WASTE LAND BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 254, 12 December 1872, Page 5

WASTE LAND BOARD.

•„, Afethe insisting of the Board last week there, were present the- Chief. Commissioner, .MessrVtolnue, Allan, Duncan, and Hughes, and'the following business was transacted :— \ ejections by John Scott, lessee of run '4^9, "-and' also by R. ,C. Bryant, against granting -to J. W. Eoberteon and Co. a license -to occupy 75 acres 'at Kinloehfora paddock, were' read. "Patrick Cumming'sagplicatlon to purchase section 8, block 4r4 r Tuapeka East, held by bimiinder agricultural lease, was sanctioned. On Win. Master's application, for a pastoral lease of Run 432, it was resolved that the land be sold by auction on the usual terms.

' Plans of applications to purchase unsur'veyed. lands 1 were submitted for approval by the undermentioned, who asked to be declared purchasers : — Arch. M'Sinnon, aection 11, ' block 2, Kuriwao ; Alex. Miller, section- 6, block 2, Waipahi. The applications were granted. ' Edward Campbell, for Wm. Eichardson and -others, applied for an extension of time to survey application in -North Harbor and Blueekin District. It was resolved to draw the surveyor's attention to the work, and to grant .extension 'for three months, on account of the special circumstances of .the case, the land being situated in the busE. William Hecklar's application for authority to bare sorreyed part of block ll f

Hawkesbury, to complete bis property, and to have it offered for sale at 10a an acre, was withdrawn.

Mr G F. Reid, for J. W. Robertson and Co., applied to purchase five acres of land at One Mile Creek, for a woollen manufactory. The matter was referred to Warden Beetham for report. Mr Ball's application, on behalf of D. Sinnott, to have section 8, block 28, Havelock, put «p for sale, was referred to the Warden for report. Mr Pat rson's application, on behalf of Mr Anderson, for a lease of the country between Buns 446 and 161, was postponed. The consideration of the application of W. Hecklar and others, for an extension of time to prospect for copper in the bush reserve, Mount Watkins, wae postponed.