WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3909, 3 September 1875, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

Ihe postponed meeting of the Board was held to-day; present, the Chief Commissioner, Messrs strode, Bastings, and Butterworth.

Mr Henry Kitchener, for Colonel Kitchener, applied to purchase a small piece of Crown lands between his pre-emptive right aud Shag River, being an area of one acre two roods, to complete bis property. The Board considered it inadvisable to part with the ground, and the application was consequently refused. Mr John Bright, on behalf of the Hawkesbury Road Board, asked permission to draw off the waters of the Hawkesbury lagoon. At iiawkvsbury there are rival municipalities, one wanting the lagoon emptied and planted with trees, while the other wants the lagoon as full as possible to prevent foul smells which arise when the lagoon’s bottom is partly exposed. The following minute was recorded The Beard cannot interfere, but will offer no objections if the inhabitants desire the work to be done.”

Mr Charles C. Boyes’s application to purchase ten acres of run 331 fora woolshed was approved.

Messrs Connell and Moodie, for Mr ISdw-ard Murphy, applied for extansion of term of Clutha lease at Sandspit, or to be •ilkwed to purchase the land under the 3Gth clause of the Waste Lauds Act of 1872. It was resolved that'an additional seven years’

leaM be granted, the rent for the new tern to be six shillings per acre per annum, with consent of the Superintendent, and to commence on termination of the present lease.

The Board, at the request of Messrs Connell and Moodie, resolved to ask the Government to survey Totara Island into ten acre sections before its being put up for sale as agreed to at a previous meeting. The Board having considered a letter from Mr Robert W, Aitken regarding his adjourned application to purchase land at Waiau, the Board resolved to submit the land for sale by auction. Messrs Gillies and street, for Mr Thomas applied to purchase at LI per acre five chains on each side of section 36, block 1, Akatore, about forty-one acres, to complete his property. It was resolved that the Ranger’s report be obtained. It was resolved to ask the Government to have the Waipahee village surveyed into sections, so as to meet an application by Mr Donald M‘Laughlin, to be allowed to purchase some laud there.

David Henderson and Co. wished the Boara to instruct the Ranger to license them to cut timber from Crown lands for Government purposes, charging per tree instead of per chain frontage as per regulations. It having been stated that some of the Government contractors made great havoc among the timber, the Board’s resolution was—“ The regulations to be strictly adhered to.” *