WASTE LAND BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 228, 13 June 1872, Page 5

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The meeting of the Board was held on the sth— Messrs Reid (in the chair), Bathgate, and Hughes being present. A good deal of business was transacted, the principal being : — Messrs J. Hutchinson and Co. applied for a pre-emptive right on run No. 177. A right not exceeding 80 acres was granted, the area to be surveyed, and the purchase completed before the sale of the lease of the run.

Messrs Gillies and Street applied, for Mr Kirkpatrick, for a return of the deposit paid on Run No. 440, which it was agreed to be returned, because an inspection of the land proved it to be inaccessible and useless for pastoral purposes. . Messrs Heckler and Co. applied for protection to prospect for copper in the neighborhood of Mount Watkin. It was resolved to grant protection on the unsold land for six months.

Protection was granted to Alex. M'Laren (for whom Messrs Driver, Stewart, and Co. made application) t© prospect for coal for six months on eighty acres, on sections 1, block 111, and 7 and 8, block 11, North Molyneux. Mr John Scott, lessee of run No 419, wrote withdrawing his consent to the sale of section 6, Upper Wakatip, to Mr Bott. Mr Reid expressed the opinion that he did not think a runholder having given his coDsent could withdraw it. The point was referred to the Provincial Solicitor for consideration.

The district land officer at Clyde wrote returning Messrs Wrightson and Co.'s .coal lease, in consequence «f being unable to obtain signatures 1 to the lease. It was pointed out that at present they were in the position of trespassing on the ground, and it was resolved that unless the lease was executed forthwith, they should be ejected and have their deposit forfeited. A decision on Messrs Daniel, Blacklock, and Calder's * application for permission to prospect for tin ore oa the shores of Bligh

Sound for a term of six months, commencing from the termination of the 'protection granted to Mr Brunton, was deferred till the expiry of Mr Brunton's present protection right. Mr John M'Crae applied to purchase section 49, block IV., Table Hill district, held by him under agricultural lease. The application was declined, the Warden believiug the ground to be auriferous. Mr John Porteous applied to have section 66, block 1., Waikouaiti district, and a temporary bush reserve, opened for sale. The application was referred to the Ranger to report upon. Ranger litines wrote, forwarding a petition from the settlers of Waikouaiti regariiug a person depasturing sheep on the Waikouaiti Hundred, contrary to the regulations. He was instructed to recommend a boundary, within the limit of which sheep could be kept, and also to prevent any licenseholder depasturing stock in excess of the number he was entitled to. The application of Mr M'Pherson, ferryman, Clutha, to place a wire rope across the river lower down than he now occupies was granted, with exclusive privilege only to the spot on which the wire would be actually erected. Sales of the following areas, occupied under agricultural lease by the respective persons applying to purchase them, were sanctioned, subject to pa>inent being made within a month. Sections 11, 12, and 13, block 11, Tuapeaka East, S. Anderson ; section 8, block 111., and section 5, block VI., Tuapeka West, J. Hogg; section 17, block XIX., Tuapeka Ebb', J.V. Herbert. Mr George Fraser's application for a saw mill license at Waipori was granted on the usual conditions, and subject to a sketch of the boundaries being scut in. Rauger Irving wrote, intimating that Messrs Maitland Brothers had fenced in the unsold land ia the Stuart Hundred, Mr Reid : They appear to still look upon it as a run. What shall we do, Mr Bathgate ?— knock down the fence ? Bathgate was understood to say they might have fenced in an area proportionate to the number of stock they were depasturing, to protect the feed. Mr Reid : They have no right to fence on that account. Tha matter was referred to the Provincial Solicitor.

Mr Benjamin Bray applied to purchase 25 acres of the bush reserve, block V., Hawksbury district. He had previously made an application, which had been declined, for 50 acres of the same reserve. He wrote that the land was not worth LI per acre ; but he desired to get the land, so that he could clear it. with a view of protecting his house, which was worth L4OO, from bush fires. The Board adhered to its former decision not to grant the application. Applications as follows to purchase land in Martin's Bay settlement, at 5s per acre, were granted, in terms of the regulations : Mr J. Whitburne, section 1, block L, Hollyford, 100 acres ; Mr T. Hicks, sectiin 2, block L, Hollyford, 100 acres.