WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1920, 20 February 1885, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

The ordinary meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held yesterday morning. Present —The Commissioner (Mr Marchant), and Messrs Beetham, M.H.R., Fitzherbert, Bunny, McCardle, and Mason.

Mr W. T. L. Travers applied for Mr J. Duncan to be allowed to pay off the balance on his deferred payment section. The chairman reported all payments to date had been received and his improvements all made as required by the Act. The request was complied with. A Mtnilur request from E. J. Hughes was also complied with. A memo was read from the UnderSecretary of Lands, stating it was not considered advisable to advertise for applications for appointment of Crown lanrl rangers. It was resolved to allow the matter to stand over. A memo was received from the UnderSecretary of Lands, stating that the Board would be informed when the Minister of Lands could receive a| deputation from the Land Board on special settlement. The memo was acknowledged. The question of offering for lease of deferred payment sections in Mangahao and Mangaone Blocks was postponed. The question of expenditure of certain sums of money on road districts in certain districts was considered. On the motion of Mr Beetham it was resolved t-> expend the following sums Tokowaru, £336; Karewarewa £6OO ; Paratuke, £800; Otamakapna and Waitapa, £2769 ; Marton-Murimutu, £7OO ; and tenders were ordered to be called for certain of these works. The Chief Surveyor's report as to layoff certain lands in the Wairarapa was agreed to. A memo was laid before the Board from the Secretary of Crown Lands, stating that the Masterton-Puketoi special settlement have selected 5000 acres east of Tiraumea river, and requesting the Board to appoint a committee to value the land. On the motion of Mr Bunny, seconded by Mr McCardle, it was resolved that the | Government be asked that the valuation in question be made at the tone the lines are cut, and that the Government be to furnish the Board with the n»mM» of the settlers belonging to the Association to whom this land and the Mangahao Block of 11,00 acres had beat allotted. It was also arranged that the names of the selectors in the Palmerston-Waitapu Association be forwarded to the Board. Mr Bunny moved and Mr Beetham seconded, that a committee be appointed oonsisting of the Commissioner, Mr fits* herbert, and the mover, to inspect the above block, and report at its earnest convenience. Carried. On the motion of Mr Bunny, it was resolved to request the Government to hand over the £ISOO for road works at Kaiwhatu to the Wauarap* East County, to be devoted to roads aa directed by the I*ads Board. The Board then adjourned.

- MABWBWOW IBBTITPTB, T»oommitt**»f V" ftiito Messrs Caaelberg (chairman), ft. aSte, Pfcp worth, Hogg,Bww«, M«ir, mm w • G» Bsizu* ■ Tlf minutes of the previous meeting wen read and confirmed. - ThaTio—wrer reported the bank hahnoa to be £5" 18a. - An aooount from King 4 0a waa pasaed for payment, amounting to £ll6a §3 for laagaaiwae and newspapers, and madiy amail acoounta wen ordered to be paid. drew attrition to the ocean of expense magaaines in Kfag and Oo'a list and moved. That the Hooae Committee be requested to prepare a Hat of the newspapers and maganneßanpjpedto the library with a view to their ealMmtim and revision, and that i report on the same be submitted at next meeting. The motion was aecondedHby Mr F»pworth and carried.

An advice waa read from Mudie A Co., of Kngland, to the eAset that the boon ordered br the Committee had been duly forwarded as far aa they cooU execute the order, and sending a list of works that had been ordered but which they were sold out of.

The Secretary in anawer to the Chairman said the catalogue of Mudie's aa marked by the Committee had been sent with the order and no copy of the books ordered had been kept. The money forwarded waa £25, but the whole of the order had not been completed, and a balance of £3 odd was left in Messrs Mudie and Co. 's hands awaiting further instructions from the Committee.

Mr Hogg said they had picked out the most expenaivo dry literature in execution of the order and altogether omitted the light literature. He did not blame the secretary for not keeping a copy of the books ordered aa the list waa only handed to him juat aa the mail waa about to dose, Mid aa it waa urgent the books should be obtained they did not want to miss the mail. From what he had been informed he looked upon Mudie and Co. as a most reliable firm, and had not the least doubt in his mind, but what they would faithfully carry out their instructions which were explicitly given in a letter by the Secretary, a copy of which had been kept. He would take care in future bo long as he had a voice in the matter, the same firm should not have the chance of repeating such a breach of faith. The chairman said he thought when he read the list of new books how scientifically the book committee had inolined. It was a most unbusiness like proceeding to forward an order without keeping a copy. It was usual for business men ordering from England to make triplicates of the order, the second copy to be sent bv the next inail and the third kept in hand. He should imagine the firm had got hold of the wrong list, as he did not consider it would answer for them aa business men to alter the order.

Mr Beard said there were only about three books in the whole lot sent that were on the list ordered, and in the list enumerated as not sent because they were sold out, there was not one that had bean ordered, and evidently a mistake had been made. The Secretary certainly did not act by the instructions of the Committee in sending the order away without keeping a copy of the books ordered. On the motion of Mr Hogg, seconded by Mr Hare, the following resolution was carried :—" That the Secretary be instructed to write to Mudie & Co., intimating that they have forwarded a consignment of books not ordered by the Committee, requesting them to refer to the original order and catalogue, and asking their advice as to what should be done with the books that have been consigned, as they embrace no works of fiction, and are utterly unsuited to our requirements." In answer to the Chairman it was elicted that the Book Committee had not met to consider the question of what action should be taken to supply Country subscribers with books as suggested at the last meeting. Instructions were given to the Book Committee to obtain particulars of the requirements of each district and report at the next meeting. The following is a list of the new bodes that have just been added to the library: Adam's English Party Leaders, Adam's Nile Valley, Alternative, Aylward's Transvaal, Arnold's Indian Poetry, Arnold's Palms and Temples, Bagenal's American Irish, Bain's J. S, Mill, Barnard's Sketches in Norway, Becker's Adventurous Lives, Belton's Random Recollections, Bell's Chapel in the Tower, Bent's Life of Garibaldi, Be ranger's Auto, Busch's Bismark, Blackburne's Irishwomen, Blake's Southern Europe, Boyle's No Man's Lands, Boyle's Legend of my Bungalow, Bridge s Lady's Travels, Dostoyeflsky's Buried Alive, Burnaby's Khiva, Burnaby's Asia Minor, Caravan Route, Carlyle's Irish Journey, Chalmer's Local Government, Clayton's Female Artists, Clayton's Female Warriors, Colville'a Ride, Coope's Prisoner of War, Cox Sleep Dream, Craik's J. Martin, Creagh's Scamper to Sebaatapol, Crow's Highways of Japan, Cummings Fiji 2 vols.. Cumin ing's Ladies Cruise, Delmard's Village Life, Dicey's England and Egypt, Dicken's Letter's, Digby's Famine Campaign, Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote, Doran's Dury Lane, Mann and Manner's, Dunfee's Free Lance Fittings, Eden's Frozen Asia, Elliot's Tall Women in Sicily, Ewald's State Papers, Fenn's How I Volunteered, Fitzgibbon's Manitoba, Fonblanque's Iceland, Fredur's Shady Places, Gordon's Burmah, Gore's Scientific Discovery. Harwood's Coming Democracy, Haworth's Road Scrapings, Heath's Where to Find Ferns. Hughe's Residence in China, Jarvia' Italian Rambles, Jenning's Childishness, etc., Joyne's Foreign Freaks of Five Friends, Joyne's Tourist in Ireland, Leland's Gypsies, Lestrango's Chelsea, Lloyd's African Church, Lockhart's Medical Missionary, Lommell's Optics, Luca's Zulus, Afegyariand, Martmeau's Heat, Maxim's by a Man of the World, Maxwell's Connaught Rangers, Miller's Greatest of the Judges, Moore's Prose and Verse, Morton's Heroes of Science, (Astronomers), MuDhall's Amazon, Myer's Ham ram Arabs, Memojowske's Siberian Pictures, Oilplant's Land of Khemi, Oliphant's Traits and Travesties, Oliphant's Duke and Scholar, Pen and Ink Sketches, Poole's Cities of Egypt, Rae's Country of the Moors, Roscoe's Elementary Science, Russia Past and Present, Russia Savage and Civilised, Smith's Brazil, Stone s New Guinea, Tolmer's Chequered Career, To the Gold Coast. Vogt's Egyptian War, Webster's House Wife, Weld s Highlands Wink's Shoemaker, Weld's Sacred Palm Lauds, With Cue Mounted Rifles, Wood's Black Forest, Young's Nyaasa, Among the Heather, Among the Hills, Amy Wynter.