CANTERBURY LAND BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 9

CANTERBURY LAND BOARD.

♦ A meeting of the Canterbury Land Board was held yesterday, thero being present .—Messrs T. N. Brodrick (Commissioner), J. Leahy, J. Stevenson, J. Gibson, and R. Macaulay. TRANSFERS. Tho following transfers were approved:— * ''._,. M.0.1.'805, lot 6, Hanmer Plains reserve, 11a _r 34p, sub-leaso of part Duncan Rutherford to Arthur Percival Smith, of Otira, storekeeper. L.-iu-p. 1419, lot 15, Annan Settlement, IW7 acres, Annie Durbar to her husband, Peter Dunbar, of Waiau, slieepfarmer. _._ , , L.-in-p. 1069, lot 19, Tamat Hamlet, 2 acres, John Reid to James Galletly, of Rangiora, labourer. M.0.1. 133, reserve 152, at .Vainu:, 10 acres, Win. Mackay to Henry Niblctt, of Island Bay, farmer. Run N. 22, Rakaia river, rear Highbank, _S0 acres, Philip C. TliioJkeld to Se'iina Ann Drumniond, wife of Peter DTiiinmond, the younger, of Highbanii, farmer. M.0.1. 1411, part of Orari riverbed, 52 acres, William Stewart to Chas. Jas. Neville, of Clandeboye, farmer. Pastoral runs Nos. 83, 218-9. and part 220, Rboborough Downs, <>3.4.2} acre., Murdo Math_son (of part interest) to Donald Peter Mcßac, of Rboborough Downs, sheepfarmer. Consideration of tha application for transfer of renewable- lease No. 187, lot 2, Kohika No. 2 Settlement, 14-vj. 2r 31p, Donald McLachlan to Thos. Uriah Cooper, of Dunedin, builder, was postponed for further enquiry. .MISCELLANEOUS. The successful applications at the ballot held on November 25th for sections iv the Meadows Settlement, near Timaru, were approved. The following applications for renewable leases were also considered and granted :—Thos. Walter Brown, s. 11, blk. IX., 11 acres, Meadows; Geo. Hy. Cleaver, s. 10, blk. V., 20 acres, Stone V.S.; and Alfred Chas. Home, s. 2, blk. 111., 3a 2r 30p, Buddo. The proposals by the Amuri County Council and the I'pper Ashburton Road Board for expenditure of thirds were approved, except as regards a .section near Hanmer Springs, to which a branch road had not yet been constructed. In connection with re-dealing with expiring leases of portions of Darfiek: township, it was resolved that unsoid sections be, offered for cash sale at auetic.n before any further arrangements for leasing are made.