WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4258, 19 October 1876, Page 4

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting .of the Board was held Monday,; present -Messrs Strode (in’ the chair), Bastings, Butterworth, and Clarke. ,-he Immigration Officer, Dunedin, asked Jbhn Board to reconsider the scatter of immigrants being'.allowed to''select town lands .under the Immigrants Land Act of 1873. It appeared that.the inlm : grants are at p<eseut allowed to Selecfonly rural land, ana a certain 4riimb£r.of recent arrivals wishing to purchase sections at the approaching sale at Craigleith were desirous of exchanging their scrip for rural lav ds to t ! at for town sections, ,rhe. Board was in favor .of. allowing* .such to be done if possible, and the Provincial Solicitor’s opinion is; to be obtained at once on the matter. Oh receipt of his advice the chaiijnan to act. , , Government; recommended that parts of blocks 2 and 12, West District, and *J, Beaumont, recently surveyed, be open for application. Approved. ' As suggested by the, Mayor, the Government recommended that section' 59, block 32, Dunedin, hitherto temporarily reserved, be offered for sale. ’ Approved. Banger Hnghan reported on Mr W. Ecid’s application to purchase section 15, block 37, iTokqniairiro. To be sold by auction as land of special value, baying’ been withheld from sale for a considerable period; price Mr L. Matthewson, occupier of sections 10, Hi, and 12, block 3, Hyde, asked valuation oh them at the hale to the amount of LSO, for house and other improvements put on the said land by him, deferred to the District Land Officer for advice. Ranger Hnghan reported on the request of Messrs Forbes • awson and William Dawson for a lease of their allotments under secc tipn 54, sub-section 6, of the Act. Applicants to be ihforrne I that under the Special circumstances two months will be allowed them to comply with the conditions as to fencing, <Vc. If not complied with, the land to be forfeited. The secretary to the Switzers Mining and Progress -Committee sent, a petition by Charles; Striever and others that block 9, Ghatton, and block 5, Glenkenicb, be reserved from sale.on account of the auriferous nature of the laud. To be withdrawn from sale Under section 3 of the Act of 1874, with the consent bf the Superintendent. Mr L. 0. Holmes, for Messrs J. Williams, J. I'ocherty.'uhd J. Honeycburch, applied to . purchase the. Vacant Cipwn 'lands Between their respective sections in block 44i, Lawrence, mid the Beaumont said space having been m»de by alteration in the recent survey of that,road. 'J he land to bo sold by auction in the usual way if desired byapplicanta.