NELSON LAND BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12770, 11 February 1910, Page 1

NELSON LAND BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the Nelson Land Board was held yesterday : Present: Mr R. T. Sadd (Commissioner), and Messrs Lynch, Sinclair, Walker, and Wratt. An application for occupation license with right of purchase by Andrew Aiidarsoi], section 8, block iii, Howard, ' 31)1 acres, was granted. I Applications for renewable lease were dealt with as follows : Thomas | Whale, section 24, block i. Tutaki, Granted ; Win Henr3 r Sellars, block ix, Matakitaki, 858 acres, Granted, subject to survey ; Wiggo Peter Lumbye, .-::ction 7, block ii, Pakawau, 49a 24p. Granted ; James Hunter, section 7, block ii, Lewis, 1143 acres. Declined, section at present under lease by Mr Timoty O'Donnell; James Lynch, section 2, block viii, Maruia, 25a lip. Granted, capital value 10s per acre. An application for renewable lease by Henry John Sutton, section 10, block viii, Tutaki (Bracbum settlement) 1078 acres, was deemed to have j lapsed, no deposit having been lodged. Applications for pastoral licenses were dealt with as follows: Jeremiah ,o'DoniioU, blocks x and xi, Reefton, 400 acres. Adjourned till the meeting of the, Board at Reefton; Robert Win, block xiii, Matiri, 80 acres. Granted, at an annual rental of 2s Gd per acre ; Winnifred Smith, block iii, Inangahua 50 acres. Futher adjourned for the Ranger's report. I Applications for occupation licenses were dealt with as follows : Albert John Oxnam, blocks xiv and xv, Matiri, about 400 acres. Grunted, at an [ animal rental of £4; J. Brown, block l i, Tutaki, 20 acres. Adjourned for report by Crown Lands Ranger. Applications for right to graze on unoccupied sections in the Braebnrn settlement : Roderick O'Connor, sec- ' tion 7, block iv, Tutaki, 612 acres;. James Wittem, sections 4 and 5, block xvi, Matiri, 1461 acres. Resolved that the Commissioner's action be approved and endorsed by the Board. An application to surrender pastoral .icense and obtain renewable lease by John Brazil, section 6, block vii, Roofton, 49 acres, was approved, subject to the concurrence of the Ward- ' eu - . " j Applications for Crowii grants were dealt with as follows: B. B. and E. S. Senior, section 5, block viii, Mount ' Arthur, 77 acres. Approved; B. B. and , E. S. Senior, section 4, block vii, Mt Arthur, 72 acres. Approved j W. J. Kiuzett, section 19 and 20, block xii, Wangapoka, 193 a lr. Approved. An application to purchase the fee simple of lease in perpetuity was made by A. J. Oxnam, section 17 and subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 9, block xiv, Matiri, 752 acres. Resolved that Grown Lands Ranger Harris bo appointed^, appraiser to value the fee simple of the land. Miscellaneous : Applications for essmption from residence : W. Arch. Gibbs, S.G.R. No. 6, Gordon. Granted during the pleasure of the Board ; Wm J. Gibbs, S.G.R. No 3 Gordon. Resolved that applicant be informed that lie must put the statutory improvements on the land before an application for exemption from residence can bo entertained by the Board. Resolved that the Board approve of the Commissioner's proposed adjustment of Mr Bredbury's claim for compensation, and that Mr C. Holman be given three months notice of the termination of iiis occupation license. Resolved to inform Mr Rogers that that Land Board has no power to reduce rentals on section 20, block v, Tutaki. A letter was read from Wm. N. Moore asking for suspension of payment of rent on section 18, block viii, Inaiigahua, for four years. Resolved to suspend tho Aomands* for payment of rent for two years. Mr E. Buim's occupation license section 26, square 170 (block i, Tutaki) was left iff the hands of the Commissioner to deal with. . A letter was read from James Smith re his application for L.I.P. of 1250 acres in blocks x and xiv, Takaka. Resolved that Mr Smith's boundary be sxtonded to the South in order to procure a good fencing lino. Pastoral run, Farewell Spit. Left in the hands of the Commissioner to -Jeal with. A letter was read from Norman A. Hewitt, applying for an additional area of 400 acres of section 10a, Wangapeka settlement. Application declined. Surrenders: 0.8.P. Melville D Jones section 12, block iv, Howard, 17 acres 3 roods. Declined, there being no provision in the Land Act for tbe surrender of O.R.P. licenses; O.R.P. H. G. Green, section 23, block vii, Tadmor, 38 acres. Ditto; -Town lease, Mary Moore, sections 1230 to 1233, town ot Reefton, la and 12 p. Surrender accepted ; L.I.P. Catherine Whale (nee McNamara), section 1, block xii, Maruia, 329 acres. Surrender accepted. Resolved to open this section on renewable lease at a capital value of 10s per acre, with an exemption from rent for four years. Transfers were dealt with as follows: O.L. Res E., block x, Kaiteriteri, 365, J. J. Lewis to J. Clark. Approved ; O.R.P. section 22, block vii, Wangapeka, 320 a, G. P. Price to C. G. Faulkner. Approved; M.D.L.O. section 20, block i, Ngakawau, 25a Or 24p, E. Hunter to J. Hunter. Approved ; L.I.P section 16, block ix, Waitapu, 143 a 3r Bp, C. and E. Hitchcock to E. Hitchcock. Postponed for inspection ; O.L. section 13, block ix, Waitapu, 32a. ditto. Approved; L.I.P. section 1, block iii, Takaka, 298 a 3r 6p, T. Edmondson to P. C.'Edmondson. Approved, subject to the statutory declaration by the transferee being produced: