WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4299, 6 December 1876, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Board was held this morning ; present—Messrs Strode, Butterworth, Clarke, and Reid. Messrs Gillies, Street, and Hislop applied to lease part of reserve, block 10, Lower Kaikorai, the bush being cut off it. Ranger Valpy recommended that it be cut up into sections and sold as land of special value. Reserve to be declared accordingly. Mr Archibald M‘Coll applied for a lease of a small piece of land at OtaL- aia, for grazing purposes. To await Ranger Valpy’s report. Mr William Fenwick applied to exorcise pre-emptive right over run 217 a, less fifty acres already purchased. Refused in the meantime. Mr W. Mee applied through Messrs Howarth and Hodgkins to purchase sections 17, 18, 19, and 20, block 2, Blackstone, and to have exchange lease cancelled, the same being applied for in error. Agreed to. Mr Gillies applied for a rehearing of the petition of Brighton settlers as to the Coast Guard Reserve. License not to be renewed. The opinion of the Provincial Solicitor was read as to dealing with Run No. 20 at expiration of lease. R otice to be given to lessee in terms of section 145 of the A ct. The run not to be again let for pastoral purposes at the expiration ot the present lease. Mr Nicholas Moro applied for a seven years’ lease of the remaining 35 acres of section 17, block 6, Chatton, for grazing purposes. Right to be sold by auction; upset price Is per acre. The Queenstown District Land Officer estimated improvements by Mr M. J. Malaghan on section 29, block 7, at L 350, and recommended the upset price of the section to be L 5. Approved. On the recommendation of the same officer quarry licenses at L 3 3s each were issued to Michael Griffen, for section 9, block 5; L. W. M ‘Donald, section 20; M. O’Brien, section 11; and E, M. Caffrey, section 12, block 5, Mid-Wakatip. Ranger Hughan reported on Mr James Logan’s applications to purchase the east part of section 7, block 9, Chatton; and to purchase or lease section 14, block 9, Chatton, and 26, block 1, Glenkenich, temporarily reserved for coal. Ten acres of section 7 to be reserved; remainder, with section 26, block 1, Glenkenich, to be sold as land of special value at the upset price of L 3 per acre. Grazing right over section 14, Chatton, to be also sold by auction ; upset price 2s per acre. Messrs W. Desk’s and J. Wallace’s respective applications for quarry licenses over part of section 48, block 3, Oamarn, were reconsidered. Wallace’s was declined, and he is to be requested to make his application in one lot. The Chief Surveyor suggested that sections 42, 43, 45, 47, 51, and 55 are the most suitable lands in block 10, Glenkenich, to be set aside for settlement on deferred payment. Approved; January 24, 1877, being fixed upon as the day on which they will be open for application. The Chief Surveyor reported that the following lands were most suitable for new Hundreds29,ooo acres at Waikaka and 11,000 acres at Tuapeka. The Governor to be recommended to proclaim the lands accordingly; the Chief Surveyor to be requested to furnish plans, &c., for transmission to the Governor, and to proceed with the surveys.