WESTLAND LAND BOARD MEETS: NEW APPLICATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1947, Page 3

WESTLAND LAND BOARD MEETS: NEW APPLICATIONS

A number of applications for laud, timber-cutting rights and transfers, were dealt with by the ' Westland Land Board which sat at Hokitika on Wednesday. The board approved of the following applications, unless otherwise stated:—

J. Keenan, for a temporary grazing licence over an area of half an acre at the junction of the Main South Road and Governor’s Terrace (Rimu Township). W. E. Whiley for a licence to cut and remove flax from Hokitika riverbed (2750 acres). • Mrs D. A. Johnson, 1 rood, Block 3, Waimea S.D.—Refused. Timber Licences

Messrs Donaldson (Ngahere) Ltd, for a permit over 13 acres Block XI, Mawheranui S.D. . 4 Frederick Fletcher for a licence to cut and remove mining timber from an area of Crown Land being part of sections 2413, 2414, Block VI. D. G. Boraman for the cutting rights over an area of 250 acres, Block X, Waimea S.D. H. Mason’s application for a licence to cut silver pine from Part Sec. 2544, Block VII, Waimea S.D., was withdrawn in favour of Kitchener Reynolds. Transfer And Sub-leases Section 6. Block XIV, town of Runanga (36 perches) from Isabel M. Marshall, D. W. Urwin and J. H. Marshall to Ernest Albert Smith. 8,500 acres Haast and Waita S.D.s from W. D. Nolan to W. D. Nolan jun, R. P., E. J., D. J., and K. Nolan. Runs 77 and 69, Blacks, VI, IX, X, XI and XV Cascade (6400 acres) from W. D. Nolan jun, R. P. Nolan, and E. J., Nolan to W. D. Nolan sen. Crown land in Block I, Ahaura S.D. (107 acres) from the Public Trustee in estate Margaret Crysell to Gustav Samuel Burrows.

Section 2494, Block XIV, Okuru from the Public Trustee in estate Thomas Wanless Bruce to Norman Alexander Wallis.

Crown Land, 1 acre, Block XII, Waimea S.D.—McGrath and Watson, sawmillers of Kumara, were granted a renewal for a further three years of a lease at 10s p.a, Reserve 1058, Block XVI, Greymouth (2 acres 1 rood 23 perches). Staratford Blair and Co Ltd, who held a T.G.L. over the area nominated. John Malone as being agreeable to take it over.