OTAGO LAND BOARD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 4

OTAGO LAND BOARD.

A special meeting oi the Ola go Land Board was attended In .the Commissionei of Ciown Lands (Mr E H. Wilmot) and Messis D Ban on and J. A Macpherson. The following matteis of local interest wcie dealt with

Isabella Clark applied for a license to occupy the ai ea foi mcily held by Alex Goodie} opposite section 49, block 9, Moeraki dislnct —Held over for Commissionei to inquiie as to suivey boundaries

Mr T A Munio wiote, on behalf of; Mis It. D Munio declining to exchange her section, block 1, Otamatakau 'district, for the land offered her by the Boaid, and asking that the onginal offei of 30 acies foi rash, adtoimng the said section be adhered to. —To be allowed to purchase 36 acres adioining section 2 at a capital value of 30s per acie , Thomas Cairns applied for a. license to occupy about three acres of riverbed between the railway bridge and the mam rond, block 1, Kurow district. — Yearly license granted, rental 5s per annum. _i Charles ~Beck, lessee of section 8, Tokarahi Settlement, wrote" drawing the Board's attention lo the state qf the Awafnpko'Cicck—To be informed "that the ;bbaid is unable to take ailion, as uie adjoining lessee has,declined to assist. k James Johnston, lessee ot sections 18a | and 31a, Eldershc settlement, wrote asking to be- allow cd to erect anothei damson his section, as the water supply is short. —Refcircd to Raiiger Atkinson for report. William Fratci applied for an occupaDatioii" lease over sections 90 and 91, blopk IX, Maeiew hernia district, at present held bv Jumself ,snd.Am\ Frater, under leases Nos. 10 and- 4f> —To be mfoimed that on sutLcnder of the* leases- 'a new leasc-j over ,lhe whole aie.iSvill be'granted to William Frnter. - The,, following applications to transfer weie N approved—Lip. 445, John Xmwood to Robert Linwood, section 13, block 6, Kuiow distuct, lip, 11455, 4945', 48os^\\ T ilham Dol m to Redmond and John Lmwood, sections 3, 24, 6, and 4, M.ierewhenua est ne U.i pi e\ ions me<tiiig U.mtioi Mkm;on reported .that- the representative of the late Alexander French, lessee of section "23, ICauroo Hill settlement, had out down and removed six bhicgutus from'tlie homesleiid plantation.—To be called upon to give an explanation to the Board.

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