DISTRICT LAND BOARD.

Southland Times, Issue 1585, 31 May 1872, Page 3

DISTRICT LAND BOARD.

Ttbsdat, 28th Mat, 1872. The District Land Board held it 3 usual meeting to day. Present — The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Messrs Bundas and Baker. The application of John Macintosh for 50 acres in the Forest Hill Hundred was granted. Hugh Cameron applied for 100 acres in the Waimumu Hundred, bounded on the east by the Watsura river, on the south and west by the "Waimumu stream, on the north by a line at right •angles to the main road, to include acreage. The land applied for is part of the Ferry Beserve. A memorandum was read from Mr Donald Keid, Provincial Secretary for Lands, dated 11th inst., as follows : — " It is intended that Mr Cameron should be allowed to purchase 100 acres without competition. If this is not in accordance with the rules of the Southland Waste Land Board, and if there is a rule that all lands which have been reserved from sale should he submitted at public auction — which as a general rule is a very good one — the (Tovernment will be compelled to -purchase and hand over to Mr Cameron at upset price. Under the special circumstances connected ■with the case, it would he better if the 100 acres could be sold to Cameron without auction, as it appears that certain engagements entered into ■with him by the late Government of Southland hare not been fulfilled (Signed) D. Beid, ; Secretary for Lands." It was resolved that Mr Cameron's application as put in could not be entertained, inasmuch as it includes the lignite bed cropping out of the Waimumu at its junction •with the Mataura, and the site for the railway station, village, &c, but that a section of 100 acres in the Ferry Beserve, to include Mr Cameron's improvements, be surveyed and advertised for application in the usual manner ; the value of the improvements to be added to the upset price of the section, should it be found necessary to put it up to auction in consequence of more applications than one being lodged on the same day. Several surveys were passed.