WELLINGTON LANDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 7

WELLINGTON LANDS.

. .01 , TRANSFERS. '■■ The sitting of the' Wellington Land Board was. resumed yesterday morning, Mr. James Mackenzie- (Commissioner of Crown Lands) presiding. .'' . '■: , : Tie ~ following ■ ■ transfers .were approved:; Section:'6a,. Block , 11, Mount .Cerberus, A. Jones to'-T. A.Yeoman;' Sections 9 and- 10a";'- Block V, Aobanga, 323 acres 2 roods 12 porches; -H.G. Hill to M. ■S.aob - HiS?Se&lagn / 6,ißlockst XI and XV, Whiriniki;' 3208 acres,: AY James to A. James and H." K. Purdy • Section 29. Rakautoru. V.S., Mrs; S. A. Greea tq ; "W. Hi Billinghurst; 'Section 181 a, -Block , Ij-. Aohanga, '97 r acres, S. to'>:G;. M'lvory • Section e^BJock 'XV, iWhirniakiy aid Viarete, 'James: Meehan} and D., K . Egan ■to'.J. P. Meenah;'Section! lQ,VCoromandel Grant' Settlement,' '-W.-'E. Tomlin to G. ¥. Hill; Sections 29 and 12. Block IV,iTararua, ;N. Taylorto R. Bariosh. ,;Several other , .applioations-were re-' ■served ■ for. further,; consideration.. ;\G." Bartholomew ; was' "granted a saw-' mill. site-, for milling:.timber■ taken on Orotvn lands near : Qio.;.":" :t' ' ■'. Tie' .■.commissioner •,submitted. ■ a schedule of. selectors-iin -arrear. 'with ' their payments,; who .have ■ not replied to notices or paid, 'and' it was .resolved to ask them to enow cause, why their interests should not be declared forfeited. •.:;' : ; ...; ;";•..;.,-.'• ~•:■ ,■ .-..'• ■/■ ■•' :'-. ■;[■■'' Forfeitures were declared in a num--1 per of cases.. .;■ . . ■■■■'■'.. ;';'■■ ; . ..'Several ;selectors were-granted permission to sub-let. . : . /;;;; looal. bodies , moneys. ' . ■; .Payments to local. bodies in. the Wellington land district for thirds, fourths, •and halves 'during the -year'-'ended March-31, 1910, were made as follow:—Thirds, £5270 55.: 2d;: fourths, £27 135.: 9d., halves, £1 125.; tottil *5299 lOs-lldi -Amonnts as credit of local bodies, were as follow:—Thirds, £10,779 75,.5 d.; fourths, ;£7lB 11s! Bd.; halves, £127 . 3s: • total £11.625 25.-ld. ;-. ';.'-i ■;.--. :'..-.. ..: ■■, .- '... ~, ;-. ■ At the meeting of the Land Board yesterday, the Commissioner of Drown Lands (Mr. James Mackenzie) drew attention ;to the large sum in ■ hand for which the board could not get proposals from the local bodies,; and stated that these had.been, given three months' no-! tice that, where proposals were in arrear the board would spend the thirds itself.. .-. ".;'■';•. .- ■ "...