WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1103, 9 February 1872, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

f ■■ +— ■ •■ : 1 A sitting of the Waste Lands Board 1 was held on Tuesday at the Land Office, ', Hokitika. [ The following letters were read : — ! From the Greymonth Jockey Club, ' thanking the Board for the resolution ■ passed for lifting reserve No. 34, to be i regazetted and vested in the Jockey Club [ as a recreation ground. i From Colman Hynes, a miner at Lagoon > Lead, drawing the attention of the Board ' to the fact that, the pasturage license ■ issued to Messrs Hill and Hampdnu, in--1 terferes with the free access which Hynes and other miners have for five years en- • joyed to some of the land for the purpose [ of grazing their cattle, and Mr Hynes requested the Board to inquire into the matter. [ From Mr Travers, stating* that itap--3 pears to him that the Governor can make i a reserve for a racecourse, but that it 1 cannot be vested in any Jockey Club > which is n<?t a corporate body. He con- ■ ceived, however, that the Governor could, i by order in Council, delegate tho carrying • out of any regulations framed for the purJ poses of the reserve, to the committee of \ the Jockey Club. ! From Mr Warden Revell stating that [ in company with Mr Brown, the district j mining surveyor, he had visited the gold i workings on reserves Nos. 24 and 49, and i did not consider that the injuries ' to the I reserves are so serious as he had at first [ supposed. There was no necessity, therei fore, for the immediate removal of the ' parties now working, but he had informed ; them that on receipt of notice from the Commissioner of Crown Lands they would 1 have to leave. ' v From the Chief; Surveyor, stating that , he had again examined the land applied \ for by Kearns. He had seen Wright (the .man who so strenuously opposed ths application of Kearns) and he refused to accompany him (the Chief Surveyor) to prove the correction of his (Wright's) assertions that the land applied for by Kearns is auriferous. He (the Chief Surveyor) then went in search of the other • miners who had joined with Wright in i the opposition to Kearn's application. . Amongst them he found a man named Wilson, who had been at work in that locality for the last three years, and a man named Wright, a brother of the Wright . before mentioned. Together they visited , the land in question, and it then transpired that the ground where prospects could begot was situated near the Horseshoe Head, between the Railway Reserve, and the beach, andt mere than 200 yards from the west boundary of block 71. The Chief Surveyor added that the miners had evidently been. misinformed as to the locality of the land ' thrown open for sale, and they expressed themselves to that effect, and furthermore stated that they had not the slightest objection to the sale of the land in block 71, being satisfied . now that the land does not comprise any of the auriferous ground. From the Greymouth Town Clerk, requesting the Board to recommend the Government to reserve that parcel of land within the town of Greymouth, colored pink upon the tracing accompanying the letter, and grant the same as an endowment to the Borough of .Greymouth for Municipal purposes.; From Mr Warden Revell, forwarding two applications for agricultural leases. Patrick Kearns applied, through his agent, Mr Learmoiitn, to purchase 20 acres of rural land in Block 71, Grey district. Granted, L2oi paid. William James Cpates applied to purchase 26 acres of rural land in Block 1, Grey district. Granted, L 26 paid. W. C. Roberts applied to purchase two loJis, of 20 acres each, of rural land in Block %, Grey district. Granted, L4O paid. l William Fairhall<3Qmpleta.d the purchase of sections bought atauction on the previous day, comprising 1 six of a total area of 62 acres in Block 76. Grey district. LI 04 paid. •■ ■""-■■• ' ■'— ". T. W, Bmco applied, through his agent,

Mr ; Learrapnth, iov the; recommendation of the Board in respect, to his application for 2500 acres of land, near Lakeßrunrier, under special circumstances. v- ; The Board approved of the recommendation of the County Council, and ordered that the necessary steps be taken to enable the applicant to purchase the land at 10s per acre. 'On the application of the Rev. Father Chareyere, the Board decided to rescind the resolution passed on the 19th December, in reference to a. reserve at Ross for the use of the Catholic Church, and in lieu thereof made a reserve of two acres one rood on the south side of Moorhouse road, between Frazer street and Hoos street. James Nicholas presented a petition from a large number of miners at the Greenstone, against the issuing of a Crown grant to Cheffings and Whitten, for land near Greenstone. The consideration of the petition was deferred until the next sitting of the Board. The consideration of the letter from the Borough Council of Greymouth. respecting an endowment of land, was deferred until the next sitting of the Board. A block of land between the fortyeighth and forty-ninth mile posts, Christchurch road, was ordered to be thrown open for sale. The sitting then terminated.