WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4042, 9 February 1876, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

At to-day’s meeting there were present—The Chief Commissioner, Messrs Keid, Bastings, Butter worth, and Strode; and the Wowing was the principal business transacted:— The Board decided that John Bitches and H. W, Patterson should pay the p ice in .accordance with Jud *e Wi hams’s decision f.r lands held by them und**r deferred dayment, Mr 1?. W. Aitkeo asktd leave to surrender his pre-emptive right of 454 acres on run 172 a, and to apply for the same area on the western boundary, fronting Lillbuin. It was minuted that the Board hat! no objection to the change, provided it could be-done in the department. The expense to be borne by the applicant. Messrs Gillies, Strait, and Hislop, as agents for B. Hamkin»oa, applied for a seven years’ lease of a small island of six acres on Lake Wanaka, about two miles from Pembroke. Licens * undr r the 161st clause at LI a yerr to be granted. Mr A. Pirie was informed that the Board had no power to leas a with right to purchase section 2ila, b’oek 4, Papabaio. Mr James Henderson, for himself and others, requested information as t > when the inns sunated between the Taieri Eiver and the East Coast would expire, and suggested that the runs on being released should be sold by auction, subdivided into areas of 5,000 acres each. It was minuted that a list of runs could be seen in the Land Office; and that the writer’s suggestions would be considered when the rims were beiog dealt with. In accordance with the request of the District Land Officer at Clyde, the Board confirmed the date fixed for the sale of the sections in Spottis Hnnd e», viz,, the 24th inst., and appointed the District Land Offic.r or his a sistaot to act as auctioneer. The following applications to purchase at LI per acre were approvedlsaiah' Nrel, section 31, block 6, Tuapeka West ; Samuel Hales, section 11, block 13, and 53, block 18. Tuapeka East; Pobert Ferguson, section 42, block 4, Table Hill. The application of Daniel Heenan to purchase section 41, block 1, Maangatua, was refused. In connection with the kst-mentioned application it was decided to offer by auction the right to graze upon the same terms as at Chakra; timber rights being reserved.

Mi* Job Wain applied to purchase, at LI per acre, section 2, block 7, on the Peninsula (the sand hills). —'1 he Chief Commissioner; W© must refuss this application. These sand bil’s are Invaluable to the citizens of Xiunedia, and it is strange they have not been propei ly reserved. —Mr Reid: They have been reserved as far as they can be, unless reserved for some specific purpose —The Crdef Commissioner : There is always a danger of the Waste Land Board selling them —v r Reid: That cannot be done without the Superintendent’s consent. —The application was refused* Tee Dis'nct Land Officer at Invercargill rep rtsd that notices to Messrs Andrew Riddell and Wm. Sounne s that their defeired pay* meat licenses were rea-iy for issue, were sent on December 6. The licenses were ordered to be cancelled. ->

Smith. And-rion, and Co., as agents for the N.Z, and A.L. Co., applied for a coal lease on No. _ 23, for twenty acres over which permi sion has been given to mine for their own use. Postponed for further conside a’ion. The report of the district engineer on the applied on of t enry Logan for a ten years’ lease of- section 91, hi ck- 7, North Harbour and Blueskin, hav ng been read, it was resolved not to grant the application. A communication was read from Mr S. E. Shrimski, of Oamaru, stating that he d« es m t intend to take out an auctioneer’s license for the present year, arid offering to conduct Crown land sales as formerly, if he can do so w'thout license under the 32nd clause of the Act. Mr Harris appear- d for 1 .aurence Flynn, and stated reasons xvhy his deferred payment lease should not be candled. The matter was postponed, the re-sale not to go cn in the meantime.

Under the sixth clause of “ The Land Board Appeal Act, 1867,’-, Mr Justice Williams an wered as follows the questions that had been put to hun. (1.) Whether a person who lias occupied land for three years under a lease granted under “ The Gold(i aids Act, I860,” and has complied with all the conditions of the lease is in the same position as to rights of purchase, Ac., as a person who has occupied land for three years under a license-ou deferred payments under the Otago Waste Lauds Act, 1872 ? —(A.) No. 2. What amount of purchase money the deferred payment lessee must pay—2:s or 17s Cd, or what sum ?—A, 17s 6d.

3. Whether the lease must be for seven or ten years, or for what term?—A. Seven year's.

In forwarding the opinion, Mr Stoat wrote : “Of course all exchange leases s'nee the pass' ing of the Otago Was'e Land Act, 1875, mu t be subject to the provisions.