WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Southland Times, Issue 3461, 25 July 1879, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

.•„..', 1 .-_ ■*&. ; The Chief Commissioner? '(Mr 'Pearson), "and" Messrs Toshach, Kinross, Pratt, Lumeden, .! and Defnniston --'attended the weekly meeting of this Board yesterday. • -C-.P. Wallington applied-'for 200 ' acres of forest land, at Longwood under the usual ' regulation's 'for "sawmill area^.— Grhntcd. Robert Tait applied to purchase deferred .payment ';' section 46,' Ne w.-'RiVer :Hbndred, at present held under lease. — Granted. - P.K. .MyCanglian applied for lfeaTve to fulfil his part of the agreement #eftree planting on an afea'adjoining' that in Invercargill Hundred on which originally it was decided the helt sfitmld be planted.—Application granted,,in terms of Forest Trees Planting 1 Encouragement A6t.

Rangei Musaen lopoit^l favorably 011 Mi Muidoch's lpphodtion 101 asiwniill area in Winton Bush. — Granted.. Jamd Old appeii°d iv refeience to Lockhait's apohcucion ior a sawmill area in Ho'vrunii &usn, ancf oojeOted to^ the gianliug of it on the giouatltLiat no forest land would leniiin ior bun after he'had^ cat tho area at present held. Hs li-'dls; erected machinery at considerable expense, 'and this" would bs next to useless -weie anothei man allowel to come alongside hun. The Board pi omised to consider the mattei next week. • •* * ■ Wm. Boniface applied for an area of -manuka bush at Longwood. r=-It_ was decided to grant an exclusive right over forty acres, at an annual lental of £20, foi five years. _ f Ranger Mussen leported that an en-, croachment had been made by Mr Jack, sawmill er at Waimutuku ' Bush,, on , the settlers' teserve. — Tt was decided to instruct Mr Jack to appear at next-meeting jvith refeienco to the complaint. ( ■* A large amount o£\ummpoitant coire'spbndence fiom the Lands Department was read and laid upon the tabled It had lefeience to £he endowments tothevaiions boi oughs iv Southland. ' 1 A communication was received fiom the ~r3rovernment-f stating- that the law officers were unable to advise the Boaid le^aiding the case submitted 'with iei'erence to James Mackintosh-, sen". The Boaid's poweis, the letter went on to saj , were defined by the Act — It was decided to consider the communication <at next meeting. Mr Denniston^ moved that the Government be requested to change the hour ot meeting ot the Board fiom 12 30 pm. to 11 a.m. The mover complained ot the unsea&onablenesa or the present hour of meeting, and stated that the convenience of the merabeis, the public, and the press would be gieatly } consulted by an alteration in the diiection indicated in Jiis motion. , , 0 , / Mr Kinross cordially suppor ted, the .motion. Mr Toshach was agreeable to an hour being fixed that would -suit all membeis, and suggested 12 o'clock. Mr Lumsden opposed the motion on the ground that the horn was not unbiiitable, and that neither the public nor the pre?s had ever complained. He was oppooed to these continual *change^ in the hour of meeting _ 1 After some desultory conversation, the further conoid Jiation of the motion avas postponed tor one month. ,TJie Board then ioso.