WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 49, 26 January 1884, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

A meeting of the Wellington Waste Lands Board was held on Thursday, Messrs J. G4^yHoldsw«rth (chairman and coruraiisiouer), H. Bunny, T Mason, and W. W. Taylor .being present. The schedule submitted^howed J that 227a Or lOp had been disposed for £346. 75, the cash payments amounting, to 487 ts 3d; :Qf the abpye^ 184a 5r £2p were: sold oa ; de£erre,dt|»yment for £277 17s 6d, deposits of £13 17s lid being paid, A letter was read from Mr R. V. Smith, addressed to Mr to the best " portijori of "the Pahiatua block haying" been sold to one purchaser, who had since mado arrangements for buying up gome of the deferred paymenlsections surrounding bis freoholdi It Was pointed out to Mr Smith, who was present, that so long as deferred-payment selectors carried but the conditions of their licenses they could, at the expiration , of the term fixed by law, obtain the freehold ;.of their sections, and the board would see the conditions faith fu My carried out. The Chairman reported one or' two deferred-payment . selectors to bo m arrears, and it was .resolved to warn them that unless overdue instalments „ were paid iwjthin rtwo T months the '\ licenses wojild be* cancelled. TThe .Chair;r r; ■ j man reported that John JTopwood, selector of section 21, Block XI, Mangaone, waa m, arrear with, his payment^ and the Board resolved to inform the occupior thut.unless his two instalment! were paid within a., couplo^of months his land would; be forfeited. This con/cluded«tho.busines3. r j „., :