WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3924, 22 September 1875, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

dli ! usual weekly meeting of the Board wa-. neid to-.iay ; presmt—the Chief . om . mmu puer ( u the chair), Messrs Bastings Clark, Butterworth, 'ami ' trode. ° Ihe foilowing is the princ pal busino; 8 transacted

Iho postponed application by dir W, Mardhng for a lease oi section 26, block 7* j o:,i and I’ifur His,riot, came up for fur th ;r consi.Jor.itmn. It was resolved that a feuse, ho issued tor seven years under clause 91, Haste Lud er, 1872, on the condi! km Co;u. he keep a boat ready for the puulic and in a proper state of efficiency • rent LlO solely 1 " 11111 ’ fOl t,Je aurea 2 ro '°d3 9 poles

", * u " ■aur.ndered bis ’ight to purclKW, section G4, block 3, • l-mk -nien fiikct, up under tin- .-.eterred „ay.nent system ourreuder confuted to. d 0 be re-aav rtisrd as open tor up nic d iou.

Government i eon,mended that the upset puce '•) quarter .cro sections in th, tovvnsmpo L.iuslcn m.uht be raised trom > to Lo ; ami smut the remaining unsold 10 TU bri for sale at an eaily date. ibe recommendation was agreed

Lu. it was icsulv. d Lli^«L the .-urvcy , uoartment be asked what sections are unaffected °y road and railway works. On the report of the Warden at Lawrence, the Government recommended that the leasehold of tho lands comprised in blocks 5 and 10, WaiUhuua hast, and blocks 4, 5, and 7, fable Hill districts, should be disposed of by auction under the 85lh clause of the Act. as i oid of special value, instead of being offered ' r sale by auction or otherwise as previously proposed. Approved •>lv Charles Colclough, on behalf of Messrs • otter Hroihei-s, requested that run 40l may considered part of run 459. purchased by them at auction and included in th ir lease of that run. Present advertisement to bo Withdrawn, and run 459 to l>e connidared to occupy the whole quadrilateral figure excepting bush ; extra rents and payments to he paid at the rate assessed, and in ratio of auction sale.

Mr Jno. T. Evans, clerk to the Wuitaki Hoad Board, requested the Board to withhold from sole Water Reserve, section 198, block 2, Papakaio district, lately applied for by Mr chluter and referred to Ranger for report Also, that the island in the Waitaki River, opposite Messrs J. and .. M‘Lean’s property, should not he leased to them ovor one year, nor under a rent.il ot L6O per annum, Also a letter from .vir J ", Webb, for rJ. K. raig, on tho subject of his application for the wat< r-reserve. Th ,• request and letter wer.; nored.

The report of the District L ind Offim r at i-awre c« was read on the application by ,-vlr Christopher Ward to purchase hi csideuoe area at sections 4 and 5, b:oek 32, r tha r hey may de submitt’d to auction at an early date. To bo sold at auction—upset; pric., L 5 per section, with value for improvements added.

A letter was received from Mr Thos. Tate giving up section 4. block 2, ftighlcy distnct, on deftrred payments; also letter iroai District band < Ifficcr coainiuing requod lor special instructions wit > reference Hok/a'* lorwarded to TaU. Di(*t r ioc laud ■ ■ racer to _be informed that any abaudonelease is-to be re-advertised. Mes-rs Smith iutd Anderson, on b ! ,■ If oi the New Z aland and ustraliau Laud company, applied for pi mission for t'jMr manager to raise coalor lignite on Hun No 23. Kuo.v. No objections it ior station purposes only. Ihe Board, in 1873, had granted an exchange of an agricultural to a deferred payment lease from one James Downie to his son Thomas. The district Land Officer at Lawrence now reported that the son was a minor, and the Board resolved that, such being the case, he, could not lold a lease unuer the .-ct. The former action of the Board was done in ignorance of the fact of Thomas Downie being under age.