TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 6

TARANAKI LAND BOARD.

The following was among the business dealt with at the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Land Board at New Plymouth on Wednesday:— The following applications for land were approved: Section 1, block X., Mahoe, 529 acres, 0.R.P., Terence Reardon; section 5, block XL, Mahoe, 717 acres 0.R.P., M. F. Ryan. The following transfers and subleases were approved: Sections 531 and 533, New Plymouth,. 2 acres 0 rood 2 perches, S.A. Johnston to R. T. Bullock; section 46, block VI., Ngaire S.D., 117 acres 3 roods 0 perches, M. A. Kenny to A. McKenzie; section 19, New- Plymouth, 36 ac-xes 0 rood 18 perches, W." F. McAllum to J. H. Sellers; section 47, block XL, Ngaire S.D., 166 acres, Robert Palmer to Darcy May; section 16, block 111., Omona, 40 acres (approx.), section $, block VII., 59 acres (approx.), J. W. Gedge to S. H. James; section 1, block IV., Hawera S.D., 200 acres, A. T. Peters to C. Washer and S. V. Washer; section 96, block X., P.ouatu, 197 acres 3 roods 33 perches, section 95. block X.. Pouatu, 36 acres, P. E. Cleland to Hugh Cleland, N. R. Cleland, and F. E. Cleland; section 6, block IX., Pouatu S.D., 1411 acres 2 roods 24 perches, H. W. Cleland to F. E. Cleland; section 3, block VIII., Omona S.D., 1397 acres, E. P. Gould to E. P. Gould and N. H. Arden.

Patea County Council "thirds" proposal for expenditure of £89 3s lld, iMoturoa Road Board "thirds" proposals for expenditure of £1 13s lOd, and Wairoa Road Board "thirds" proposals for expenditure of £16 6s 6d were all anorbved.

Tbe Assistant-Under-Socretary for Lands forwarded'an opinion from the Crown Law officer as to the power of the Land Board to accept surrender of leases of education reserves. —Received.

Five applications for consents to mortgage were granted, subject to the usual conditions.

The Stratford Courty engineer, with Mrs J. Weybourne, lessee of E.R., section 10, Wanganui district, waited on the Board with regard to the council's authority to remove metal from the holding for public purposes. The chairman (Mr Bullard) explained the position, pointing out that no lessee had the right to dispose of metal or gravel by way of royalty or sale, as being a breach of the implied covenant in the lease against "waste," and that any royalty on that account would be claimed by the Department for the Endowment Fund.