WESTLAND WASTE LANDS ROARD;

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1544, 17 July 1873, Page 2

WESTLAND WASTE LANDS ROARD;

A meeting of the- -Westland Waste ,Board, was held{ ; at sHpkitikaidn T|uesday, when there were present; the . w , Chief Commissioner (G. G. FifczGeraldj Esq.),^Messra^HobsV SmitH, 1 Evanki J ana Pjatten. The following! letters were ? read : M-From Mr Greenwood asking to pnr- ~ chase 1000. acres of land for the'hatiyes up the Arahura; from the- Gas Company,, asking to purchase" flections ; 8V? and 5i8 ! ; T frbm A.Scott; to purchase ''sectibn 504; J frpm the Warden at Gree'hstohe'; and J. Williams, applying to purchase one acre f f sl frpmv.miners r at'the Blue 1 - Spur|; oppbs-- 1^ ing an agricultural .lease,; frbm^John"/" Cardjiasking r What I'land' ca r n : be' t^ken np, ; a-(a run. The ! r first'letter fyaa F fflf<mniut'*' til Thursday; the lease at the Blue Spur was recommended; ' ! The' other letters wejre informal I.'1 .' '-Mr Dairy mple applied for certain land to be thrown open at the Hau Hau, -but' the' Bo'aVd 1 dteclihea to fe-' -co nmend .the<applicati»n f at present. J The Hdkitika Gas Company purchased sections, n ■m\;^mi mpfi? Ll2; ii^ iS r f 1 Llß ! *'6spectiyelyi;' jOn'%e' 'applicatipn.;of , . -Mi • O weriWan 1 acre* of l^hd 1 was s^^slo(e W ,:, ! a sfchopl reserveat Stafford. ; D^'j^alSnepeV ' pu ■ch;asedj v a j . .septan .;^ ai [ ■ J. Eamilton arid CoiTboughtthe following^io' ' section s^iti.Marsden,. No. 1 6/,?L4<i3s' 6d ; 10, WJsMJMXIX 12s ; 68,_L12.55...-. Od th^-a-pppcatioh "of Mr Scott, for the Gas Company, it was resolved that reserve 501 be recommended for sale. Thefol- — ■ lowing reserves, as payment. for. public- r works in the ( Grey;diatrictvwer'e agreed to^ I — Charles Clark, 324 acres ; John Allen, ~* 100 acres';riEdward 54T ; acres ; :i< John Maher, 90 acres; ; Hamilton and Co. purchased sections 16)aud,17,, Marsden, for L 35 J arid' 1i27 respectively. Mr Barnhill's deposit on ..the above was ordered to be forfeited. Reserves for the Wesleyan „a nd;: , .Episcopal/,Churches, at ) , KanieA, were made. J. , M. Barham purr; ■-. n ."' chaped section 566,. Hokitika ; lil2 paid s F; A. liearmpnth, 70,80:63, in ; the Greyr/r district rL7o paid.; : .In, TCplyj. to Q, F. ! /j, Hawkins,, v as,- to ;claimwg! -imprpyemehtiTll h on reserve 456, the Boards informed him that they ri would; shortly, make all arrange-;^ meAts; for t sale, of reserves and. improve- li ;;i ments effected. iChwk^ptirchased' 1 !i> 350|acres hear liake ßrunner ; 'L3so paid? ; r In J reply ;nto ; an '"application ''frpm' HKx n; ; ' ! iO^Toole, to purchase 1 a sectibn 1 neai^he briige,, at_Goldsboroughy for Hibermair" ' Society's HaU, the r ßparcL stated.that the Chief Surveyor would survey that place .Bhortly, and, in the meantime, ap. pUcantwas recommended noi; to '^roc^ed >| ', jwith improvements.. . The, , Board , .then adjourned tili-Tfiursdayneit^' 11 ' " :i