NELSON LAND BOARD.

Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4174, 25 June 1885, Page 4

NELSON LAND BOARD.

A meeting'of the Land Board was held on Jane 18, when Commissioners Curtis, Sharp, Hamilton, and Chief Commissioner Greenfield. were present. < t ' • The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Prospectus Licenses.—-No. 296, The Mokihinm'Coal: Company, Limited, 640 acres, Mokihinui.^-Granted for 12 months from Ist July next i 'The undermentioned applications were referred to the Warden, viz.:—Johnston and Home, No. 297, 640 acres, Mokihinui; John Hughes, N0.;298, 640 acres, Mokiuinui Occupation Licenses.—No. 223, Bobert Win, 500 acres,. Tadmor; granted at twopence per acre per annum, —No. 224, Joseph Frolliv postponed for amendment, as plan covers leased land.—No. 222, Fowler and Kruse, application for 16,600 acres, Rainbow district; .postponed until next meeting. A! letter- from Q: W. Mirfin, junr. asking fotfa' reduction-of license for folio 239, L. 7.— Resolved; That the rent be reduced to £5 per ! annum. - : ' Lease Refused.—Eesolved, That tlao lease of '-five acres,' Wakapuaka, applied for by GbMes Turner, application 2002, be .refused. Eesolved, That the undermentioned land be i classified as Town Lands, .Lyell extension, vizV:—Sections: 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, Bloekl Maruia, and that they be assessed at the rate of 5s per perch, . Leasehold Land Assessed for Sale.—Section 125, square-141, M. Organ 20s per acre; sections; >1, 4, and 5, Block VI, Motupiko, T. W. Mead,'los per acre. Land Assessed for Leasing under the Land Act, 1882, third schedule.—Sectious 120,121, square 131, C. H. Morris, exchanged lease, 30sper acre. Purchase of Land for Road.—Eesolved, That the. Board'recommend the purchase of a road through section 7, Block XII., Wangapeka, from Mr Fitch at a cost not exceeding £9r-the. price recommended by the Eoad Board.,'.