Southland Land Board.

Southland Times, Issue 19263, 29 January 1904, Page 4

Southland Land Board.

■ : - -.■■;■■' '-: ■ .■£•'■- . ';•-.■'" /- - m . ;, , „■ : "■> ■;'•_ " : "'. ■; 28thThe' meeting v^^^iii^ndei^y thej . Commissioner (iii : ; the ; fihair)i Messrs A. Kikross^- X,\Mc^ *• and J. McLean. ■ ;, / : . ; The under, secretary ■ -advised the affirmation of the Bo#;d'sVre^plution dealing with the withdrawitf sf iftm. sale ~ of sees. 1 to 16, bloc^-2,-Miii Wafcatipu, .and- : ;th*t- ;^e;;;s&ctions i ''itiay be temptorarUy^lewei^^r'-fefassijagl; 1 -:.:'; ' The same Department advised ijhat pastoral; run,^!^ llJo%ity lslands, had "been WittidvaW7frq?n : sale, -as it was quite unfits for habitation or for pastoral -purposes. - ~- f On the Ranger's, report on sections 6 and 7, block 12, Holmsdale Village, it was resolved that the sections be offered for sale at reduced valuationMr Kinross and Banger Campbell were apßOfnted to visit, sections 19 and r 20, block 10, New River B3uiidredi and repbf ton : request by "V. ' Almao-to have theui 'opened for sale. ; W. Haiies was granted grazing right over riverbed adjoining section V 646, Tokonui, at £1 per annum. A similar application by W. Menlove, over section 7, block 9, Centre Hill District, was granted at 10s per annum. ' W. O. Duthie offered £5 for license, to cut flax on Mining reserye opposite' Bections 11 and I£, block 8, Waika-wa.T-Gran^ad, subject to assistant ranger's valuation. . ' An application was received for temporary 5 lease of section : .;5, block 22,; limejwils— J To be offered at auction at £5 per' annum, for 14 years, under "Public Reserves Act" 1881-^ A, similar course was . decided on in reference to lease of section 5, block. 32, tiimehills. On the reconunendation of the Ooi»»---missionei' of Crown Lands it was reeolved to offer section 6, block 31, . Lamehills, at 'auction at £5 per annum, burdened with £18 Valuation for 'improvements*, for 14 j r ears. A. Parker offered>£2i per annum for lease of .block 2, Otara Township for term of years or „ lease with right of purcha^e.-rCJovernment to be recommended to 1 offer the township as village land at £3 per acre in such blocks as at present grouped. - An application by Mr W. Inder, for Phoenix Dredging Co., Ltd. to purchase section 2, block 6, Waikaka, was referred to the Warden for re- . port.- ■■• "■• - ■ ■■•'- ; . ''- : '.;:"■•■-■ :. "•■';'' The Wallace Couhty Council, forwarded tracing of part, of section; 39, block 1/ Aparima. Hundred, required for quarrying purposes.,— Balance of reserve to be offered at auction for term of 14 years, with right-of-way reserved to quarry ,; ranger to fix upset price- ' > A surrender of sections 69 and 76, block 3; Seaward Bush Township, was accepted, "the sections not to be re-offer6d in the meantime, -a£ they are included in a coal lease. . The Rejager was r instructed ; to take possession of section 494, Hokonui, the land .to be re-offered on optional "flystem^. ■ .-.•,, - .-; -■•:• .••.--V-v" ■' •• ' •'• '-"'"- : " ■'■'- An application for,, reduction of rent on- S^w^dS,^hiTo,wnship sections was refused. Applications for land' by G. H. Shirley, at Waikawa, and., a. Taylor, at Qlenham, were granted. - A transfer of section .23, blqck 6, New River : Hundred, f rom E, Bufctolph to F. Shepworth, was approv'lssue of titles were approved.to C. H.,:J. Cfare, section ;;B7, block 5, Oampbelltown Ilundred/^and Bleie Martin, section^ 128, block; 1, Patersoni were approved. _ ' • Two forfeitures were rescinded. >