WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 428, 23 January 1875, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

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The ordinary weekly meeting of the Board was held on Wednesday morning, the following members being present : — The Chief Commissioner , (in the chair), Messrs, Bastings, Butterworth, D. Reid, and Strode. ABANDONMENT OF DEFERRED PAYMENT SECTIONS. Mr. Alex. Tolmie requested that he might be allowed to abandon sections 32 and 33, block VII., Waipahee District, taken up undei the deferred payment system, and enquired whether he would be recompensed for improvements by the next selector. The Board were of opinion that they had no power to act in this case. PBE-EMPTITE EIGHT ON BUN NO. 239. A report was received from the District Land Officer at Clyde on Mr. Henry Campbell's application for a pre-emptive right of 548 acres on run 239. It was resolved that an agricultural lease should be granted. DALHOUBIE TOWNSHIP EESBBVE. A report was received from the District Land Officer at Lawrence, on Mr. Thomas Jamieson's application to purchase 200 acres of the northern portion of the Dalhousie Township Reserve. The Board resolved to refuse the application. PBOTEST AGAINST SALE OF LABGB BLOCKS IN • BEAUMONT HUNDBED. A letteF signed John Gamble, Beaumont, and > -

dated January 14th 1875, -was read. The writer said he took the liberty of letting the the Chief Commissioner know that the small block of land lately thrown open at the Beaumont was nearly all taken up by Mr R. Lancaster on the dummy system. Mr Lancaster took up 600 acres in block 1., and now he has taken up 600 mote m the last small block. The writer stated that Mr Lancaster " was making a trade of it, and all for Mr. Clarke;" and he hoped the Chief Commissioner would stop this kind of thing, or the people at the Beaumont would soon be blocked up. He had written to the Warden, but it was of no use ; and he had also written to the Board before. If the same thing was to be carried on they would have to write to the General Government to stop the dummy system. Mr. Lancaster had sold the last 600 acres to Mr Joseph Clarke, at £4 per acre, and it was sold before being surveyed. The Board referred the letter to the District Land Officer for his opinion. APPLICATIONS TO PURCHASE. The following applications for the purchase of land were approved:— Richard Lancaster, sections 13 and 14, block 111., Beaumont; William Smith, section 27, block 11., Tuapeka West ; Daniel Stevenson, section 13, block VII., Waitahuna East. ' APPPICATIONS TOE EXCHANGE. Mr. Timothy Growlers application for an exchange of section 22, block IV., Tuapeka Eaofc, -svns refused. The following applications were approved : — Timothy Sheehy, section 37, block 111., Benger ; James Ogilvie, sections 30 and 66, block VI., Shotover. AGRICULTURAL LEASE. The following application for an agricultural lease was approved : — James Yeulett, section 4, block XXL, Shotover. NEW HUNDREDS— WAIKAKA. A minute was received from the Executive Council approving of the following resolution: — That sections 26, 27, 30, and 31, block 11., Waikaka, be withdrawn from sale and set apart as lands of special value, tho land being of superior quality, and being contiguous to deferred payment areas, river frontage, and and Mam South Railway ; that the upset price be 40s per acre, and that it be sold at auction on the Ist day of March 1875 ; that the unsurveyed portion of the Hundred be withdrawn from sale, pending tho completion of the survey, and that sections 1 to 6 inclusive, block 11., Chatto, and sections 9 to 25 inclusive, 28, 29, and 32, block 11., Waikaka, be at present withdrawn from sale, and advertised open for application on and after the Ist day of March, 1875. The Board then adjourned for a week.