TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 3

TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. Tlip usual meeting of the Taranaki Land Board was hold on Wednesday. Tlie Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr (;. H. Bullard, presided, and members present were .Messrs .). Rattenbury, C. J. Ryan, and A. Coxhead. TRANSFERS. Jas. Pedersen held section 7, block :>>, Upper Waitara, 60S acres, under 0.R.P., but was not resident, and his interest was forfeited. He had mortgaged the section to Mrs M. M. Pasmi, at whose request the Hoard sns ponded the forfeiture to enable her to release. She obtained a transfer from Pedersen, but consent was refused, as she did not propose to reside. The Board then gave her time to find an eligible person who would take over the property. This she has now done, and the consent is required first t<transfer to Mrs Passau, to place her in .". legal, position, and secondly for a transfer from her to J. M. McLeod. Tlie proposed transferee is landless, and has been six years dairying and bush farming.—The transfers wvve ap proved.

A. E. Smaller appiled to transfer section 26, block 5, Ngatimarn, 307 acres, and sections 5 and 0, block 5 (100 acres), to Joseph Smitheran, consideration £lllß 15s. All condition: have been complied with, and residenc; is no longer necessary. Smaller ac quired the sections by transfer in, January last at £3711. The transferee is landless and eligible.—Approved. F. C. Coxhead applied to transfei <-.oe. pt. 68, black 14, Pouatu, 1 IS:. l,r Op, to F. E. Baker, on ground of ill-health, consideration £1200; all

conditions complied with. The trans force is a single man and landless. and lias sufficient cows to stock the place. Value of improvements effected is £176; value of freehold £,360. Approved. An application by W. H. Collet to transfer section 29, block 1, Tangitu. to Jag. Duffy and J. H. Brown was refused,' as Brown was not landless. Phe application was revived in a request for consent to transfer to Jas Duffy. As inquiries jseenied satisfactory, the transfer was approved, li "as now come to *tne notice of the Board that Brown is still interested in the proposed transfer, and is apparently financing Duffy with a view to ultimately securing the land. It •s therefore resolved that the rcsoluion granting consent be rescinded, md that it be left to the .discretion jf the Commissioner to take further ac-

tion if necessary. A. M'Gntchaii} 1 selector of section 3, block 4, Rangi, 560 acres, applied to transfer 280 acres to Mm M. Barrott for the sum of £230. The transferee is landless and eligible. M'Cutchan has held the section 17 months.— Consideration was deferred, pending : report from the ranger. B. C. Lysaght applied to transfer section 1, block 14, Omona, 990 acres. Education Reserve Lease, to Alexander Hatrick. /Consideration £4482. The lease is held for a' term of 3d •cars from July 1, 1900, with light ;>i renewal. Rental. £l6 12s per annum; and there are improvement conditions..—Approved, subject to the usual conditions. Application by Evan .Jones, lessee >! Education Reserve lease, section 42, block 3, Ngaire, 80 acres, for consent to week to week tenancies of five eotLages let to R. Held, (J. Robin, .i. West, (J. Morrison and Doran. There lias been a technical breach of the lease in letting these cottages without consent, but as they appear to have been erected and let under the School Commissioners without objection it i-.T.s resolved to, consent. Consent to transfer of section 7-'!, block 10, l'ouatu, 1221 acres, from (J. IT. Thomas to ,(.'. YV. Stapleton was granted on May 22, 1913, and it now Granspires it was a sublease to which ■onscnt was required.—Granted. It. If. Phillips, jun., obtained section !, block 15., I'ppor WaitanT. 204 a 2r by transfer from John Chadvvick on May !, 1913. When called on to reside he stated he was living on adjoining 'and in the meantime. The section was inspected on March 12, L 914, but die selector was not residing on it nor on adjoining land. He now states he : ias been away helping his father, but intends to reside. As it is reported in die district that he has no intention of residing, it was resolved to notify him 'hat his explanation is not sufficient, mt if he will have a habitable house erected within three months and be living in it permanently no action .ill be taken in the meantime. W. G. Speody, selector of section 2, dock 7, Heao, 203 acres, applied for permission to reside off the section. —lt was resolved to grant him exempted for twelve months, and that he :0 informed it is not in the interests •i other children who will require a ehool that his family should be withdrawn for an indefinite period. -lose])!) Hayes applied for a year-to-year lease of section :>, block ,16, Ohura, 391 acres, gazetted as a stock reserve.—lt was resolved to approve he application at a rental of £2 per annum. It was resolved to offer section t, block 11, Aria, 1039 acres, subdivided 'nto section as shown on scheme tracnig, to be approved by the Commisio.ner under optional conditions at a valuation to be made. F. K. Cribb, tdjoining owner, wants to acquire some of the area, but it was resolved to refuse his application. it is proposed to cancel the interest of John Sheehy, in section 12. block \ Ohura, 185 acres, as he has failed .o sign the lincense.—Consideration deferred.