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File. Date. From To Subject. i420/67 i420/33 >420/61a i420/6lB 1420/9 i420/10 i420/53 1384/361 26/7/04 21/7/04 4/8/04 10/8/04 2/6/04 12/7/04 12/7/04 3/8/04 Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands Commissioner of Crown Lands Surveyor-General Commissioner of Crown Lands Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands Surveyor-General Commissioner of Crown Lands Surveyor-General Board's approval only being provisional, subsection (15), section 49, of Act applies, and land remains open without readvertising. Pointing out that selectors who do not get possession of their holdings until the 1st October, 1904, urge that rent should only commence from that date, and not the 1st July as advertised in pamphlet. States that subsection (2), section 5, of the regulations and subsection (18) of section 89 of the Act govern the matter. Selectors who were unwilling to be debited with rental from the 1st July, 1904, should have refrained from making their applications until after that date. Asking if necessary to summon applicants for unopposed sections living out of district for examination in cases where questions on form answered and declarations satisfactory. Applicants in position quoted need not attend for examination. Section 49, subsection (14), sub-subsection (d), gives Board power to dispense with personal attendance. Quoting case of three new arrivals in colony who desire to select two sections (contiguous) in the three names as their interests are one, and asking if the Hon. the Minister will agree to the issue of one lease for same. Stating that Act and present regulations do not empower Board to issue one lease in all three names for two sections, but on account of poorness of one of the sections the Board might waive personal residence on it if lessee lived on adjoining leasehold with his friends. Asks for instruction re return of deposits to applicants unsuccessful in ballot for the section in group which they required and for interpretation of Regulation 18 in pamphlet. Cannot give authoritative opinion re Regulation 18 in absence of Minister, but believe if sections have been classified there will be no difficulty in Board arranging matter. Stating case of applicants, R. J. Maisey and sons, who purpose applying for Sections 26, 27, and 27a, Matamata, but owing to poorness of land are not in a position to take up residence at once, and asks if Minister will waive personal residence for four or five years. Conveying Minister's approval of Mr. Maisey being granted Sections 26,27, 27a, with exemption from residence for four years under section 142, " The Land Act, 1892." Stating that particulars furnished to Sur-veyor-General in letter of the 29th August, 1904, re R. J. Maisey are scarcely correct. The applicants are his wife, son, and self, and his means are in excess of the proportion prescribed under the regulations. Points out that the sections are not " poor man's " land, and will require even more means than Mr. Maisey and family have to fully develop the sections. Asks if Minister will approve of the three applications and still allow the four years' exemption under altered circumstances. Conveying Minister's approval of Maisey's three applications, and relaxing personal residence for four years under section 143, subsection (4), of "The Land Act, 1892." Resolved to approve of applications from Maisey and family (three) for Sections 26, 27, and 27a, Matamata, 1384/361 2/6/04 Surveyor-General Commissioner of Crown Lands 1459/1.. 29/8/04 Commissioner of Crown Lands Surveyor-General 4JIAF11UM Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands 1459/2.. 13/9/04 1/10/04 Commissioner of Crown Lands Under-Secretary 1459/4.. I 1459/5.. 13/10/04 Under-Secretary Commissioner of Crown Lands 28/10/04 Land Board t