WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1786, 22 November 1887, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

The Waste Lands Board met on-Mon-day. Present — The Commissioner of Crown Lands (in the chair), Messrs. Cowern, Kelly, Livingston, Syme, and Standish. TRANSFERS. The board granted the following transfers of deferred payment lands : — H. P. Smith, section 28, block 5, Ngaire, to Hugh Dixon ; R. Coxhead, section 1, block 5, Waimate, to Wiliiam Coxhead. WILL RECOVER. Thp board decided, in connection with a letter from Mr. E. Li. Barton, solicitor, ofHawera, that proceeding' be taken for tb« recovery of sections held by Winser and Quinlivan. The selections are section 24, block 12, and section 78, block 11, Kaupokooui. NGAIRE ROAD BOARD. The Ngaire Eoad Board forwarded plan of proposod expenditure of deferred payment thirds. The plan was referred to the Crown Lands Banger. COMPLAINT. Messrs. Clarke and Moffatt, Hawera, complained that, owing to the Eotokari road not being cleared, they were unable to make any improvements on section 11, block 15, Ngaire. The board bad no funds for the work, but the matter has been referred to the Government. SATISFACTORY. The ranger reported on the improvements to section 77, Eltham village, held by Oliver Robinson. The board are satisfied^the improvements are completed. WAIMATE ROAD BOARD. The Crown Lands Ranger reported on the schedule ot proposed expenditure of deferred payment moneys by the Waimate Eoad Board. Mr. Robinson stated that lately a difficulty has arisen which, he fears, will necessitate the revision of the whole schedule. By the passing of the new Counties Act, county councils have to take charge of all county roads, and are, therefore, entitled to deferred payment and perpetual lease thirds from lands which front on county roads. At present it is not decided which are the county roads in the Waimate district, and until this is decided all moneys accruing lroni deferred payment and perpetual lease lands fronting on to the roads in dispute and from the Ist January last, must be impounded until the extent of the county roads are defined. LANDS FOE SALE. Mr. Eobinson reported on the works required to open up Crown lands for sale during the ensuing year. The lands likely to be opened up are those lying eastward of the Waitara river in the Huiroa and Ng-atimaru snrvey districts ; those JyiDg eastward of the Mangimangi stream in the Ngaire survey district ; those lying inland of Mokoia and Wuakamara ; and the lands in Block XI., Opunake, and Block IX., Kaupokonui, formerly held back from sale as a police special settlement, and from which the reservation has been withdrawn. The total cost of road work in opening up these lands would be £15,010, of which i 7400 would be for metalling, or for work in connection with metalling. Mr. A. Proudlock, a settler north ot the Eltham road, complained, at the request of other settlers, of the want pf a road to open up lands m the vicinity of bis holding. He had placed himself and family on his selection, in obedience to the terms of lease, on tho promise given by the Minister of Lands that a road should be made so that a buggy could be driven from Eltham to Opunake during last summer. Mr. Proudlock continues : — '• But, do I "We were only to have five miles of it (the road) ; then, even this portion was afterwards abandoned." Mr. Standish moved — "That a copy > of the report be forwarded to the Government, with a recommendation that the works mentioned therein be carried out, and that a copy of Mr. Proudlock 'e letter be attached to fcbe report." Carried. Mr. Cowern moved, "That, in the interests of settlement, it is desirable that those unsold Crown lands lying in the vicinity of New Plymouth, Hawera, and Patea should be advertised in the local papers circulating in those districts, and that the Government be requested to authorise an arrangement being made with the papers for that purpose." — News.