SOUTHLAND LAND BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 15

SOUTHLAND LAND BOARD.

The meeting held on Friday, Bth December, was attended by Messrs D. Barron (chief commissioner), J. M'lntyre, A. Kinioss, and D. King. The Department intimated that land applied for by Robert Andersen in block IV, Winton Hundred, would probably be proclaimed for railway purposes. The Waikawa Dairy Factory Company stated that they only took seeurity~over cows supplied to settlers, not over other assets. M. J. Dwyer applied for a grazing right over portions of sections 2 and 3, Beaumont, between the road and river, for at least six months. — Refused, aa . the board could not temporarily lease land on settlement estates. Macalistcr Bros., on behalf of F. J. Dyer, asked that he be indemnified against loss sustained through the action of the Department regarding small grazing Run 38. — Mr W. Macalieter stated that Dyer considered he had a grievance, as he offered to agree to a reduction of the valuation of improvements by £50 if the run were grouped with small grazing Run 41, and opened as a pastoral run. The run was so opened and afterwards withdrawn : then opened as small grazing runs. He was not successful at the ballot, and was now a loser of the- 237 acres Br, and requested some compensation or indemnity for loss sustained by tho breach of agreement between him and tho board. — The commissioner stated that in tho present state of the case the board could not admit any loss by Dyer, as the small grazing run was now open to him or anyone else to take up ; burdened as it was with the full valuation of £237 8s. — Informed that the board did not consider Dyer had any claim against ! it, ami could not make any recommendation to tli- Minister. vr^l'dce County Council applied for section 2U, Wairio, ac a gravel reserve. — Government j to bo recommended to reserve it. j T.l>o commissioner and Mr Kinross reported I on thui inspection of section 249, Hokonui (,![ L. Jones), and recommended that he be not fined for cropping, bu 1 : that he be required to laj the hind down in grass before the expiry of loasc. — Approved. I Gcov'J Clarke considered the valuation (-46) Jo/ improvements on sections 95 and 97, Waij no, 100 low. ;vnd put them at £107. — Receive. iP. A. Prio.'s application for lease of section CC, Block XVI, New River Hundred, was c'.<nitd. Fra^c- and Thomson were granted to Ist i Jt'-rch to puy re nt on lease of sections in I ; >!t^k VII, Pegasus. ; Krsolvtci that the unoccupied municipal re- , rorvc • in Hirf-Wif-Id be offered for a term of M W Thompson's statement re William Foley's ) i/razing 1 cense ever block V, Flint's Bush, was i referred t.i the ranger for .xport. | The* lan'^r rc\.< ited on the grazing license 1 Leld by M. J. O iisrno, section 33, block XVI, Cimpbclltov.j. Hundred, who applied to pui-

chase, that it might be required for railway purposes, and suggested an inspection by the ! board. — Held over for inspection, j Applications granted: — Victor Hugo, section , 50, block I, Waikawa; William Mannion, seci tions 95 and 97, Wairio; James W. Kelly and j Thomas Kelly, section 206, Wairio. Cancelled : George Stephenson, sections 95 and 97, ! Wairio. Transfers approved : George Baxter to John Cornwall, section. 799, Hokonui; H. J. Burrowes to Ferdinand Flugger, sections 29, 30, 36, 37, block XXI, Chatton ; Duncan Matheson to Lachlan M'lntyre, section 55, block I, Waikawa. W. R. Craig's and J. G. Craig's exchange of '. tenures for sections 61 and 58, Waiau,'to lease in perpetuity was approved. j To be . offered temporary leases lor another three years at same rental: Malcolm Mouat, Run 518, Monowai and Lillbum; Gus Tapper, Run 519, Lillburn. ' ilenry Patterson's surrender of section 120, Waiau, was accepted. Forfeited grazing licenses to be re-offered: 'W. A. Rowe, section 9, block V, New River Hundred; John Horrall, island opposite section 16, block 1, Lillburn; Thomas Thomas, section 16, block I, Lillburn 0,3f1W sshrdulf section 75, Hodgkinson ; G. H. Ellis, section 2, block 11, New River Hundred; William Templeton, part section 5, block I, -Alton ;• Alex. Jieir, island opposite block LIX, Charl-* ton block, Hokonui. ,