WASTE LAND BOARD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 317, 26 March 1875, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

; Thursday, Marc# 18. ( ~ TEfE CATHOLIC. CHAPEL AT O.PHItt. •■>■ Alr.«P#(fer**-HiiVrington wrote informing' •theVlioa&Hfiat? g&Tiorf 11: Hlinck T.,-Ojjhiir;v ■on'wh'icji is erected Was soli without Valuation being r al}b\Yed.' ' From remarks made- l»y the members of the Board, it.appeared ihat the section hall a valuation of £lso= attached 'to it some time ago for the chape! ; but, owing to a chunge"having taken place there in regard to the .Receiver of Land I'evenue, the valuation was lost sight of on the day ofsale/Hvhich was conducted in a very hasty result of which was that the Cathbife€ommittee had not,time to bid for the* section. When the maps were produced-it transpired that the chapel was not 'actually on the section; 'but" on the public road. The committee, however, Jt ; \vas: stated, had* in .accordance with, some former understanding,: the right to remove-the chapel on to the sectiora-

Chiefi Commissioner, having adverted to. tlie_sale of the reserves at Keidston. to the present case, and to that of the Taieri linil-shed, which, said, though wortti 4400, >vas .nearly sold, for £4', said thatV>H was - full time that ano-ther-systeirP'should be'intro'duced in refer-' ■?qce to the sale- of town sections.- The" Board should ...have an officer present at such sales watch.ng the proceedings. This 'was tlie case formerly, and during'• jthetinie it wa!s ' followed a single instance -ot ■applications' like the 'present never arose, • 1 lie ; Board' sitting in - Difnedin : did not -know-what, whs going on. He intended; before the sale of town lands place, to submjt certain resolutions to the Boa!rd, Jiavii'ig.fiir their, object the remedy.--i» >got f I, to \yl.)ic-Ii "he" was, referring. considered' the CatHpjics^, ; hi>4. themselves Yd blatiie,. asthe site neiVf pufclVased 'it." * ____ ' "It was vi??olyed that as ( the building wiis'not 'on the sebtioir, but onfthe -public ; roadj-the applicants l>e recommended to. remove -it,■ and apply'for another section in Cccordarice-with the regulations. """ ;; NASEBT. " . The District Land Officer, Xas£by,for T warded the application.of. Air.,G E. Sewmarch to purchase his residence area, cons'stingriOLone acre.; at. Naseby —-To ''be ; put .up by auct on at the usual-price: -*NASi,BY!i 1)E EE . DELL, AND HYDE. - Letters from,-Mr. WardevTKobmson and Mr Laverty \vei;e.read,' rnferring to-the Connolly as Ranger'for .the, above blocks. .The- letter complained thnt, as \\liV Connolly was Bailiff oi the Warden's. Court,.-he was monopolising Government offices. The Board resolved that the present arrangements : should be adhered to, -anil that the -Hangers lor the northern di -tricis should occasionally visit these blocks.