H.B. LAND BOARD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 3

H.B. LAND BOARD.

'rho tnoirtlilv^ meeting of tho Hawk«?.\s Hay lia.il<J. Board was held on Friday . inoriiing. '- ' The rauger forwarded" hh valuations of sections in the Piri Piri block and. the (list riot surveyor his schema of subdivis'V.ri.— -Approved. The Board was asked to consider the question of '-examination of applicants for various lands to b;e of-fered-in December. —All members decided" to attend. The Geo. Bartholomew Co., Ltd., applied for a further extension of timbcT^cwfetin£_righta over portion of the Piri Pin "block and a letter Avaa received from tho. head office having reference thereto. — Approved. Messrs Anderson, Sons and Co., asked for further timber 1 cutting rights over' portion of the Piri Piri block and the district surveyor 1 forwarded his' report thereon. Approved. ; The -lessee of section 53, block 10, Norse-wood survey district, notified his inability to meet his next payments of rent due on January Ist, 1909i^-Not to bo pressed for payment. Oofrespondonco re the proposed exchange of lands. Piri Pin block, was received from the head office.—Exchanges to be recommended and Crown portions to be sold' to adjoining" owners. ■''■'' ; J. \V. Elliott wrote asking that a miscellaneous lease with an improvement clause bo granted to him over the" fefecrion occupied by him in tho Haiuma township.— A year to year licence* granted at rental based xipon valuations already approved. District Surveyor Brock forwarded his report on tho proposed exchange of lands To Ohu block between Lloyd and 1 Taiiscy and the Crown.—^-Ex-change to be recommended under section I'42'oi the Land Act, 1908. Tho clerk Dannevirke County Council wrote with reference to timber royalty on Piri Piri block.— -Refused. Seventeen settlers in Tamaki No. 2 block forwarded their consent to the expenditure of £100 accrued "thirds'' by the Dannevirke County Council on Smith's Road i— Approved. TRANSFERS APPROVED. Tho following transfers were approved: J. H. Sinclair to A. Sinclair and anothpr, section 3, block 2, Motuotaria ■ S.D. ; A. Gibson to H. T. Bowie, section 21, 'block 14; Waipiikurauj R. J. Witters to A. H. Greaves, section 13, block 1, Turanganui; J. Douglass to'.G. Whetstone, section, 2, block 14j Mangatahi ; J. W. Thompson to J. Worrall, section .4, block 8, Ruataniwha; W. R. Evans to P. G-. McKenzie, block 3, section 6, Man gat era ; A. Johnson to J. Sargent, sections 22 and £6, block, 5, Tauta-ne; G. H. Dean t» M. Rioxdan, section 2, block 2, Tahoraiti; N. McKimnon (as executor) to N. McKinnon, small grazing run 8, block 10, AVaihaia; G. S. Ballantyne to W. Bly, section 18, block 4, Woodville; J. W. Baker to J. M. Smith, section 2, block 14, Takapau; F. A. Ings to T. Ingram, section 5, block 10, Takapau; J. and F. Rosenbeck to F. M. Haselden, section 2, block 15, Mangatoro. GENERAL^ The proposed expenditure of the following -accrued "thirds" and "fourths" was approved: Dannevirke County Council £1403 14s 3d, Hawke's Bay County Council £38 3s 2d, Cook County Council £415 17s Bd. Tho Commissioner was empowered to' accept offer for woolshed on tho To Aral settlement.