Waste Lands Board.

Otago Witness, Issue 1506, 25 September 1880, Page 19

Waste Lands Board.

The weekly meeting ol the Land Board was held on Wednesday, and was attended by Messrs J. P. Maitland (chairman), H. Clark, J. Green, and C. S. Reevea. The following business was transacted : — IDA VALLEY. A number of settlers at Ida Valley forwarded a memorial asking that blocks V and IX, Tiger Hill, and blocks X and XI, Poolburn district, recently opened on deferred payments and for agricultural leasing, should be declared into a hundred. Mr Sinclair (of Messrs Smith, Anderson, and Co.) appeared before the Board to represent the petitioners. The Chairman stated that there were 600 acres remaining unsold in block V and 200 acres in block IX in Tiger Hill ; 1115 acres unsold in block X, Poolburn, and the whole of block XI (2500 acres). Altogether about 4400 acres remained unoccupied, over which the settlers now asked the rights of pasturage. The question as to whether the runholder (Sir F. D. Bell) had obtained compensation for the Poolburn blocks having arisen, The matter was deferred for a week, to allow the Chairman time to inquire into the question. run 257. Mr John Muir appeared to apply to be allowed to purchase 640 acres on Run 257 (with the view of connecting his property), agreeing in consideration thereof to relinquish his right of exercising his pre-emptive-right on adjoining run (No. 64). The Chairman explained that Mr Muir had already exercised his pre-emptive right on Kun 257, and now wished, in effect, to take up a second one on this run rather than a second one on Run 64. Mr Clark doubted whether any arrangement made now by Mr Muir as to Run 64 would bind any person to whom he might sell Ms right over the run or the succeeding tenant. Mr Green thought the principal consideration for the Board was the question of a sufficient reservation of road-lines, and also whether the land applied for on 257 was better than that on 64. The Chairman thought there was a great deal in the point suggested by Mr Clark, and the Board might well take a legal opinion upon it. Mr Muir, however, stating that there was not the slightest likelihood of his selling the run, The Board granted the application. BANNOCKBURN. Mr Charles Colclough, on behalf of Mr Charles Peake, applied to purchase a portion of block IX, Bannockburn township, now reserved as a site for public buildings, and on which Mr Peake's hotel is built. It appeared that Mr Peake had built a hotel upon the section he wished to buy, in ignorance that it was reserved. It was agreed to postpone the application in order to see whether the hotel had been built before the survey of the township was made. If afterwards, the Board considered he should have made inquiry what section he was building upon. KAITANQATA. On the application of the Kaitangata Road Board, it was agreed to record an extension of the road-line between blocks VI and VIII, Coast district. MAUNGATUA. It was agreed to fix the upset price of section 31, block I, Maungatua, at 30s per acre. •- ' AGRICULTURAL LEASES. The following application for an agricultural lease was approved : -Thomas Matheson, section 10, and Daniel O'Fea, section 7, both of block X, Shotover. The following application to purchase was granted : — F. G. Dalgety, section 1, block I, Blackstone, and cection 1, block I, Idaburn. DEFERRED PAYMENTS. The following applications were approved :— To purchase—Charles Heath, section 14, block XIV, Crookston; William Stephenson, section 17, block X, . Waipahi; Peter Hood, section 2, block V, Waikaka. To lease— John Henderson, section 6, block V, Kuriwao ; James Nelson, section 1, block II; Slopedown. , The following applications for suburban land were approved : — James Richardson, section 5, block 11, and W. G. D. Bohning, section 58, block V, both of Bastings township. GLENKENICH. On the application of the Clutha County Council, the expenditure of money was approved upon certain road-lines passing through deferred-payment lands in the Glenkenich district. Anderson's bat. Messrs Begg, Popham, and another waited upon the Board in support of an application by the trustees of the Anderson's Bay cemetery to have 12 acres of section 24, block VII, Peninsula district (near Lawyer's Head), set apart as an extension of said cemetery. Mr Begg explained that this cemetery would become useful for South Dunedin and adjoining suburbs, as there was now no cemetery nearer than North Dunedin. It was agreed to recommend the Government to make the reserve in question.