OTAGO LAND BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17685, 24 July 1919, Page 9

OTAGO LAND BOARD

( An ordinary meeting of the Otafto Lund ■Botrfd was hold yesterday-; present—Messrs K. fciadd iConuiiiixiioiii' of (Jrown Lands), James ijinitli, T. A. Muuro, (j. Livingstono, and O. J. Inder. TBANSMiBS. Tbo following applications for transfers were approved:— ltun <£45 J, iilackstane (160 acres 3 roods 20 poles), sections 45, 47, 64, and 80, block 1; Biaokatone (232 acros 1 rood 19 polos), sections 30 and 31, block I; lilackstone 1<229 aores 2 roods 9 polos); and section 63, block 1, Blackstone (11 aores 2 roods, It.Han. Carries Brown to Air 'J. nomas Uillespie; soptiona 12 and 26, «i anotiold Settlement, 6 a/jres 3 roods 11 poles, Mr Ernest -barrel! iSmall lo Marina Brand; ruii otM, Benmoro, £692 acred, Mr George Howard Moore to Mr Jobn Anderson; section 32, block Yll, Tokiu-ahi, 291 acres 1 rood a( poles, Mr George Loahlan Grant to Mr Wm. Marshall Don; section 26, 'l'eaneraki V.S., 20 acres, Rachel Martha Miller to Air Jamca .French Rowland; ieotion 3&v, Windson Park Settlement, 15 acges, and section 31, Teaneraki, 25 acres 0 roods 4 poles, Mr James Miller to Mir James Rowland; scction 82, block VI, North Harbour and Blueskin, 10 a/irea 2 roods 27 jjoios, Air Henry Kenton to Martha Aiuiio JtJox; part section 9, block X, Inch Clutha, 38 acres, Mr Ales. Barron to Air Walter W. Gngor; soction 12, block XIII, Greenvale, 226 acres 0 roods 8 poles, and runs 212f, J2I2G, 212e, 4141 aores, Lucy M'Veigh to Mr Robert Watson Coubrough; area in block VH, i'arras, 65 aores, Mr Charles Olaf Markhlnd to Thos. Cherton M'Kay; section 112, Ardgowan Estato, 172 acres 3 roods 25 poles, Mr George Fitzsiinmons to Mr David Herd; sections 18, 24, block H, Gatlins, 321 acres 2 roods, 36 poles, Mr Thomas Cook to Mr Thos. J. Cook; section 23, block I, and sections 28 and 29, blook VI, Akatore, 294 acres, Air Wilfred Maude Roxby to Mr Geo. Edmund Woodhead.

The following transfers were dealt with a3 underSection 27, blook I, Upper Wakatipu, 47 acres 2 roods, 27 poles, Mr Huntly Grooves to Air J. Oronirt.—Held over for ranger's report. Section 23, blook VIH, Catlins, 125 aores 3 roods, 4 poles, Catherine O. Roulston to Air Albert E. Brough.—Held over. Sections 34-36, block 1, Upper Wakatipu, 155 aores 1 rood 35 poles, Bridget Elizabeth CConnoll to Beatrice Cronin. — Held over for ranger's report. Sections 28-31, block I, Upper Wakatipu, 200 acres 3 roods 32 poles, Beatrice Cronin to Bridget E. O'ConnelL—Held over for ranger's report. Sections 36514, 36516, 36517, block VIH, Wilkin, 313 acres 0 roods 34 poles, Mr Alexander Humphrey to Mr Rectus J. Dunning.—Declined, as a person holding a povfer of attorney cannot make -a declaration under the Land Act. GENBTtAL. Mary Adams applied for about one acre, being section 35, block IV, Tautuku S.D., under section 129 of The Land ; . Act.—To be advertised and survey fee deposited. ~ _Mr John Brooks applied for an extension of time to cut flax on Tuapeka Commonage 1 on same terms as previously.— Af proved. , Mr W. A. Bodk'n, on behalf of the Otago Central Trotting Club, applied,to have sections part 127, 135, and 134,' block I, 48 acres 1 rood 27 poles, Leaning Rook district, set aside as a racecourse reserve.—Resolved that the area be temporarily reserved as a raoecourse reserve.

Messrs Adams Bros., on behalf of Mr John Allan (a discharged soldier), suggested that the law whereby the holder of a lease in perpetuity under The Land for Settlements Act had now no right to acquire the freehold, be amended so as to provide for soldiers who were on active service at the time the right expired being allowed the right to purchase.—Left in the hands of the commissioner to refer the matter to the Under-seoretary for Lands: Mr H. Bayley applied for about 2000 acres of Rooklands on the ground that the land which he already held was too small to make a living on. —Declined. The board was requested to authorise the issue of a lease over section 100, block IX, Leaning Rock S.D.. to Mrs Myrah Harley[ of Alexandra.—Gr.mted. '

The Under-secretary for Lands drew attention_ to paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of section 12 of The Publio Bodies' Leases Aot, 1905. re remission of rents on education leases.—The board was of opinion that tile section of the Act does not give power to remit rents.