WASTE LANDS BOARDS

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 15 August 1874, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARDS

The regular weekly meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held on Wednesday, Pregeut-nThe Chief Commissioner (in the chaif), Messrs. Butterworth, Bastings, Clark, and Strode. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. • IEE STREAM HUNDRED. . Mr. Harris, for Kobert Glenn, applied to purchase sections 3 and 9, Lee Stream Hundred, under the 85th section. He believed the land had been surveyed, and the sections were from 200 to 250 acres each. The Commissioner : I think it would scarcely be right to the public to grant the application. Mr. Harris said the improvements effected by Glenn were the means of affording great accommodation to travellers. „ The Commissioner : It is about to be declared in Hundreds, and we must get the runholder's consent. The Board resolved that the runholders consent was necessary, and, failing that, the applicant to wait' till the hundred is proclaimed ; .the land to be sold under clause 85 at £1 Is per acre, having been so long occupied : five acmr of section 3 only, round the applicant's' house were granted. - tTNSURVEYED SECTIONS. Mr. Kircaldy, for Messrs. Cargills, Gibbs, and Co., stated that two sections of block VII., Waipahee, were granted by the Board under the deferred payment system to Mr. A.-Tolmie, and the first payment was made in January last, The land had not yet been surveyed, nor the licenses issued. Upon the second halfyear's rent being tendered, the Receiver of Land Revenue refused to accept it. As there might be some difficulty about the land, in consequence of its not having been surveyed, the agent 3 for the lessee wished to have the matter notified by the 'Board. The Commissioner : You have a witness as to the gold being tendered ? Mr. Kircaldy : Yes, but the witness might die, and we wish the Board to have it recorded on the minutes. Mr. Bastings . I think it is merely a matter of detail. The Board refused to grant the request. A SOLICITOR REQUIRED. Mr. Hugh Bruce wished to know if he should pay for a license to sell coal as well as for a license to mine. Mr. Bastings (after a short discussion) : ■Perhaps the applicant should consult his solicitor* Mr. Clarke : I do not see why the Board should not give an opinion. Mr. Strode : The applicant has not son*, the solicitor's fee. — ~( Laughter.) It was resolved to refer the lessee to the 91st section Waste Lands Act, 1872. ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. Mr. P. Kane wrote to the Board, complaining that Thomas Docherty was in illegal occupation of part of section 23, block 111., Tuapeka East. Referred to the Ranger. POSTPONEMENT. At the request of Mr. Mouat, the reconsideration of Mr. Duncan M'Crae's application to purchase section 10, block IV., Tuapeka East, was postponed for a week. FOREST PLANTATIONS. Mr. Walter Miller applied for an allotment "under clause 109 for forest planting. The Commissioner : Mr. Miller and I have arranged to submit the following conditions to the Board. The allotment to comprise 200 acres, for a period of four years, 50 acre 3 every year to be planted according to Ordinance Regulations ; 50 acres of fencing to be erected every year ; the remainder to be open to the public till fenced. Report to the Waste Lands Board every six months, after inspec ion by the Ranger. Agreement to plant English and foreign trees 8 feet apart, and to maintain fences in good repair. The lessee may claim a Crown grant where trees' have grown to the number of 500 to the acre, and a height of five feet for blue gums, and 3 feet English or foreign. Survey to be made at applicant's expense. On the Ranger reporting no progress, or insufficient progress, the Board may withdraw the license. The license to commence from the date of survey within six months. Mr. Basting : When there is any disposition shown "to plant, I think the Board should offer every facility. The Commissioner : This is the principle the Board must act upon — we must have easy re-occupation. In answering a question, Mr. Miller said he intended to plant Ocilif ornian trees, and they would grow excellently in this country. ■ Theterms were approved by the Board, and ordered to be forwarded to the Superintendent for his sanction. LAND ON THE GOLDFIEDS. Sections applied for by the following in the districts mentioned were ordered to be -sold ■; — D. Stevenson, W. Livingston, G. Stevenson, and J. Cameron, Waitahuna East ; R. W. Nichols and John Sutherland, Tuapeka East ; and W. IT. Miller, Hillend. The following applications were refusefd: — H. L. Squires, J. Ryan, J Bulfin, John Scott, 11. Bruce, J. Thompson, W. Trumble, J. Sutherland, and John Ross, Waitahuna East ; J. Dewes, J. Campbell, J. Sutherland, R. Craig, W. Sutherland, and J. Waters, Table Hill; and J. Wilkins, Cairn Hill. Mr. G. Milne?s application for section 15, block IV., Waitahuna East, was granted, but the sections in block V. were reserved. The consideration of Messrs. Docherty and Galbraith's application for section 28, block VI. % Tuapeka Easfc, was postponed. SURRENDER OF CLAIM. Mr Chas. M'lnnes wished to surrender his claim of sections 2 and 3, block 11., Glenkenich. The reason stated was indisposition. Mr, Strode : It is entirely a personal matter. The Act requires that a certain time should elapse before possession is given up. ■ Mr. Clark. I think the applicant should be compensated for improvements. Mr. Butterworth . He does not ask for any compejisation j he simply asks to be released. Mr. Strode: That is all. The conditions of the, lease include the lessee's assigns. The Commissioner : That word li assigns " was, I think, smuggled ia against the intention of the Legislature, The surrender was accepted. TmsURVEYBD LAND. The following applications for unsuryeyed land in the districts undermentioned were granted :— James Shand Waipori, Mount Hyde, and Maungatua •

John Barraclough, Mount Hyde ; W., A. P., and R. Scobie, Kuriwao ; Andrew Noble, P. Fletcher, P. Grant, John C. Strangman, R. Menzies, Alfred Douglas, James Mahen, Alexander Chisholm, P. Fletcher, J. M'Gillivray, and G. G. Fyfe, Wyndham ; Gellibrands and Smith, Waikouaiti ; Charles Uarnsell and James Shand Maungatua. APPLICATION TO PURCHASE. Mr. J. Thompson applied to purchase a section of block 1., Waitahuna Kast. If he could secure this land, it would enable him to send his children to the Waitahuna school. Mr. Clark : We should have a road surveyed. ' The Commissioner : The Survey De-partment-.should look after the roads, Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark : But I think the settlers near the applicant should have the same privilege accorded. It is not right that the Board should agree to the application. The Commissioner : The Surveyor is responsible for that. Mr* Clark : The Board should see to these things. Could not the Board call the attention of the Surveyor to the locality 1 Mr. Miller made a few suggestions. The Commissioner : We might call the attention of the Surveyor's Department to see that the roads are properly attended to. Mr. Miller : That would just meet my case, if the Surveyor is instructed to take particular observation as to roads in surveying these districts. Mr. Strode : But we are at one special case now. The Commissioner : I will send a notjee to the Chief Surveyor, calling his attention to the subject. ANOTHER FARMER. j The Warden reported that he knew of no objection to W. H. Miller's application for 400 acres. Mr. Miller, sen. : This is another son of mine. I have four sons, and wish them to settle near me. I think it but right that the young men should be encouraged to settle in the country. Mr. Clark ; What age is the applicant ? .Mr. Miller : About 14. The application was granted. THE WAITAHTTKTA GOXDFIJ3LDS. The Warden having reported no objection to the sale of a certain section, Mr. Gillies said he was interested m a case somewhat similar, where it had been proved that no gold was there now. Mr Bastings: It is impossible to tell whether there is gold there or not. Mr. Gillies : There are, I believe, gentlemen present who will bear me out that the section has been thoroughly worked. There can be no objection to this application being granted. You granted holdings to others in the same blocK. I think it is a yery hard matter. The Commissioner : The other applications were granted under, a mistake. Mr. Bastings . If these applications are approved it would eventually have the effect of depopulating Waitahtma. Mr. Gillies: It would satisfy the applicants generally if the Board came to a formal resolution on the subject. Mr. Bastings : I have seen the decisions of the Board on this subject published in the daily papers. A notice has also been posted stating that the blacks are not for sale. Mr. Gillies : I can see that the pnblic generally are not satisfied that the Board has come to a conclusion upon the subject. But what I am asking now is that the Board would pass a formal resolution.. The Commissioner: We would only have to reiterate what we have previoxisly said. I will write to the District Officer on the subject. I understand that the Board absolutely refuses to take applications in certain blocks. Mr. Bastings ; That is the way I understand it. Mr. Gillies : We do not exactly know v^hat applications are meant, Those I have noted are — Blocks IV.. V., and VIE., Table Hill, and IX and X., Waitahuna East. The Commissioner : Those mentioned are the blocks reserved. APPLICATION TO LEASE. The Warden reported that there was no objection to Mr. Thomson's application to lease sections 15 and 17, block VI., Waitahuna East. The Board restricted the number of acres to 400, but applicant was applying for 650 acres. Mr. Miller : If I might be allowed to say a few words upon this application, Mr. Thomson did not hold the two sections. I think the Board, by reserving 400 acres, meant that an individual should not apply for more than that quantity at a time. According to my readiug of the Act it is not. because a man bought 400 acres he was not to bny any more than that in future. Mr. Thompson simply wanted the 250 acre 5*5 * to complete the holding. It is not true that the land is for me. Mr. Strode : Mr. Cairns's report states that the land is for you — that, in fact, it is a dummy application. I should, if that were the case, at once refuse it. Mr. Miller : T can assure the Board upon oath that such is not the case. The 400 acres held by Mr. Thomson are pastoral land. The application was refused. PREVIOUS APPLICATIONS. Mr. Gillies said there were several applications which had been lying over for some time, and he was obliged to watch as "a cat with a mouse" to see when they were" coming on. > Those he referred to were from Messrs John and William Sutheftand, John Ilos3, and John Waters. The. applications were refused, and the Board adjourned.

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