THE LAND BOARD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 17 April 1890, Page 3

THE LAND BOARD.

P>r Electric Telegraph. (BY OURSPECIALCORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, April 17. At the Land Board meeting, the salesman submitted for the consideration of the Board a list of perpetual lease and deferred payment licenses. The ranger, in reporting upon their claims for re-valuation, stated they were not complying with the conditions under which they held the land: — Josiah Darlington, section 3, block hi., Poolburn, not residing; Robert Love, section 5, block xi., Poolburn, not residing; Thomas Neville, section i., block xv., Blackstone, sections 7 and 8, block in., Poolburn, not residing and no cultivation ; John Dundas, section 14, block in., Poolburn, not residing and no cultivation ; Helen Sloan, section 13, block ill., Poolburn, not residing and no cultivation.—lt was decided that the settlers mentioned should be informed, along with a notice of the proposed reduction, that the Board would not recommend for approval of the Minister any reduction until the conditions of occupation were complied with. The ranger having inspected the improvements of John Nolan on section 13, block v., and of E. O'Connell, on section 8, block 11., Strath-Taieri, stated that deduction for depreciation should be made in the former casefrom £745 17s to £629 4s, and in the latter from £359 10s to £298 10s.—The reduced valuations were approved, and the upset in Nolan's case reduced to Is per acre and in O'Connell's to Is 6d. The Chairman of "Waihemo County Council, replying to a communication from the Board with regard to hi 3 application thattheroadshould be made through section 1, block viii, Highlay district, under section 502 of the Land Act, ISBS, asked that a survey of the road in question should not be insisted upon, as all requirements of the case would be met by the supplying of a sufficiently accurate sketch of the proposed line as laid down by the County Council to the Chief Surveyor to state whether a survey was necessary.