WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3984, 1 December 1875, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

■ b ' weOc'y ir.ee.tingcf thn Board was held this day ; (ir«S(.u.■ ■Mu-., is .Strode (in the j chair), Bulterwo. i hj ami Cla.k. Mr (■;. "only a piu'ifor two years’ prolection for a road leading to his coal pit on section 4, Kawarau, and stated to have been formed by himself at great < xiiense. License to be graute.o to applicant for the pt.ee of land co!.!prising the road at a rental or 10s per annum, for per.od requested (two years). Mi .j. !S. -v ebb, for Vir W B. Cairns, ap plied for an rbcrati.ii >m the terms oi the j lease ot the coa! ar< a on K.-wrow run, in the j event of his taking ~n as iginneiir of it from j Messrs Barrett anßur;.>U, tiie present j lessees, who w s to throw it up iSul jeet to j ba 1 rett and Bo nett av'ijni g the lea>c to i ( aims, r- nt lob? rod reed to 5 |ior annum, j .- nd the ma.vitmiai r tv chatg-d for coal in* j creased to 15s er ton. Mr James Tanwah 1 ! wrote his previously lodged applicu’ion (or t e purchase of twenty-livo or lily acres at the River tyx apj.leant tn e '.equorted to c ittse a -urvey to (>e mad, oi tin (if y acres applied for, and cons, ut of (he ru-.,bolder to lu; obtai cd, ' (n r. (pie t wih fi- eonsi* d.-rel by the Hvu.i The Clyde Don e La; i ffi<;.,-r '(.‘poned on Mr D. U nv, i ’ ..ppbc .i-«n i j- a. d numbered sccli- u 12, b a cU 1 i cam t. tieferr. d to i rov.ncia .'vlio tor n qaoi u an Opinuni as (o • bluer r,i.. i.uri in qu s ion was open fur .g icu'-. ur il c-.s- alien 11. imeAs appl;c»ti< n waa iod;,;cd. ~,.r i.. G. Ciaugh I mure-- for t..c a, of Cioun lands in i" e ncri a aunt, u.iu.er* auia. i aini. bp Bib. and o, „ „n,l S, u th Glenkerich Mun-W;. at t!r-n.f.,.; r -hs per ent coinuusii. n. ho uiu rots iwi cd bring meud.d in other uuot niiei.r oiatrio's the ooard cannot at present uteiirre The board suggest that another dis rict bo termed Consisting of Tapanui and W'aikaia. In the meantime land m Tapanui is to be i ;ld by auction at • a. .amn Mr W. H. .Huberts ‘shed that tin i-lao of h'B deferred payment livenso tor m*c''oli47, block 7, Waipahre, may he so altered as to embrace part cf .section 71 b,of section b9. Applicant also stated that Oir auvoyor in surveying the township of M aip, hee intends altenog the peg oi ttti. 10 U 5, block

4, against which hj.) prof os Is. The Board, under the circumstances, declined to interfere. Mr R. Ferguson applied to purchase laud held by him under agricultural leases ,S23b and 335 a. Purchase to be allowed, provided rent, is paid up to date of first application to purchase. The Government it commended the appointment i,f Ranger Hughanaa b.-spetor for the Switzers commonage. Agreed to, Mr E Burrows applied for a,license under c ause 91 of the Act to occupy 5 aero behind section 25, block 6, Mid-Wakatipu, for hmebur ing purposes. Referred to District Land Officer for report. *he District Engineer sent a tracing of land in Havelock township, part of section 1, block 25. requiied for railway purposes. Noted, and referred to survey apartment. Applications to purchase at Ll per ac : e ; —W. S. Graham and H. Walton, ten acres at the junction of Frazer’s and Hawksburn creeks, Bannockburn, being pre-emptive on run 339 (agreed to—sale sanctioned); also forty acres at Hawksburn Valh-y o ■ the same run, in exercise of pre-emptive right (sanctioned, subject to survey regulations). The Invercargill D. L. 0. wrote with reference to the non-execution of deferred payment licenses forwarded to him. D, L. O. to be asked whether notice has been sent to the various persons referred to in terms of the Act. . Mr Ostin asked whether a pre-emptive right cm be altered to another place after survey. Recommended that the application should be re ewod in proper term. Mr R. Gillies, for Mr Wibiara Rait, applied to purchase quarry reserve, section 16, block 2, WaiLola, two acres and a half Referred to the banger for report. Messrs Connell and Moodio, for Mr E Murphy, aski d whether the Superintendent's c nscntb.vt been obtained to the extension of the lease of the Gin ha sand-spit, Mr D. Keid having returned from Wellington. Matter found to have been already decided.