NELSON LAND BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12749, 22 March 1910, Page 3

NELSON LAND BOARD.

SPECIAL MEETING. A special meeting of the Nelson Land Board was held on Monday March 14 at Reef ton. Present: Messrs. R. 1. Sadd (Commissioner of Crown Lands, in the ohair), Wratt, Sinclair, Lynch, and Walker. , _ T An application for O.R.P. by E J. Burnetb, soc 13, blk x, Wai-iti, 109 ac lr 34p was granted. „ , , An application for renewable lease by T A. Morrison, blk xi,. Gordon, 400 acres, was granted, subject to the approval of the Minister of Lands. An application for a pastoral license by A C. Pahl, over part, sec. 15, and land adjoining blk v,. Tutaki, 40 acres was adjourned for the Ranger's report. Among the applications Jor. occupation licenses Tvere the following: J. Brown, blk i, Tutaki,. 20 acres, refused • R Came, blk xiii, Inangahua, 600 acres, adjourned for advertisement. An application by Cynthia O'Ronke to be allowed to transfer her application for a renewable lease of 975 acres in blks v and vi, Matiri district, to Hugh Ross was approved. In reference to pastoral license granted Robert Win, over SO acres, blk xii Matiri, on February 10. 1910 at an annual rentalof 2s 6d per acre applicant applied for: a rehearing, when it was rosolved. to reduce the rent to 2s PBT ttCTG. ' ' . , An application by A. J. Rogers forremission of rent on his renewable lease holding, section 20, blk v Tutakt district, was adjourned for the Ranger's report. ' • _ Surrenders .-.L.1.P., Timothy,O'Donnell, section 7 block iii, Lewis,- 1143 acres.— Resolved that the applicant be reinstated on payment of all arrears of rent and that he be given 6 months in which to effect half the' required improvements, the . balance of the im-T provements to be effected , within t 12 months. Residence to commence within 3 months ; O.L. Elijah Burn, section 26 Murchison suburban, accepted.^ — Resolved that the land he opened on renewable lease tenure for 33 years weighted with the value of improvements effected thereon by Mr. Burn. Capital value 8s p^r acre. The following transfer was approved; L.1.P., section 1,-block iii, Lewis, 518 acres lr sp, from W. N. Prentice to A.Prentice. . ■'..■"