NELSON WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 197, 29 July 1881, Page 3

NELSON WASTE LANDS BOARD.

The Board met yesterday. — Present • Commissioners Barnicoat, Bird, Kerr, Sharp Waatcey, and Chief Commissioner Greenfield. Pkospectuto Licenses.— A. D. Bayfeild'a applications for 1000 acres and 640 acres, i^eefton District, were further considered together with the Warden's report thereon. Resolved, That licensee be granted for six months from the Ist August next subject to the following conditions :-(l) That existing rights or privileges (if any) shall not be interfered with. (2) That the licensee shall not prevent the holders of Miner's Rights from prospecting for gold or from obtaining a gold mining lease or taking up ordinary Claims within the boundary of the licenses. The undermentioned licenses were renewed tor six months, subject to prior rights (if any) viz.:— T. R. Hacketj License No. 115, Aniseed Valley. T. It. Hacket, License No. 90, Croixelles. . Hacket and Roberts, License No. 98, Wairoa T. R. Hackett, License No. 101, Maungatapu. Hacket and Roberts, License No. 56, Ani- ? seed Valley. An application from Mr Thomas Mackay for a lease of 500 acres of the Harbour Regerve adjoining the Drumduan property was postponed for further enquiry. Land held under Lease assessed for Sale.— Section 36, Square 5, 10s per acre ; Section 104, Ngatimoti, 10s per acre; Sections 8 to 10, Ohika Survey District, lSs per acre. Land assessed fob Leasing xjndee Land Act, 1877, Section 75:— _ per acre Sec. 21, 22, 25 , Block II Reef ton 25a ** V „ 25s -■'- 72 and 77 X „ 25s 76 I Wai-iti 10s 82 IV Mawheranui 30s 75 and 77 IV „ 30s 73 IV „ 30s " 33 IV „ 30s TJndbb 51st Section. 1 I Mount Arthur 5s 20 I Wai-iti 5s Undee Land Act 1877— Appendix E. - ' 5 ■ 111 Alma 15s 8 VII Aorere 15s 9 and 10 XII Tadmor 10a 1 and 2 HI „ 10s 1 IV Baton 10a 6 VUlWaDgapeka lOs 1 VII Baton Ida 15 XVI Wangapeka 10s ; fi 111 Baton 10g 16 XV 1 Wangapeka ios 14 XXI „ lOs 3 VI Baton io a 23 VH River Clarke 10a 17 XVI Wangapeka ids " ■"■■ ™ ;; t 4 and 5 VIII ,',' }J 19 VI River Clarke ios a ,- *. VIII WaH g a peka 10s Applications 2229 and 2232 were conBidered together with Mr Drummond'a letter objecting toMrHiekey's application Resolved, That Mr Drommond is entitled to s lease of the land within the boundaries given in his application which includes Section 7 Block VIII, Wangapeka, and that a. lease of that Section be refused to Mr Hickey. -■ Reeolved, That the Board approve and consent to the issue of the undermentioned gold mining leases by the Governor's Delegate: — TM D v™ e6ory aDd C - Gordon i Section 30, S&. w »itakere district ; the Confidence «olo>Mininjc Company, Section 6, Block X Mount Arthur 5 R. C. Parker and others! Section 4, Bio.k X, Mount Arthur. , . MINERAL LEASE AORERE. A memo was received from the Under Secretary for. Crown Lands enclosing extracts from Warden's (Collingwood) annual report and the Chief Commissioner's reply thereto! A telegram was received from the County Chairman* Inangahua, objecting to the lease applied lor;by Alexander Duncan, and the Keenee applied for by Duncan Brothers Devery's Terrace, the ground being required for travelling stock and commonage. Postponed for further inquiry.