MEETING OF THE EDUCATION BOARD.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 71, 15 December 1875, Page 2

MEETING OF THE EDUCATION BOARD.

The Education Board met on Monday morning last at the usual hour. All the members were present, excepting Sir Mediae ; Mr Dale, who had been nominated at the last meeting, taking his seat. The minrites of the last meeting were read and confirmed.TENDERS FOR RESERVES.The Board then proceeded to cleft! with the reserves. Before doing so, however. Mr Coutls suggested that prior to opening the tenders, the Board should plane a reserve on each, and this was agreed to. The next point was to determine how the Board should proceed in case of the highest tender being equal for any of the sections. Mr Christie proposed that in that ease the lease should be put up to auction, hut after discussion the Board resolved that equal tenderers should draw lots to decide who should take it. The Board then fixed the reserve prices, after some debate, as follows : —7 Carlyle, Block 18, section 7, Ir ;■ Block 19. section 10, Ir ; both for a term of 21 years ; £2 per annum' each. Carlyle, Block 7, containing sections 3, 4.0, let those at not less than 3Ps per annum cadi, the term being 21 years. Carlyle. Suburban allotment 40, containing Ga Or op : £1 2s Gd for 7 years, £1 10s for 14 years. Carl le Suburban allotment 42, conJ 1 £ •-, • -(* ■ ,1* • •>**. ‘I YflJ -.-i 1

Patoa District. Allotment 00, centaining 242 aUr ;JUp. Five shillings per acre 14 years ; seven shillings, 21 years. llawera. Allotment 18U. containing 40a or 18p. Fifteen shillings per acre for 14, twenty shilling's for 21 years'. Tongahtv.- Abutment 211,- containing yShi 2r.- Fight shillings per acre for 14, ten shillings fur 21 years. Township’ of .Makoia. Pi.irt of Town Belt, containing (Ida Ir 1 .’>[►. Seven shillings per acre for 1 1, lea shillings for 2l years - . . Township of Kakaramea. Part of Town Belt, eonlaining - 112a or 28p. Ten s’lllllings per acre for 14, liiteen shillings for 2 1 years', . . Ohavfe. Part of Town Belt, eontaii ing 22a dr. Six shillings per acre for 14, ten shillings for 2! wars. It will i.i! coins; lie nmlerslood that the above reserve 1 rales were per acre per d/tnuiTl. X Before opening the tenders, it was resolved to ad here strict I y (o | he condition , and in ease of any tenderer failing - to accompany his olfer with a cheque or rash to the, amount of ten per cent on the first years rental, as laid down in them, to reject it as informal. As it happened the only one wiio did not comply with the rule was Mr Thomas Bayly, of New Plymouth, and Ids offer could not therefore !«' enterlaim-d. This, however, was of no consequence, as others olfered more money than he did for the sections he tendered for. The fo l w.ng tenders were received for the lots di scribed, above. It was resolve I, as no eligible tender had been sent in for the sections on Block 27, that these should b; open to any one to take up at the reserve price of HUs per annum each ; and that Mr Pish, who had applied for two should have them on those terms.

For Allotment 40 : —M. McMahon, £1 /is G 1. for 14 years ; 11. F. Christie, ill l/w (id, for 7 years ; A. Mcßae, £2 Is, for 14 years ; T. Lloyd, £2, 14 years ; W. Dale, £1 10s, 14 years. The tender of Mr Christie was accepted. Allotment 42: W. ale, £2, for 14 years ; A. Mcßae, £2 Us. 14 years; T. Lloyd, £lB per annum, 14 years; F. McCarthy, the same oiler ; (I. W. Williams, £l2, 14 years. Allotment 59 : —F. M. Iloneyfield, 5s 3d for twenty-one years ; W. S. Campbell, 4s (Id, same term. J. Fairweather made (he following olfer—First seven years, at 4s 9d, next seven at 7s, and the third seven at U)s (Id This was accepted. Allotment 189 Jlawera:—J. Winks, 20s, twenty-one years ; T. Qninlivan. 20s Gd, same term. Tlio latter was accepted. Tongalme. Allotment 211. There was only one offer, that of Matthew Burnett, 14s. for twenty-one years, which was accepted. Makoia : —Thomas llayley, 10s Od, twenty-one years ; F. Hay ley ss, fourteen and Gs, for tweidy-one years ; .1. G. beamish, 12s, for twenty-one years. The last was accepted, Knkaramea :—Thomas Bay ley. 8s 2d ; W. S. Campbell, 7s Gd ; W. .1. Tingey 5s ; Mediae ami Nicholson, 12s 9d ; J. Dnnne, 10s ; Morn's Huberts tendered at 7s for a swen years, 14s, for next seven years, and 17s, for (he last seven years ; Patterson Brnsoff'ered 8s Gd.aml on eertain conditions 10s Gd : T. Delamore, IGs, for fourteen 'years, IGs Gd twenty-one years. The last was accepted. All the others not specially stated were for (grins of twenty-one years. Oliawe :—Livingstone and McMichael, 7s Gd. for twenty-one years, it not compelled to fence, 9s. These oilers being under tbe reserves above fixed were tiedined, but the Secretary was instructed to offer the ground to the. tenderers at the reserve of 10s, the Board to waive the fencing condition. It will be understood that all these offers excepting some lump sums for section 42 were per aero per annum. This concluded tho disposal of the leases. RESERVES IN' PATKA AND WHENUA(OJAUA. A letter was received from Captain Wray, officer in charge of Conliseated Lands, stating that lie was instructed to to place sections 184, 545, 54G, 507, Paten District, and G7, Whenuaknra District, at the disposal of the Board and that the latter was authorised to deal with them at once. It was then resolved that those lamls not allotted, together with the above sections, should be submitted to auction on the Blh of January next at Carlyle, the conditions being the same as those leased by tender, excepting that the terms shall be seven years for suburban, fourteen years for rural, and twenty-one for town. Mr Coweru was appointed auctioneer. Tho sale will be advertised three times in the Patka Maid, on the 22nd, 29tli December and sth January, and some posters will also be circulated. Mr Middlemas was requested to prepare a set of rules for the conduct of business by the next meeting. An application from Mr Dyer relative to an increase of Ids salary was postponed till the next meeting. After some other unimportant business the Board adjourned till the 3rd of January 1876.