WASTE LAND BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAND BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting of the Board washeld on the2sth ; present — the Chief Commissioner, Messrs Butterworth, Clark, Reid, and Strode. Mr John Cowper applied to purchate 5 acres of block 19, Tuapeka bast. Deferred until the whole block can be systematically surveyed. Mr James M'Donald applied to be allowed to cut timber in a bwon. bush at B<>b's Covv, Lake Wakatip. The Ranger reported that the timber was all burnt and decayed, but still that the application should not be granted, or numbers of other? would he sent in. Regu'ations to be adhered to, and the usual lic-nse taken out. Mr Innes, Ranger at Queenstown, requested instructions as to his power to seize and sell timber illegally cut in the forests of that district. To seize all timbers so cut on Crown lands, if perfectly satisfied that sue i has been done, Messi a J. and W. Dawsou applied for repayment of the cost of survey of sections 18 and 19, block 9, Toi Tois, held under certificate on deferred payment. The survey fees have been fixed by regulation under date May 23, 1871, and these are to be deducted from rents as they become due by tbe Receiver of Land Revenue. Mr Doughty, for Mr Black, applied to have the reserve taken off sections 19 and 20, block 3, Waihola. It was found that the .land was reserved far occupation by license or lease, and the application was refused, unless Mr Black take it under clause 161. Mr Doughty, for Mr J. D. Feraud, applied to purchase sections 43 and 49, block 1, Leaning Kock, lately held under agricultural lease. There being no objection, the j application was granted. i Mr W. A. Wilson applied to purchase an < I island, about oae acre, in Papanui Inlet, for the purpose of growing tree 3. Refused, as ' it would serve no public or private purpo.se, ] and would odst in Crown grant, &c, more i than it would bring in. Mr Thomas Marsh applied for a coal-min- , ing lease of five acres in block I, Cromwell. , To be surveyed, asd if no objection is ] offered, to be granted on the usual terms. i Mr Johu Towan applied to purchase fifty < acres in section 3, block 1, Cromwell. The « consen of the ruuholder had not been ob- 1 tamed, but only that of the manager of the i run, and it was adjourned to get that of the former or his attorney. Land also to be re- ] surveyed. Mr Thomas Darton applied to purchase a \ water-race included in hections 18 and 19, f block 1, Tuapeka, held under agricultural f lease It was found that there was no ob- 1 jection, and the application was granted. ' The I^aseby Corporation applied to have £ an area 60 x 100 liuks, opposite section 97, ( block 1, lSaseby, reserved for a back entrance ( to the Town Hall. Agreed to. ( The following applications for exchange of , lea-es under clause 62 were sanctioned: — T F. de St. Omer, j.ection-27, Mid- Wakatip ; f J. Litchfield, section 3, block 2, section 2 i block 2, and section 13, block 2, Tiger dill I — Mr Litchtield's conditionally on the reut l being paid up. ' Air J. H. Pope applied for protection to } prospect for coal at a gully in Deep Creek, 1 Kawarau. Granted. Messrs Hastedt and M'Donald applied fer t permission to prospect for copp-r on Messrs 1 Campbell and Low's run, Manuherikia. t Graated. f Mr Connell, for Sir F. D. Bell and the c New Zealand Land Co., submitted plans of v boundary agreed upon by those parties, between their respective runs 109 and 209, North-eastern pastoral district, and which they wished adjusted. Mr Council stated that the only difficulty was the altering of the boundary of the goldfield, and that had L been got over by Mr Reid having said that it s would be sanctioned. The Chief Conamis 2 sioner said the matter affected a very large f territory— s,ooo or 6,000 acres — and he r thought one of tha runs being mort- ( ga^ed, that the mortgagee should be con- j suited. The latter was in England, and v nothing therefore could be done until his 1 conseut was received, as it would be nothing j less than tampering with the records. An- c other ttdug was, that the Governor's dele- c gate*, that is, the Provincial Executive, a would be required to be consulted as to the t alteration of the goldfield boundary. Mr s Reid said the alteration would be allowed, t and the matter was approved, but to stand c over until the mortgagee's consent is v obtained. , s The Chief Commissioner read some notes i he had set down with reference to the appli- g cation of Messrs Joseph Harding and Co., for o a site at tbe West Coast for a fish-curing a establishment, and for 5,000 acres of land for fi depasturing and other purposes. It appeared \ that applicants had Fixed upon the best t three harbors they could find — Bas-il Harbor, s Duck Cove, and Case ide Cove. After a long r discussion as to the guarantee applicants t could give that their proposal would be car- f: ried out, and the conditions which should be c laid down, it was decided to r fer the matter a to the Provincial Secretary, for him to look t into it carefully. a Mr Robert Glenn submitted reasons for a c reduction in the price of the residence area i: applied for by him in Naseby. Reduced to c LlO per acre, upset pt ice, _ i The following applications to purchase c land hel I under agricultural leases were I agreed to : — Mr J. D, Feraud, sections 43 t and 59, block 1, 1 caning Rock ; Mr D, t M'Kinlay, section 2, block 1, Eyre. ' a — ■ — — —^— i