WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3978, 24 November 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Board was held this day ; present— Messrs Bastings, Butterworth, Clark, Reid, and Strode (in the chair).

Messrs Brown and Garden asked a reduction in the rent of their lease 80, as compensation for the interruption of work by the Government’s constructing a railway. The Board decided that they were unable to entertain the application. Banger Bolton’s tele, ram, asking if men taking stone for «-overnment buildings should pay license fee, was re-considererl. i> o further action to be takeu in the matter. The Lawrence District Land Officer forwarded Mr R. CoghiU’s application to purchase la. and 13p. in Havelock township, cultivated by the latter as a garden, estimating the improvements ss worth '.47 Survey to be made; land then to be sold by auction with valuation for improvements added ; upset price to be fixed after survey. Mr R. Bushe, for the Waitahuna Depasturing Board, asked for authority to impound all cattle and sheep above six months of age trespassing on the Waitahuna goldfields commonage. The Board offered no objection to such being done. Applications to purchase land under agricultural lease Mr A. M'Laren, section 76, block 2, Table Hill (approved); Mr H. Campbell, sections 1 and 2, block 3, Lower Wanaka (approved); Mr J. Martin, sections 77 and 85, block 2, Table Hill (approved) ; Mr J. A. Duthie, section S3, block 2, Table Hill (approved). Mr H. M‘Coy, for Messrs Cotton and Henry, asked for the transfer of deferred payment leases 61, 52, and 53, from them to Mr R. Cotton. Ihe Board have no power; see section 7 of the Waste Land Act Amendment Act, 1875,

Applications to purchase at 20s per acre : Mr G. Matheson, section 89, block 5, Tuapeka East (approved) ; Mr J. Sutherland, s- C'ion 49, block 10, Waitahuna East (declined, being part of a reserve for a commonage for the township of Havelock). Messrs Strode and Fraser applied for agricultural lease over 640 acres, being pre-emp-tive right en run 335b [Mr Strode retired while the application was considered, and Mr Clark took the chair ] It appeared that some residents in the neighborhood had lodged objections to the application, but these were found to be trivial, and the Board granted the lease. Some of the residents at Fullarton’s and Hyde wrote asking the Board to prevent Mr T. Laverty from fencing in the portion of the main road line running through his laud, situated in block 7, Rock and Pillar. An intimation to be sent to Mr Laverty that he has no right to fence in a road line, but is thereby committing an illegal act. Mr Hugh Groasau applied to purchase sections 58 and 59, (fairu Hill. The matter to be adjusted in terms of the Warden’s recommendation . Mr J. Sillars applied to purchase under agricultural lease section 23, block 3, H eager. Approved. '! he 1 overnment recommended the Board to offer Ciown lands fur sale by auction as pee list forwarded, with valuations for improvi meufc added. Approved.

Tim Chief Oonimbtiioncr molested the. Hoard to declare deferred payment lit, moos 712, 713, 727, and 728 void, the applicants Lacing refused or neglected to execute them iu ,eims of notice served. The D. L. O. to report as regards Mr W, ( (Ijcef’.s application ; the remainder were declared void.