TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 65, 24 November 1880, Page 3

TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

(FROM OUR REPORTER.)

The Board met on Monday at 11 a.m. j Present— Messrs. C. D. "Whitcombe (Chief i Commissioner, in the chair), Kelly, Syme, Crompton, and Standish. WEST COAST LAND DISTBICT. Mr. Kelly asked whether any communication had been received with reference to the administration of deferred payment lands in the West Coast district ? Tne <7&a£rmaa replied bhab he h&& forwarded the resolution passed by the .Board at a previous meeting, stating that it could not, under the existing provisions of the Land Act, take the initiative in any matter within the West Coast Land District, but that it would be happy to give advice on any case brought before it, leaving Captain Wray to carry out any recommendations which the Board might make, should ho think proper. Since then, he had received no flnSWfey, and therefore he concluded that the Department was satisfied with the action of the board. ELTHAM VILLAGE. A letter was read from T. Humphries, Chief Surveyor, stating that at present there are no surveys in hand in the TaranaM district. The insbrucbionß of the board, to cut up land into 10-aere sections adioining the Elthani village, would be carried out at an early date. MIDHIBST SPECIAL SETTLEMENT. A. Cracroft Fookes requested that a Crown grant might be issued forthwith to Joseph Scher. r, and enclosing a certificate in accordance with clause 12 of the afpeenzenb re Mitlhii'st Special Settlement. "You are already aware (wrote Mr. Fookes) that the conditions contained in clause 11 of the agreement have been fulfilled to a sufficient extent to warrant this application. Clause 11 is as follows : I — ' The contractor shall be entitled to require the Governor to issue Crown grants after the rate of one acre for eveiy 20s. paid on account of purchase money. No claim for a grant shall he made for less 1 than 50 acres at o»e tilO&, nnlftSS With the ! consent o£ the hoard ; anh. no grant shall be issued unless the board shall certify that the contractor has expended at least j£'2sO in making and* constructing roads through the land ; nor shall . grants be issued in excess of 100 acres for every expended by the contractor in constructing roads through the land, as hereinafter provided." Grants shall' not be issued otherwise to settlers, except for the' 400 acres which the contractor is entitled to take up for his own use.' " The . Chairman stated, in reply to Mr. Standieh, that the whole of the i-2,000, with the exception of £4S, had been expended on the Midhirst road. Mr. Kelly proposed, and Mr. Sfcandish seconded, "That the application of Mr. Fookes be acceded to." — Carried.

MISTAKE IN PEGGING OFF SECTIONS.

Joseph George, Inglewood, applied to the board to have a mistake rectified in pegging off sections 225 and 226, Moa. Mr. Eobinson (ranger) said that Mr. Humphries had promised to see to the matter.

On the motion of Mr. Standish, seconded by Mr. Syme* the mistake was brhereh to be' rectified as soon as possible. Charles Ayling, Normanby, applied to the board for section 28, block VI., Ngaire district, containing 81a. Or. 16p., at .£l lss ( on deferred payments, and enclosing Immigration Land Orders, valued at ±'40, in payment of the yearly instalments, up to that amount. — Kequest complied with. There was no other business transacted, and the- meeting adjourneh at 11.80.

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