DISTRICT LAND BOARD.

Southland Times, Issue 1587, 4 June 1872, Page 2 (Supplement)

DISTRICT LAND BOARD.

Tuesday, 28th Ma*, 1872. The District Land Board held its usual meeting to day; Present — The Commissioner of - Crown Lands, Messrs Dundas and Bafcer. 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 ' Mataura river, on the south and west by the Waimumu stream, on the north by a liDe at right angles to the main road, to include acreage. The land applied for is part of the Ferry Reserve. A memorandum was read from Mr Donald Eeid, 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 be submitted at y public- aMction-rrwhich as a general rule is a very" „, good- one— the .Government will he compelled to' I.- purchase:, and handover to Mr Cameron at upset' ■ ; price.! "Under .the special circumstances connected v i with the case! it would be better if the 100 acres (/-could be.sold to -Cameron without auction, as it .;■ -appears -that certain engagements entered into j-with him by the.late Government of, Southland have not been fulfilled (Signed) D. Eeid, •;• Secretary for Lands." It was resolved that Mr Cameron's application as put in could not be entertained, inasmuch as'ifc 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 ' ' Caxneron's ' improvements, be surveyed and c: . M adv :^Ttised for application in the usual manner; , ; 'tfce' value of the improvements to be added to the J upset price of the section, should it be found ' neceesary to' put it up to aliction in consequence " "oJE,pjoif6 applications than' one- being lodged 1 on "" lift same' dajri'; ■ ' •' ' ' "; u fltfveral gilrveyswerepasßedi: <