DUNBACK,
"" Ranker Valpy reported that 10 acres of section 16, block V, Dunback district, was ploughed, and recommended thaUbe section be offered for sale; burdened with £5 for ploughing and £15 for a house erected. It was decided to cancel the present lease for nonfulfilment of conditions of occupation, and re-let the land with a valuation of £20. it UN 28 a. The Chief Surveyor, reporting on the application by Mr M'Kellar to purchase C4O acres of Run 28a suggested that the form of the land applied for be altered, and that the applicant be requested to produce proof that a notice of the application was advertised. Consideration was deferred. ritOSriiCTING FOR COPPKR. Messrs Gillies, Street, and Hislop, on behalf of William Dochorty, applied for protection to prospect for copper and other minerals over the piece of country (5000 acres) bound, on the south by Cooper Island. The Board decided to grant what protection it could for eight months.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1495, 10 July 1880, Page 14
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159DUNBACK, Otago Witness, Issue 1495, 10 July 1880, Page 14
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