LAND BOARD.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 87, 13 April 1894, Page 2

LAND BOARD.

The Land Board met at 10 a.m. to-day. Present — '1 he Oommiasioner (Mr. J H. Baker), Messrs. Piram and Hogg, M's.H.R , ' and Mr. Fisher. ) THE MOMOHAKt DIFFICULT! 1 . i The Board immediately went into Com- , mittee with reference to tho differenoe with ) the Lands Department respecting the man- , ncr in which the Momohaki Village Settlei ment plans had been drawn up without consulting it, and subsequently adjourned as a deputation to the Minister for Lands, with whom the matter was very fully discussed. 3 At noon the membors^returned, and tho Board resumed its meeting, and it was resolved—" That the deputation from the i Land Hoard having fully discussed with Ihe Minister for Lands tho position of tbe applicants for Momobuki Village t ettlement secg tions under the Order-in-Conncil of 19th February, 'lß94, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 22nd of lhat month, now determines to consider tbn applications put in on 27th February, and those subsequently put in, on their merits ; this decision being based on the opinion given to the Minister " by the Solicitor-General." Tbe various applications were then oon- ,* sidered. * The Commissioner said the euccesuftl 9 applicant at the first ballot was Thomas Ellis, licensee of a hotel at Waverley, who contended that ho could make the application legally as everything in his hotel was made over to his wife. Mr Baker was not clear as to tho legality of the position. Mr. Piraui said that as licensee of the hotel he must be the occupier under the Licensing Act. It was deeded to ask for further information. The following applications were f approved : — Edmund Burke, Whenuakura, section 2a ; Christian Sobmdt, Marton, section 3a ; Samuel Dunn Johnston, Waverley, section 7a ; Albe-t Anderson, Palmers ton North, section ß; Eose Mason, Waverley, section 11a ; John Barry, Normanby, section 9 ; Ruddock and Watts, Wellington, section . 11 A ; William Stewart, Turakina Valley, section 4a ; Ellen Hughes (a married woman), section sa. This lett one section unapplied for. The acceptance of Ruddock and Watts' application for section 11a was mode subject to their not desiring to wuit their chance of taking tbe section for which Thomas Ellis had been sucoessfnl at the ballot, and for which they had already applied, in case of its being decided that a hotel keeper , could not hold the section. ; Apropos of the application of Mrs. Hughes, ; tho Commissioner said he had been under i the impression that a married woman could i only become owner and not lessee under , the existing land laws, bnt a decision i just given in Dunedin was to the effect that i a married woman could become a lessee. , I Left sitting.]