; I think it should be simply stated that the memo, was read.—Mr S rode : that would be b.i the mos' dignified course, Mr Butterwur hj : I’hey had better come and sit here themselves. Ihe Board’s minute as recorded was “Memo, read.”

The District Land Officer, Lawrence, sent letter of Mr James If. M'lntire, containing a request that service of notice to uplift license for deferred payment section in favor of Mr Hugh M‘Lennau be deferred till he returned to the country. It was resolved that the Board cannot agree to the proposed arrangemeut.

Reconsideration of draft case as amended by the Provincial Solicitor, re lands of special value in Heriot Hundred to be submitted to the judgement of the Su reme Court uud-r clau-e 6, Waste Lands Hoard Act, 1867. Referred to Mr Strode and the Ohio Commissioner to confer with Mr Stout and settle upon the issues. Mr D. Mailoch'a request that theßjard w uld grant a company twenty-one years’ lease of the Waikouaivi lagoon at a nominal rent, with the view of draining off the water and otherwise improving the locality, was declined.