WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Clutha Leader, Issue 221, 4 October 1878, Page 5

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

The ordinary weekly meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held yesterday. Present :— Mr J. P. Maifcland (Chief Commissioner), and Mes9rs Clark and Bradshaw. TABLE HILL. Mesais Connell and Moodie, on behalf of George Anderson, applied to have section 28, block VI, Table Hill district, put up to auction at 20a per acre. —Granted. EAST GORE. A petition, signed by about twenty residents of East Gore and suburbs, was presented. It prayed that block XIX in that township be reserved for recreation purposes. The block, which consists of about 30 acres of suburban land, has been advertised to be put up to auction, and the petitioners sought to have it with drawn'and devoted to' recreation purposes,' It was stated that there was no public reserve in the town, nor had provision of any description been made for the ; recreation of the inhabitants.". ' ■ ' .'■ -''■■ "'--■ ■'• ■ •••■' ■'•' "■= ... •- Mr Turnbull stated that a deputation from East Gore had been appointed to wait on the Board in reference to the subject, but he presumed that, in consequence of the floods, they had been unable to attend. - After considering the matterj the Board were of opinion that there could be no harm in withdrawing the block from sale at present, but whether the Government would grant the prayer of the petitioners was another question. It appeared to them that the block was eminently suitable for the purpose to which it was Bought to devote it. They accordingly decided to withdraw it from sale,' and to recommend the Government to make it a public reserve as requested. LAND NEAR .MUSEUM BESERYEJ. A memo, of the Chief Surveyor was read relative to a request by Messrs Donald Reid and Co., on behalf of Mr W. St. Paul Gellibrand, for four year 3' lease of Run 20,- situated between Run 218 and the Museum Reserve. '<■- It was decided to recommend the Government to offer portion of the run at auction, in accordance with the Chief, Surveyor's memo., for a term of years, to expire on the sth September, 1882. ■ • PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS. ' ; Messrs Donald Reid and Co., on behalf of Mr Gellibrand, applied to be allowed to take up 640 acres, each of leases 218 and '■ 121 A respectively, in lieu of pre-emptive rights which had not been exercised. The Chairman said he found that the usual notice with respect to the exercising of preemptive rights had been served on the agents ,of Mr Gellibrand. The' Board was riot disposed to grant the application. ' Refused accordingly. * '-•■'-• TOI TOIS. The same firm applied, for Mr' H. Carswell, for a re-hearing of his application to purchase 600 acres, block I, Toi Tois district. •: The Chairman remarked - that this matter, came before the Board on the 18th ult., and the ground on which the application was then refused was that the Bpard had got into a great deal of trouble with the public in consequence of having received applications of this kind before surveys were completed. The district in question was still under : survey, which would not be finished for three or four months. Under the circumstances the Board refused the application. ' : < „ ' : .BUNS 177 AND 257. - ■ .; Oh behalf of Mr Hugh Calder and others, Messrs Donald Reid and Co. requested that 15,000 acres of land on Runs 177 and 257 might be opened for sale. ; ; ~ ■•■■■■■ i.<.., „. Postponed for a week. ' ■ - , , ; ' PEMBROKE. - - ; '•'-■ - '■ , ; .Messrs Gillies, Street, and Hislop asked for a rehearing of their appliuation on ' : behalf of Messrs/RusselVEwing, 'and Co:; for a jetty site at Pembroke. ' ; lli; ■" •-■-.';.':;-, .- j; ■:;.,•..'.,.), „ "Mr Gillies said' this 1 master' engaged the. attention of th& Board-some three weeks ago,when; it .was , postponed, f^or,. a; .report by the' Ranger. At that time the, Board appeared inclined to grant, the request^ but. last 'week . he was astonished to see by , the newspapers that the subject had been disposed of in ids absence. - . The Chairman said it was entirely an over-: Bight that Mr Gillies had not been informed that the matter would come before the Board last weekLicense to be granted in terms of former resolution, except, that right is, to, be re&erved to take a road line through the area for public purposes. . . BANGER HUGHAN'S REPORT. ; Ranger Hugban reported on the undermen-, tioned applications for leases under section 54 of the Land Act of 1872:— John Taylor, section 5, block IV, KuriwWj and'James'Macandrew, sections 39, 62, and 64, block VII, Waipabi — Approved. OTEMATATA. Mr William Grant Monro applied for 20 acres of rural land on Run 243, Otematata, andforwarded runholders' consent to purchase, r— Approved, subject to survey. MOONLIGHT FLAT.,. ' Mr G. E. Carltbn, for himself aiid other de-ferred-payment purchasers of land at Moonlight Flat on the 21st ult., requested that the period for which rents should be charged on their lands should date from, the Ist July, 1879. — Granted. - • „ • FOREST TREES PLANTING ACT. It was decided to recommend the Government to issue scrip under the Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act to Mr G; F. Poynter. ; ; , . WTNDHAM. -„'•".'". '.;■.,- Mr J.K. Logan, Inspector of Telegraphs, requested that sections 31 and 32, block XTI, Wyndham township, be reserved as a site for a telegraph office.— Granted; ; ; . , , ,'■--,';■'-{ - „ , ■ . ' " ■■-. ': ■.■■■ ,■ WAITAHUirA.; ..'."'-,■■ V. V. i ' ■ ;'- -- An application, /was received, from,^Messrs Fergusson and Thomson, on behilf of . ;'Mr.: W,. ; - Trimble; to purchase two! and- a-balf acres/ included in .residence iarea.;now numbered sec-, tion : 4o, block ; X, Wai tah una, and a memo. ,was received from the District Officer at .Lawrence^: recommending that the same be offered, at auction at L 4 per acre, with, valuation added!;— To' be putup at' L4^ with LlOfr valuation/ added*, '-■ ,':.<■>.■.<'}; •--: • <r. ,TUAPEKA ..EAST.'" .j ;,;:•, ",-. u \ .] .-\p"': . -;-Mesers Fergusson and Thomsoareauested.jOn; behalf of . Mr. W.;Ga«coigne v .tpjDiircbye' ;'onel -acr«s,' :- included Jn : residence- area afc T Tuapel£a East, .numbered- -section c7P};,biqck7X^jTo be 1 put -up at L3;per acrejiiwith Lj|£/ya^uai]pn^ ■-•l'i"i^ i-j. The f6Ubwjrig^ol.dr.minijag.ilea3eß 3werßA»p-,' proved :r-rJpseph ; Sullivan/isectiOT;|r^B,;4blpclt :block:£XlX^^^^yT^gf^^i^(p

".■"* — -'- '•.-'■ 'AORIbUI/rORAIi -LKABE. ?- ; ' :-. ; .y " „-.MK,,.A..D,^Bell_surrendere(l his agricultural t lease of section 14y block-V-Hy Waibemo, :f or :I '' ;cuj collation. , Laudtojbpdeclaredopenforaelec- ; tioi}. ,';,' - ' .' *_.'"*"., r . '-"7"^ ' : '!" ".;■" '- '. "-'~ ■'■ r - : ~' : '' '' I Jffr'Kidd applied foV agricultural lease of sectiop IP, ; block Xll,, : 'Bendi^b district, under ' clause ,66. of": the Mine's" Act of/ 187.7. — Declined.; : "-%".," ';"' ,■';.'''"'; ' ."'■ '.";v ' ' .The Board then ad jpnrnecU";' .'.'*'' : :