LAND BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 1622, 23 December 1882, Page 31

LAND BOARD.

Special Meeting 1 .

A special meeting of the Land Board, held on Tuesday, was attended by the Chief Commissioner, Messrs Green, Clark, Duncan, Bradshaw, and Stout. The Chief Surveyor transmitted detailed maps of pastoral deferred-payment lands reserved from the runs sold in February last, and the Board decided to deal with s, quantity of the land as follows. A good deal of it has yet to be dealt with :—: —

VINCENT COUNTY.

Lower Wanaka, section 5, block III ; Cardrona, section 1, block IX, recommended to be opened in two sections for pastoral def erredX^aynient settlement.

Tarras : Section 12, block LXXI ; section 1, block X ; section 9, block VII ; section 2, block X ; section 10, block VII ; section 3, block X. Lower Hawea : Sections 1 and 2, block IX, to be grouped, and recommended for disposal as pastoral deferred-payment land ; sections 1 and 2, block XII, to bo reduced to 640 acres each, with a view to being leased under section 2 of "The Laud Act Amendment Act, JBS2."

Maniototo : Section 1, block XVI; Rock and Pillar : section 1," block IT, to be grouped for sale as deferred-payment land ; sections 2 and 4, block X VJ, recommended to bo opened on the pastoral deferred-payment system.

Swinburn. — Section 1, block Xl, to be set aside as a village reserve ; section 2, block XI, sections 1 and 2, block XI f, recommended for pastoral deferred payments.

TAIEHI AND W4IKOUAITI,

Rock and Pillar. — Sections 14, block III ; 7, block XI ; 1 and 2, block III ; 1 and 2, block VI ; 9, block VII — recommended te be opened as pastoral deferred-payment land. Strath-Taieri. — Section 13, block X, to be divided into three parts and sold for cash; ..■sections 1 and 8, block VII, to be leased ; sections 2 and 3, 4 and 5, (j and 7, block VII, to be grouped into three sections and leased ; section 15, block X, triangular portion E of preemptive right, amounting to 1000 acres, to be set apart as land of special value, and offered for sale at auction ; section 1, block XI, recommended for pastoral deferred payment ; section 2 to bo set apart ass land of special value, and offered at auction for cash — upset, 21s per acre ; sections 3 and (i to be set aside for pastoral deferred payment ; sections 9, bl&ck XII, 3, block XIIT, Strath-Taieri, to be opened for pastoral deferred-payment. Sutton. — Sections 1 and 2, block 11, to be set apart for pastoral deferred payment ; section 1, block 111, to be set apart as land of special value, and offered at an upset of 21s per acre ; section 2, block 111, recommended for deferred payment ; section 1, block VI, to be divided into two sections, and offered as land of special value for cash — upset, 21s per acre ; sections 1, block VII, 1 and 2, block XIV, to be recommended for pastoral deferred payment.

SOUTHLAND.

Tuturau. — Section 01, block IX, to be recommended for pastoral deferred payment ; sections 24 and 25, block X, to be sold for cash as land of special value at upset of 21s per acie ; section 26, block X, to be recommended for pastoral deferred payment. Slopedown. — Sectioiib 25, block 11, 19, block 111, recommended for pastoral deferred payment ; sections 1, block TV, and 1, block V, to go with section 19, block 111, for pastoral deferred payment.

RUKAL LAND.

Strath-Taieri. — Sections 1 and 8, block VIII, recommended for perpetual leasing ; sections 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 7, same block, to be grouped, also for perpetual leasing ; sections 15a and 19, block X, to be set apart as rural deferred-payment land ; sections 1(5 and 17 to be grouped, and section 20 to be set apart for perpetual leasing ; section 18 to be offered for sale by auction as land of special value, at an upset price of 21s per acre ; sections Ito 8, block XII, to be set apart as rural deferredpayment land. Button. — Sections 1, 3, and 5, block 11, to be set apart as rural deferred-payment land ; sections 2, 4, and 6, same block, to be offered by auction as land of special value, at an upset price of 21s per acre. Tuturau.— Sections 24 and 25, block X, to be set apart as rural deferred-payment land.

WAKATU'U.

A memo, from the Under-secretary for Crown Lands regarding the disposal of run34(i, Wakatipu, a portion of which the Board recommended should be set apart for settlement, asked the Board to reconsider their decision as to dealing with the land in this matter, as tho Government conaid&r if the land is so dealt with it will simply be throwing open a pieca of mountainous country as a place for harbouring rabbitSj and will be also the cause of niak-

ing the adjoining country untenable for stock. — Consideration of the letter was deferred till the ordinary meeting.

KKT.LAMV HUN.

At the last ordinary meeting of the Board the following motion regarding this run was agreed to, in place of that wrongly given m our report last week :: — Resolved — " That tho Board, on reconsideration of the question of dealing with the run, while admitting the general broken character of the land, are yet of opinion that the portion (3000 acres) selected for leasing under section 3 of 'The Amendment Act, 1883,' is capable of being improved to the extent required under the leasing conditions. There was also an urgent request oa the part of settlers in the district that the land referred to should be opened for settlement in the way proposed by the Board. The Board therefore adheres to its former recommendation."