WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Southland Times, Issue 3886, 3 December 1880, Page 2

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

— . — * .' Tlie weekly meeting of thiaJßoard, at which all the members were present, was held in the Chief Commissioner's room yesterday. vn -.. The Mataura Paper Mill Company was granted a lease for seven years of a lignite reserve which had been granted to the company some years ago, but for jvhichno terms had been fixed. The rent was fixed at £1 per annum for about four acres!, Mr Stock appeared on bdfralf-'&f residents at Athol, requesting that block 33 in that township should be granted for cemetery purposes.^ The application was granted. Wm. Keown, a deferred-payment ap« pii cant, appeared before the ' Board, the officials of the department having doubts as to his being eighteen * years, old. Members having expressed op'inibhh that he was not within some years of fliiajt age, the deposit oil £16 was declared forfeited. Mr Finn, on behalf of T. Docherty, asked that a little time should be allowed his client to pay up arrears lof rent. Granted, ou the understanding that payment* be-made-atim- early-date^ -— Allan, Mackee appeared, ,wjth reference to a. report from the Ranger that lie, along w.itji others' had .he>en' cuttuj^higs for piles from Crown lands without, paying the necessary license fees,. . : ', " . '-. ; , * The Ranger reported th^t he" had found five piles cut and laid down ready for rewovol, op which be hod placed ths ae^jh

sary brand. A- together eight trees seemed to have been cut. The first mentioned lot had been removed in defiance of the seizure" brandy c . „, ,-*-,. Maekee said:th*t he had been employed by Hr *3K "Shirley t£-fell and square the pile4fgi *«•- W-yflpam and Mimihau bridMeS 0 the uhasf||uiflXu£ that Shirley wastorapy^er^i^eeßsaxy license. Mr- «_iachell m%Ved tht^a fine of £20 he cnfon-M^This^vas^ he feared, not a -olitir^|Ji_i*#<nce x ot? its kind, and the pract|§!|p._'ld bep'ut down with a strong l*a V*^s*s9.t , •' '• ' l - " •• ' Mr^uffiJ^en was of the same' opinion, the more'so- that' the law had; been set at defiarjci'tiy the removal 61 the piles after they Were" sensed by the Ranger, Mr Dtennistou v^uU support the motion if the^ie^vooJA-fiilp^^ '-first Offender, Shirlefe^^i s w^#?t^t?P9«"ed to fine Macke<F_s§o/ *-- : €t£> Mr Kinross suggested $5y attd the fee of 10s per tree as the tine. Mr Mitchell's motion was carried— Mr Denniston and Mr Kinross dissenting. The Chief Commissioner was requested to take such step* ad he misfht see fit to cause Shirley to make amends for removing the br*inded__re.es. A rabbiter named Dickson, who had applied to be" esempled from living on his d.p. section, was rjfused^the right, the Ranger's report being unfavorable. J. Bellamy surrendered section 234, Forest Hill Hundred. Mr Sinclair, who asked time to pay his rent, it was resolved should be asked to name a date on which he would pay. The exchange of a road line desired by the Makarewa Road Bi ard was recommended. The Board then adjourned.