LAND BOARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 2

LAND BOARD

YESTERDAY’S MEETING. APPLICATIONS 'AND TRANSFERS GRANTED. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Land Board, Mr G. H. M. McClure (Commissioner of Crown Lands) presided, those also present being Messrs J. Dawson, J. Georgetti, H. T. Ellingham, and C. Mclntyre. The Commissioner reported the reappointment of Mr McIntyre as a member of the board. The following applications for land were approved Section 5, block 11, Rdtarike; 6J acres, - miscellaneous tenure, Taylor Paul, rental £1 per month. Section 11, block 3, Tiriraukawa, 43 acres, miscellaneous, Oscar Bowling; annual rental, £l4.

200 Acres approximately, miscellaneous, W. 11. Toland, L. W. Wiles and C. D. Crighton. Section 2, Village of Kohanga, 10 acres, cash, John Charles Morgan; capital value, .£l6O. Section 4, Makowai Settlement, 63) acres, S.T.L., Walter Fifield Reeve; capital value £3130, annual rental £l4O 17s. Section 13, Moroa Settlement, 65 acres, S.T.L., John C. Jamieson; capital value £3986, annual rental £199 6s. TRANSFERS. Transfers were also granted as under Section 55, block 3, Belmont, 63 acres, Edward Gardner to Frederick and William Alex. Williamson. — Approved, subject to transferees being eligible. Section 33, block 8, Mu,kun. 98} acres, Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., to Alfred Isaac George. Section 2, block Bj, Hunua, 845 acres, Frank Lisle Smith, ‘ to Norman Fred Paul.

Section 47, Levin Village Settlement, 10 acres, Oswald Albert Mark to James Stevenson.

Lot 2, block 3, Makotutu, 100 acres, .Registrar of Supreme Court to George Arthur Hunt. MISCELLANEOUS. Applications for the fee simple were approved as follow :—Sections 3 and 4. block 5, Momahaka, 526 acres, Mrs Emf,y M. Chesswas (administratrix of the estate of the late John Chesswas). Section 2, block 1, Mangahao, 180 acres, Mrs Irene A. Patterson. With references to section 3, block IS, Levin township, 2 roods, the seven-year lease of which section expires on June 24th, 1922, it was resolved to offer the leasee a year to year lease at a rental of £3 15s per annum George Thomas Little’s application to surrender his interest in section 22, block 8, Makuri S.D., area 49 acres, was .adjourned for an inspection of the property. i In regard to the application by the Tiraumea School jjlommittee for a temporary lease of section 245, Tiraumea Settlement, area 3 acres, it was resolved to grant a lease for twelve months under section 74 of the Land for Settlement Act, 1908, as amended by section 40 of the Land Laws Amendment. Act, 1914.

The board decided to grant Mr J. Braithwaite a year to year license for section 13, block 1, and section 1, block 2, in the township of Piriaka, area half an acre, at an annual rental of £1 per section.

The board accepted the surrender by Mr E. W. Slipper of his year to year tenancy over section 2, block 2, town of Owhanga, area quarter of an acre, municipal reserve.

Visitors to the meet of the Isorth Taranaki Hunt were afforded a great deal of amusement when a well-known fsew Plymouth resident mounted what he afterwards discovered to be a milk-cart horse, and endeavoured to persuade it to negotiate tike firßt obstacle- All his efforts were in vain, however, and he kept people busy for the time being opening gates for him so that he con id keep reasonably close up in the field. Tile master, Mr A. H. Haloombe, later in the afternoon handed over his wellknown hunter Larikau to the. New Plymouthite, and notwithstanding the fact that, to Use his own words, 30 rears had elapsed since he did any riding, post and rail and barbed wire fences were then taken in fine style, and Larikau and his rider had quite a reception when they returned to the homestead. He had had a wonderfully good time, he said, but watf just a little doubtful as to how he would feel, say the'following day. On© wonders l