WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4002, 22 December 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

pi;! weekly meeting of the Board was held this day ; presenthe i :hiof Commissioner Messrs Butterwoith, Clark, Beid, and Strode. Mr H Logan applied for a ten yean’ lease of section 91. bio.-k 7, North East Harbor and Blucskm. Referred to the Load Engineer. ° Banger Hnghan reported on Mr W. Bait’s application to purchase quarry reserve, part of section Ifi, block 2, Wjvhoia, To be sold as laud of special value ; u set price, I S! per acre. Ihs Clyde 1 *. 1.. 0. lorwarded for renewal air J. Lorr’s coal-mining licsnEO on section 11, blocks, Tcviot. To he renewed, . Lall^ applied for a ica:i-; of an is an-1 in the Waikaia River, adjoining his property, sections G and 7, block I, Wendon. B-A used. The Warden at tbo Arrow forwarded a petition Com W. Helton, and letters from tvvn.ns and M. Iloulehan, with the ro quest that Banger M Moran he instructed ]»ot to take further pro .codings re thoir »' egal occupation of Crown lands under "t“” “4. “•« «™I» MO <* too lonmow “ allm '’ tb ' lo w *“ a ft,D

Mr ft. Turnbull applied to pu'duvo two aor. a of bind adjoining the township uf Naseby, for the erection of a produce store and the cultivation of tin- land. Referred to the District Land Offimr for his advice. 7ho Board reconsidered Mr R. Johnston’s application to purchase five acres on run 227, now numbered section 1, block 6, Blackstone, and also ihe District Land Officer's rop rt thereon. Purchase sanctioned at 20s per acre.

Mr M. flay wrote that several had asked him when the sale of Heriot Hundred wid take place, and ho offmed to conduct tho auction sales at Tapanui and Waikaia as hitli or to. Read. The Board considered the Lawrence District Land Officer’s advice as to tbo reservations for tailings, etc., in Grown grants of sections 15, 8, 6, and 23, block 7, Waitabuna East. Referred to the Provincial Solicitor.

Applications to purchase land at 20s per acre:—Mr J. Chalmers, section 90, block 5, Tuapeka East (referred to the Railway Engineer); John Hogg, sections 72, block 3, and G3, block 6, Tuapeka West (refused), Air John Elder applied to purchase,under agricultural lease, section 20, block 1, Benger. Approved,