WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 218, 13 September 1878, Page 5

WASTE LANDS BO ARD.

Wednesday, September 11. Present — Messrs Maitland (Chairman), Clark, Bastings, and Bradshaw. ' Mr Heid, on behalf of Mr Nugent Wood, applied to purchase section 5, bioik 111-., Waikaia. — Adjourned for a 'week. The following applications for deferred payment licenses were ordered to issue : — ■ Robiua Smith, section 17, block VIII. , ToicTois ; Lawrence Gilliespie, section 15, block IX. , Chatton ; and Thomas Fraser, section 5, block XII. , Rock and Pillar district. Hanger Campbell reported, upon W. K-. M'Kenzie's application to purchase deferred payment section 23, block VIII., Toi-Tois, under section 54 of the Act of 1872. He recommended that the appli>cation be granted, as the condition had been complied with.— Approved. Messrs Somervillo, M'Keraie., Brown, and others wrote that the land applied for by Mr T. Robertson, being section 45, block 1., Warepa, is the only piece of valuable bush for the use of the settlers, to which the road had been recently ! opened. They asked that no injustice should be done the settlers in dealing with the matter. — Adjourned for Ranger's re"port. The Secretary to the Waipahi Progress Committee accepted the oiier of section 52, block VII., Waipahi, as a site fora cemetery. — Noted. Messrs Gillies, Street, and Hislop, for Messrs A. and J. Rankin and John Kay, applied for a lease of 20 acres of section 29, block VI. , Waikaka, as a lignite area. — Adjourned for one week. Mr J. A. Mooney, for Mr J. A. Steel, applied to purchase section 15, block X. , Glenkonich, taken on deferred payments and subsequently abandoned, and that it be offered at auction at £1 per acre.— Declined. Ranger Hnghan reported on the application of Mr R, Robson for scrip under the Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Acts of 1871 and 1872, recommending that scrip to the extent of £90 be granted; to him.—- Recommended in accordance, with Ranger's report. -„;■. Mr A. C. Begg, for Jackman and Inglis, applied to cancel their timber lease over sections, 13 and li, block 11. , Glenomaru, and to purchase ten acres of land around. —To be sold by auction at the upset price of 20s per acre, and £150 to be added for," improving their dwelling. -^RangerHughah > reported that the applicants, had. effected . very little in the way of improvements. . MrD. Reid, on benaif of l&r 'I^jfris^ requested that a .Toad line be' reSorde^tv through the railway "reserve f tb conDe^i;"*^ section; s5 V block V^;^Wafpahi^^liht thl»l"f J J . faU'way .station.-^^ '„<- > - iijrvey of ro^;mi;qi^^pni7^i^.^kQ;|y^^f^ of same being recorded. ' r >.; ,■. ,: V , >-^