WASTE LAND BOARD

Otago Witness, Issue 399, 23 July 1859, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD

A meeting of the Walte, Land Board, wasi held at the Land Office on Saturday last..-. Present — The Chief Commissioner, Chief Surveyor, and Collector of CustQma., , % The minutes of former meeting ,ivere read and confirmed, " An application from Mr. E. M'Glaihari to

be allowed to purchase ten acres of land on Run So. 12, to secure^iSjrhguse^ajad^teAjacres to secure a shepherd's >$roji, broagntttnider the consideration off. the, jEoardJjy^he '"Chief Commisspfffci: "Mr? v M'(|las6afi*si< application was resis"fed "by Mr. Fenwick, jwh§ now^tolds the run. Mr. T. B.< Gilhes. appeared: Jor the applicant, and Mr..K.enyon i oa.b|Jia;lf^»f Mr. Fenwick. After considerable disciissioti, it was resolved —

" That no pre-emptive right be allowed to be exercised on Run No. 12, until Mr. Suisted'3 transfer to Mr' M^Glashan is placed on tlie' books of the Land Office, nud any transfer that Mr. M'Glashan may have made be also, registered, and that the application stand oven" The Provincial Solicitoi' took his seat at the Board. "*""

An application ■ fronvMr. Lewis for a lease of the' coal, mine at "the GluthS, having been considered,! it was resolved — t -; . _; ; ".That "the Boaid recognizes . Mr. Lewis', claim to a leass, and that he be' allowed 1 the option of taking such lease on terms to be arranged with the Governmentj'and that the matter be referred $o the Provincial Solicitor 'and Chief Commissioner to consider the terms of a lease, and to report tho same to the Board." ' A letter from Mr. A. R. B. Thomson, stating that 2000 sheep and 1200 lambs were on his run, Jfo. 254, and that he was unable to drive the remaining stock required ib entitle him to his license, and requesting further time." Certificates of the stock being on the country having been produced, it was resolved— ; '

" That Mr. Thomson's case comes .withia the terais of the resolution of -the Board of Slst May 1859, and that no part of -the run will be declared abandoned for a reasonable time."

A letter was received from Mr. James Smith, requesting to be allowed to exercise his preemptive right,, under threef licenses for adjoining country, on one-run, No. 106. It was resolved that the application be refused. A letter from Mes"si;s'. '$. Macandrew & Co., of date 29th Junej relative td the ca\ise of the non-stocking* of- Mr. Ligar's Run, on the Waiau, havjng been;read,-it was resolved that it be intimated to Messrs- Macandrew that the Run will not for {he'"preseiit''be abandoned, that eye'ry "effort ' must- -be ; -made "id stock the country within two months, and that the Chief Commissioner, atthe end? thereof,' bring the subject under the notice of the Board.

An' application"- from-Mf. Ai 07 Elles 1 to be allowed to purchase : Section > 11. Block 5, Campbelltowu, under the Town Land Sales Ordinance, having been -considered, it was resolved that Section 1 Block V. having been granted -to Mr. Elle& under the-Ortlinance, the application be refused. - • , . - A letter from Messrs. Elles, Calder, and Blacklock, requesting" to be allowed to amend their application under the Town Land Sales Ordinance, for a site for a church,, having been read, it was resolved that, the application be granted, and that they be allowed to amend their application by adding' Section 11 Block XIII., Invercargill. The Chief Surveyor haying vacated his seat at the Board, a letter.-from him "reporting that in a survey made* for .the Free Church, by Mr. Briscoe, had furnished -rnaps^which .had been recorded, and from which* it appeared that the land had been fully surveyed, when in fact the survey had only been partly performed'; alfd that it contained: a much -larger quantity of bush than has been .shown by the survey, having been considered, the Board came to the conclusion that, the case was-of\so serious a nature that it was resolved that the authority of Mr. Briseoe to act for the public as an Authorised Surveyor, be withdrawn. The Board adjourned sine die.