WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 1156, 24 January 1874, Page 12

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

• The regular weekly meeting of the Wast© Lands Board took place on the 15th instant. Present : Messrs Strode (in the chair), Bastings, Butterworth, and Clark.

Mr R. M 'Donald applied for a license under clause 161 to occupy for grazing purposes the unsurveyed portion of the township reserve, Kaitangata. Application declined.

The Tokomairiro Road Board requested that section 7, block XXXVII. , Tokomairiro district, should be withdrawn from, sale pending the completion of an agreement for a road deviation. Applications were also made to purchase and lease the same land. It was resolved that the land be reserved, with the approval of the Superintendent. Warden Beetham reported on the application of Messrs Hallenstein and Robertson for a lease of, or permission to purchase, a piece of land near their mill-site at the Kawarau. There were no objections, and it was resolved that the land be surveyed and offered for sale by auction. Ranger Innes reported on the application of Messrs Sharp and M'Kechnie that the public should be prevented f r om dragging logs along a track made by their firm to a road at Sawpit Gully, and also along a track to Arrowtown. He recommended the Board not to interfere unless a special arrangement had been made prior to the cutting of the track. The recommendation of the Ranger was adopted. Mr H. L. Squires tendered his resignation as a member of the Board of Enquiry, Lawrence, as he could not discharge the duties of that office and engage in a business on which he had lately entered. The resignation was accepted, and Mr Peter Robertson was — subject to his acceptance of office — appointed in Mr Squires's stead.

Mr G. F. Reid, for Mr R. Danson, applied for a mineral lease of section 1, block VIII., Tuapeka East, said to contain copper ore. A lease, it appeared, had been made of this land eight years ago to Messrs R. Gillies, J. Bathgate, and B. L. Parjeon. These gentlemen were to pay as rent a royalty of onefifteenth on the metal raised, but they had never worked the ground. Mr Strode considered it deubtful whether, though they had allowed eight years to pass without doing anything, their leas^ could be set aside. The matter was referred to the District Ranger for his report. A very long letter was read from Mr G. F. Richardson relative to the management of the Toe Toes Hundred, and was referred to the Ranger. The Town Clerk, Cromwell, wrote requesting that certain sections in blocks 60, 67, 52, 53, 56, 79, 8, 63, 39, 50, 12, 77, 35 of that town should be withdrawn fromf^ale with the view of granting them to the Corporation. It waa resolved to recommend that the sections referred to be temporarily withdrawn from sale pending a resolution for their being reserved being submitted to the Provincial Council by the Government, if the Government thought fit. Mr H. P. Macklin wrote, stating he had forgotten to mention in his application (which had been heard the previous week) that the lease of 20 acres in Mid-Wakatip district which he wanted, was for prospecting for coal. He n;>w asked for a lease at a nominal rent to prospect. Protection to prospect for coal was given for three months. Mr John Darling, Chairman of the Kaitangata Cemetery Committee, asked that section 15, block V., of that town should be reserved as an addition to the Cemetery. The land was temporarily withdrawn from sale, pending the motion being brought before the Provincial Council.

Applications, as follows, to purchase land held under agricultural leases, were approved of :— W. Lowe, section 30, block V. , Tuapeka East ; J. Cutler, sections 1 and IS, block X., Waitahuna East ; W. Scoles, sections 1 and 107, block V., Shotover ; B. Hallenstein, sections 8 and 9, block V., Shotover ; A. Crawford, sections 4, 5, 6, and 68, block IV., Shotover. The application of John Roche, Shotover, to exchange his agricultural lease under the old Act for one under the new Act, was approved. Mr A. Stanbrook applied for the postponement of a land sale. He had, it appeared, received appointments as Government auctioneer for two districts, and could not be in each centre of population to hold sales on the same day. The sales had been advertised, and the Board considered that Mr Stanbrook's request could not bo complied with, that he must get some other auctioneer for the other sale, as with a postponement the greatest inconvenience would ensue to the public. The Board resolved accordingly.

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