WASTE LAND BOARD. June 23.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 231, 4 July 1872, Page 6

WASTE LAND BOARD. June 23.

There were present at to-day's meeting, the Chief Commissioner (in the chair) Messrs Reid and Hughes. Alex. Sinclair applied for a license to occupy 15 acres of the reserve at Portobello for the purpose of cutting the wood and cultivating the land for ten years. An annual license was granted, renewable for seven years, commencing on July 1, at L 5 a year. John M'Coll applied to purchase about 15 acres of bush reserve, sec. 10, block 8, Dunedin and East Taieri, to include a spring required for a supply of water for his property adjoining. It was ordered that the land having been withheld from sale for some time, be advertised for sale as land of special value at LI an acre.

The report of the district surveyor on the auriferous nature of the land applied for by Messrs GelHbrand and Co. at 10s an acre, and the plan of the land applied for were submitted. Both documents were referred to the Government.

The requests of William Snow for permission to cut flax on the Traquair Hundred and on the reserves in and around Outram, and of James Bewley to cut on Crown lands at Outrarn, were granted without exclusive privilege. Edward Burrows wrote enquiring if the Board would be likely to grant another lime-burnins u.~i«se m the v^ueeuscown district besides that already granted to him. It was agreed to reply that the Board could not undertake not to grant another lease should it be applied for. Mr H. Smythies, jun., as agent for Charles Benge, Kawarau, who had purchased Wrightson and M 'Gee's interest in a coal mine there, believing they had a valid title, wrote requesting that the lease might be sent up, so that he might compel Wrightson and M'Gee to sign, so that Benge might be allowed to apply for and have a lease in his name. The Board resolved that if the lease be not signed by Wrightson, the land would be again open for application, as not having been duly executed. The report of Mr Warden Robinson on the dispute between Caleb Dougee and Pierce and Washer respecting coal found in the tail-race draining the latter's land, and which runs through Dougee's area, Having been read, the Commissioner was instructed to take action, Dougee not having signed his lease.

The application of John Kerrin for a pastoral lease of Run 444 (5000 acres), on the north-west branch of tbe Motatapu, was declined. Land to be assessed, and put up by auction.

Andrew Robinson applied to purchase bush reserve, section 33, block 2, Clarendon district, to complete his property. It was ordered that the land be sold by auction as land of special value, at LI per acre.

David Duncan's application to purchase an acre of land about ten miles from Naseby, on the Hamilton road, was declined.

The Town Clerk, Queenstown, wrote that the Council recommended the application of Williams and Archer for a site for a store and jetty opposite block 25, Queenstown, to be granted. It was agreed to grant a license at LI an acre, on a plan of the site being approved. The following persons were declared purchasers of land : — William Dermer, section 1, block 9, Mount Hyde ; John Butters, section 60, block S, North Harbor, and Blueskin; A. B. Matthews, sections 134 to 138, 143, 144, and 149 block 5, Tuapeka East ; John Geeves, section 3, block 10, do ; William Elliott, sections 4 and 5, block 17, Shotover ; James Reid, sections sto 8, 72 to 74, block 7, do.

Mr John Douglass applied to purchase unsold land in blocks 9, 10, 11, and 12, Hawkesbury District, at 10s per acre. The land to be surveyed by applicant into sections not exceeding 320 acres each ; then to be put up by anction with survey cost added, to be repaid py applicant if he be not the purchaser.