WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3948, 20 October 1875, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Waste Land Board was held to-day; present—the Chief Commissioner (in the chair), Messrs Bastings, Butterjforth, Clarke, and Htrode. Messrs Culms and Street’s application for Mr James MM ay, to lease two acres of land, being part of the Hawksbury Bush Reserve, block 5, Hawksbury, adjoining section 52, on Iho east bank of 'toncy Creek, was referred to tbo banger for report. Consideration of case for his Honor the Judge under clause 6, Waste Lands Board j Appeal Act, 1872, was continued lat. As to whether a person who has occupied laud for three years under a lease granted under the Goldfields Act, 1866, and has complied with all the conditions of the lease is iu the same position as t • rights of < ureduse, &0., as a person who has occupied land for three years under a lease on deferred payments nn er the Waste Lands Act, 1872. 2nd What amount, of parch se money the agric dtural lessee must pay; 25s or 17- 1 nd or what sum? 3rd. *he her the lease must be for seven years or ten, or for what term ? A length}' discussion took place on the draft as prepared, and some slight alt rations having been made, the draft was approved f >r subi isL-iou. Mr Alex Orr inquired wh thor, as a de ferred payment lessee, ho is liable to pay half cost of f ucing the boundary line betw.cn his neighbor and himself. The inquirer w s referred to hi- own solictor. Conni lerauou of a ease for aubmis i m to his ooor the Jud-eunder 6 f the Wa te Lands Hoard .Appeal Act, 1867, rega dm,, receipt of applications for deferred payment block iu ib riot Hundred, and a lotmcnt of twenty-three of ih 8. by the Li-irict Laud Officer at Lawrence, partly argued at the la J, meeting of the Hoard, wa resumed Con suleratiou postponed till next meeting of the Hoard, draft to bo revised and altered in the meantime. The District Engineer having reported favorably on Co onel tchener’s application for a sma 1 piece of land in Uunbac . district, n.ppoait. his pre-emptive ri. ht numbered section -.4, the saio was approved of, provided survev is submitted, showing bridge site and a reserve of the same, Mr ■' urray’s application for a sect on at Man ka Creek for forest-tree planting was refused, Mr J. 8. Webb, for Mr W. B. Cairns, requested the Board t withdraw the per mission granted to the manager of Kurow Bun to raise lignite for station purp so*, befused. Mr Manuel Joaqnim withdrew his application for land in Eitrick, and as he and others had jciscovered a lead of gold running across the land, advised that no part of the mining ic-.e. ve should be sold. Withdrawal approved. The following memo from the Provincial Solicitor as to dealin with lands on deferred payments iu toe Heriot Hundreds and issue or licenses therefor was read:—“l have a.-ked the Keuistrar to t-lcgraph and he has douo so, asking he judgment to bo delivered,” Memo, from the Provincial Solicitor as to dealing with land a on defem d payments in Heriot Hundred, and issue of licenses therefore, was read. The following was the memo submit;ed to tho Provincial Secretary by the Chief Coiumus oner, and referred to tho Provincial Solic.tor f->r advice The Waste Land Hoard at its meeting of the date (October 13) in considei’ing the question of granting lice ses for certain lands iu Heriot Hundred for which interim certificates were issued by the District Land officer on the 11th inst., resolved that the Provincial Solicitor sh uld bo asked to move Judge Johnston to deliver his judgment re attachment of certain members of the Waste Lunds Board. Mr Mov.t replied : “i have asked tho Registrar >o telegraph, and he has done so, asking the judgment to be delivered. is Honor was waiting until he saw the judgment of Mr Jus* ice Williams in the mjuncti n. This having now be u given, and the in j auction dissolved, I presume i. will not be long until the matter of tho attachment is disposed ot, I might, how- ver, point out that the judgment in the attachment is one not for t..e B >ard, hut entirely tor the members of it mentioned m th.i rule Tne judgment tha • tally concerns the Hoard iu dealing with tho lands in tho Bundled has been delivered when the inj notions were disso ved.”