WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Southland Times, Issue 3300, 17 January 1879, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

V "V. .";..'..;» .:.-:■'■':';- ;■- --? b• YJa meeting of the^a-te;LahQS ; Bbard was held -yes terdayY --Pfesent^ The; Chief ; Commissioner, "and Messrs Denniston, Lumsden. Toshach, and Pratt. ; - /:V I ;YV:The application of ;Ch?vrle3 McKehzie to[ purchase, under : a deferred payment liceuse,! section si, New River Huiulred, containingover 99-afcresV^ras granted; -" ' V; a : .-.-.-: i '■-. With respect to Messrs McCallum and Co.'s. ... application' for; an'additional aawmill area of 300 acres -dn^ Seaward : Bush, preferred /.some- : time- ago, ,the^ report, of;; the Inspector of. Forests was readj in \vhich he stated that the! firm:in question _ad carefully adhered: to the; -regulations. After .some conyersatiou,-it;Was; - - -rekblved to postpone the further consideration; iof the matter for-the present. ■ . - . V.' ; - ,- A* Finlavson applied for a seven: years s '■'■ lease of section 192, Taringatura disLi-ict, he having; complied with the conditions of ; hispresent lease —Referred to the Ranger to in-: Yispedt and report. :.;. X' : X. : X ; : - : , A similar application from: N ; finlayson; in resnect of section 1 93, Taringatiira. district, . -was also referred tothc ; llangcr. ;,-... : : .W- Copland, of .Oamaru, requested to know . if the Board would .sell; sections 1, 5, Gy ~ ' and; 7, block 14, Ja:cob , .s. River": Hundred .; known as a lignite reserve, and in the ; by ent; of such'appliciition being refused, if they would lease thesame, and ».poh wliat terms.-^ . It was. resolved: that the Ranger should .be requested to inspect and report on the leasing; value of the land both for lignite and.grazing purposes, and the applicant to be informedthat onthe receipt of snch report : he would be furnished with the information sought. ' Jaines v B. Porteous asked if the Board had ; received any report with respect to. his. 'ap- ; plication to purchase the reserve in -block -1, ■ Wfhtbh!. district,— The . Chief Commissioner • intimated that no report had yet been re.ceived on the matter f roni the Chief Sur- : ■• veyor;- : - .-•'•.■ :".-• ■•'--■'■ - --.'■'• The ; Chief Surveyor reported as tp the ad- i ditional acreage to his freehold applied for by Captain Raymond, that^it would be advantageous to the applicant on account of fencing if the land was granted. The land required was only of second or third rate quality, and consisted- of- i spurs arid gullies. If the^Board ; could ; sec its;way>to -grant the land, he did not think the def erred payment interests "would be prejudicially interfered with.— lt was resolved that on the land being.' . subdivided, it should, be put up for auction in -terms of ai pi-evibusresolutibn of the Board. :<;Q. A. Harrington applied, for an exclusive license to cut firewood in Longwood Reserve. Helwoiild reqtiire -to .construct a .tram way .rIt was. resolved heshquld be allowed to. con- ..■ "struct a tramway, , and that he, should , be informed that no exclusive license could be granted for cutting fire^oo^v but that he "could have aribrdinaiy,. license to cut at Is per cord. William O'Brien, . Gore, wrote requesting . that he: might be. allbw.ed;to. remain on the : freehold section he was now living on, as the ; one he had' bought, 7 under deferred rjiaynient : conditions, was liable to be flooded, and s it ; -would be- impracticable for his family to reside on'it. He had gofthe section 'fenced, and laid down in crops, and he was on it every "_ay.^— Referred to. the Ranger. to inquire and report, V _ ' - An official intimation fxoin. the Government ofthe reservation of sections 469 to 473, Hokonui district, was read, and; it was resolved to that the land should be advertised as open for selection. - : .-••:,. ■••■■}"■ P. Carmody applied to purchase a residerice area at Orepuki, and it was resolved that it sho^d be put up at the next sale. ■A :: . .* The Under-Secretary ; of Crown Lands wrote as follows, under date January 7:—-" I have the hbribr, by direction r of the Hon. the Minister acting for the Minister of Lands, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo, transmitting the two resolutions of the Board, with respect to the cases of James Mackintosh, senior and -juniors', selection of deferred payment sections _n Southland, and in reply to inform you that as the Government agree with the conclusions arrived at, the Waste Lands Board is requested to give effect to its recommendations in each case." After soine conversation it' was resolved, on the motion of Mr Lumsden, that James Mackintosh, 1 junibr,be : infOrmed that he would be entitled to occupy def erred payment section 81, Oreti Huridred, subject to air the conditions applicable to deferred payment land; residence to commence on receipt of that resolution.. " -.'•"""-. Dohald Manson applied to lease section 40, Wairio, and Robert Campbell to lease section 42 in the same .district. Both applications were referred to the Ranger to report. The Board then adjourned.