WASTE LAND BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 2 May 1872, Page 6

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The Waste Land Board met at noon on Wednesday. Present the Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands in the chair, Messrs Reid, Duncan, and Hughes William Brown's application for a lease of 80 acres of Strath Taieri Township was declined. The east part of the township to be put up for sale in sections as surveyed and duly advertised. The application of R. Waitken to purchase his pre-emptive right, in terms of the 83rd e]aus« of the Waste Land Act, 1866, was directed to be amended, so as to take up less frontape and avoid the village site prior to being approved. The Switzer's Manse site was approved. The consideration of Robert Rotson's application to have Totara Island, Clutha river, opened for sale, was approved. On the application by W. Turton, on behalf of Williams and Archer, for a jetty site at Kingston, it was directed that an annual license be granted at LI per annum. ■v On Cable and Drummond'a application to purchase bush land in Waipori and Maungatua districts, they were directed, to be informed that the bush and road would be excluded, and a surveyor must be found for the applicant. ] Connoll and Moodie's application, on behalf of D. M'Kellar. to have sections 24, 33, aud 34, block 8, Clarendon, put up for sale, was agreed to. Same, for same, to have the reserve withdrawn from sections 1, 2, and 3, Waihola district, and the land offered for sale. The applicant was directed to survey the road, the land then to be put up for sale, with the cost of survey added. Same, for Ralph Moir, to have 16| acres, town of Balclutha, put up for sale. Declined. Same, for Martin Macfarlane, for license to occupy one acre, part of Kaitangata, for a coal-shed and jetty. Granted— frontage not to exceed one hundred feet. Arnual license, LI. Mr Reid's application, for John Paterson, for a reduction of his saw-mill license at Tapanui from L3O to L2O, was considered. Under tbe special circumstances license to be reduced LlO for one year. Cable and Druinmond's application to have section 14, block 15, Maungatua, put up for sale at 10s an acre, was agreed to. Thomas Miller's application for permission to cut flax on unsold land in Dunedin and East Taieri District, block 3, was granted without exclusive privilege. On Warden Robinson's report, respecting David Stewart's application to purchase a quarter of an acre at his hotel at Naseby, the land was directed to be surveyed by the applicant and offered at auction, with valuation attached. Upset price, L 5. A report was directed to be obtained respecting a ferry site applied for at Rocky Point, on the Clutha River, by M'Ziele, for George M'Lanchlan. Connell and Moodie's application, on behalf of W. A, Ewing and Co., to cut flax on Cemetery Reserve Coast District, was granted. No exclusive privilege granted.