THE LAND BOARD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1066, 8 May 1890, Page 3

THE LAND BOARD.

By Electric Telegraph,

(BY OUR SPECIAL COR RESPOXDEXT.)

. ■-/' Dunedin, May 8. • At the Land Board Messrs. Kenyou and Hosking (on behalf of David M' Cready and \\\ Coomhes, hal.leisof a coal mining lease for section 7. block v.,-Kyel.um) apt.lied to Sjirrcm.er the lea*e, tlieie being, mr coal ou the section and neither oi the holder? receiving a shilling of benefit, out of the [ami. —License cancelled, as the Board were satisfied no coal had been found on the-section. - J. .Vr ulholland, of Ewcliurii, applied for a lease of the-village reserve in block 11., Maniototo, at 4u per acre Declined Messrs. Donald lieid and Co. (m behalf of R. and S. Inder) applied for a grazing right; cnerthe village reserve of 457 acres adjoiul.i section 7, block n., Maniototo, on coalition of destroying the rabbits thereon.— Application declined. Carlaw Smith, Chairman of the Progress Committee, Kenthorn, wrote, stating that tlie following resolution had been passed ac a meeting held chare . '• That the Chairman write to the Commissioner of Crown Lands : asking him to put up for sale by auction town sections which have been taken up under business liceuses, drawing attention to. the fact that valuable improvements have been effected on a great-many of them. There was a strong feeling at Neathorn that the time had arrived when the town sections should be.offered for sale by public auction, the amount of improvements oeing valuedac from LIO,OOO to L 12.000. Xhi District Surveyor appended a note to the effect that the value of improvements shows the approximate cost of the bn ildiugs erected and not- the actual selliug value of the properties. 1 he matter was ordered to staud over for further consideration.