BOARD,

Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 17

BOARD,

The ordinary meeting of the Laud Board was held on /VYechiesday. Present: The Chief Comrnjgsipper ' (AJjr J, F. Mai t land), Messrs Logan, Clar,k, and Dallas. fKoAD Lines.— Plans of. road, luies w,ere received jm the Knapdale' Koad Board and the Vincent, aUiemo, and' Maniototo County Councils. The following sums *vere proposed to be spent on them : — Knapdale, £98 7s 6d ; Waihemo, £179 12s 7d ; Vini cent, £302 0s 9d ; Maniototo, £552 17s 6d.— The road lines were approved. Lower Hawea.— D. M'Lennan applied for a Crown grant of 100 acres of liia deferred-payment section, 1, block VII, Lower Ha\\;ea, he haying paid £144 on the land and capitalised.— l^aiyjer, Adair reported favourably on the appli(jafcipn, and^ suggested 1 that the license for tjhe rejjminhig portion of the ' section 'should be cancelled.—^pp^cant ijo be asked ! to furriisi) sliiftch of the lO6,acrei referred to.. Kvko^-— txeorge Stringer apphed fo? permission ,to take 'up, about <5P acres, pf section, 4, block IV, Kurow, on perpetual l,eas,e.— P^c^ned. i Rocs and PiLLAß,'.— \ysytfea Woods suggested that I Nicholas, SJnclaljr, ti,o^der of sections 2$ aud S7, block ; vn,9«Qkan(i PjHa^ should havothe lease of sectiop3^at a^on^iD^l i,eritd,-'"lleferred to thecjief comjnjs.sjoner. Qleno^aW.— William Forsyth applied to take up 14Q acres of rural land adjoining section 8, block V, Glenomaru, on perpetual luase at Ihe upset rcntiil of 6d per acre.— Declined. CLiBKNPON.— Ranger Hnghnn rccommen'ytl that the lease of section 21, block 11, andsec&wi m, I'lock VII, Clarendon district village eQitldmeut a-eas, be i cancelled, as neither of th.c leasers had complied with the conditions,— Osncellcd acordingly. Earnscleugh.— W. Prnser. licensee ot l!un 137. asked that the present rent (£j'Ai) be ndived to corr ;&pond with the rents of tlie a«l joining i UoS. Thirty pounds was. he suhmit.'c!, a fair resit.— Applicant to be informed that no reduction of refit con d be made, but the proposal w<juld bs forwarded to Government as an application to sm-^emier. Caudkona.— Jesse linker applied t,) purcbr.se K}o acres of laptl in this district. The warden Jv^\\ no objection ; but Messrs Pearea and'Andi-rsim v>j^cte<l, Stating that their vatnr racrf 'Wdiild U« inteifere.l wfth were tilio re^aef t •grautea^,— l'i^e 9»«jeoiJoii to he

forwarded to the warden*£fbr his report on the same.

Tapanui.— The Under-secretary for Crown Lands wrote with reference to a number of sections near Tapanui, which it had been intended to open under the village homestead special settlement system. That system having been abolished, it was suggested that they might be opened as- email farm allotments on deferred payment.— Resolved to recommend that the land be opened as village and farm allotments.

Maxiototo.— John Forrester, on behalf of various Eweburn settlers, objected to the application of tho Nastbv Pastoral Company to purchase section 19, block X, Maniototo.- Objection to be forwarded to the district land officer.

Maungatua.— Allen Mann applied to purchase Si acres unsurveyed land adjoining section 18, block IX, aDd section 6, block XI, Maungatua.— Approved, subject to the survey and provision ior necessary roads giving access to back country. Nohth-Kast Valley.— W. "Wenlock, J. Reid, and Mrs M'Neil applied to purchase about 16 poles of an old road Hue adjoining sections ,43 and 48, NorthEast Valley.— Mr Reid wrote stating that he had not been able| to make an arrangement w Ith Mr Wenlock, aud he now requested the board to grant him the land.— Referred to the chief commissioner to obtain further information re survey, &c. Wakatipu.— District Surveyor Wllrnot forwarded the most practicable boundaries of various runs on their being released, and tho board decided to recommend their being reoffered for 14 years at the following rentals :— liuns 346, 14,300 acres; 346 a, 14,800 acres ; 34(3u, 10,000 acres ; and 14, 18,800 acres, at upset of Jd per acre ; Run 18, 43,700 acres at |fd ; aud Run 19, 33,500 acres at id. TigbrHill.-P. Morrissey, J. Pitches, P. Lee, W. Kelble, and others wrote objecting to W. Leask being granted a grazing right over section 5, block I, Tiger Hill, and asking that the section should be open to all.— Authority having been granted to Leask, the board declined to withdraw it a present, as a considerable portion of the reserve still remained for the Mse of other settlers.

Table Hlll.— Ths Government having accepted the surrender of Mr Sutherland's license over lands in blocks IV and VII, Table Hill, and the arrears haviDg been paid, the board fixed the new term at 14, years, and rent at (>d per annum. Highlay.— J. Morrison asked for a license for the reserve situated between sections 6 and 7, block 111, Highlay. He objected to it being granted to P. M'Leod. — Resolved to issue license to Morrison under tho Iteserves Act. '

Du.vedin and Bast Taieri.— The Chief Surveyor forwarded plans of subdivisions of bush reserve section 74, block VIII, Dunedin and East Taieri (now sections 74 to 80), part of which was recently applied for by Messrs Cumner, Callendar, and Orr.— This matter was allowed to stand over until next meeting. jeooLBURN.— Mr Pyke, for C. T. Beck, applied to purchase for ensh section 8, block XI, Poolburn, and Mr W. L. Simpson, for Peter Plannery, wished to be allowed to take up the land as a deferred-payment holder. — This nutter had been repeatedly before the board, and the proclamation declaring the land open under the deferred-payment system was revoked last October. The applications were declined.

Applications.— Mr W. L. Simpson, for William. M'Breeu, occupier of section 16, block V, Tiger Hill, applied for the grazing right over section 17, block IV, on usual conditions.— lteferred to tho chief commissioner.

Capitalisation was authorised in the case oi AlexTreesdnl**, section 7, block 111, Lauder. George Moore's application to ex change pastoral deferred payment sections 1 and 2, blocK IX, \Vhlpori, for as mall grazing run was recommend, d to th© Minister of Lands for approval. The application of the Public Trusteo to transfer section 18, block IV, Gimtnerburu, to Catherine M'Leod was approved.