LAND BOARD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6513, 16 June 1899, Page 2

LAND BOARD.

The Canterbury Land. Board met- on•Thursday; present — -Messrs Sidney. Weet^ n?an (Commissioner oi Grown Lards), R. Meredith, M.H.R., D. M'Millan, .A.- C. '■■Pfingle and J. M'Lachlan. Leave of absencs duiing the ensuing session of- Parliament was granted to Mr Meredith. The following applications for land, were granted: — Benjamin Brooks, Section. 7, Block VII., Morven Township,. 2r 22p •„ Charles Blyth, Section 15, Harmer Plains Village, 14a 2r 25p ; W. T. Robinson, Seatior. 3, .Block XIII., Mackenzie Township,. 1 rocd. A report was leceived from the Crown Lands Ranger en the wcrking cf the Waiau.Bush section, Cheviot, held under, sawmill -license by Messrs Fraser Bros, and H. D. Leaman. It 1 was decided to call upon. Mr Leaman, under Clause 35 of. the Forest Regulations, to work his area in a propeu- manner.. It was resolved to have all unsold : and cunlet lands in the South RakaiafCownahip ed and grouped, withi a view to their jbeirig offered for lease for terms of seven years. The Board decided to apprOva cf the transfer from Jchn Rossiter to A&ed Biinn of his sawmill license at Oxford^ and also to . grant to Mr Bunr a license to cut 'in Sec-, tions 5 and 19, Oxford Bush, the timber on which was to be woiked oofc before milling was commenced on Lotsi? and 18; and part of 4. It was also agreed, to approve of the three additional sawmill areas applied for by Messrs Ryder Bros, at Cooper's" Creek, Oxford Bush, being •.. reserved for their use, provided that the na^ta andowest boundaries were properly defined on the ground. On the application of the Ashburton County Council it rwas decided to' recommend that a section of Ha lr 35p, in the Ruapuna Village Settlement, should 'b& set apart and vested in the Council for >pUvntation purposes. On the appEUcation, of the: Temuka Road Board, it waa.^agreed to re^ commend that a. section 1 of 6at;2r adjoining Reserve 1071, Block' IV., Pateora Survey District, should be set apartr and vested hr the Board for plantation '■ proposes.' TKe Mayor of Waimate applied foF-a list of unsuccessful applicants for sections -on the Waikakahi Settlement, and ifcwas decided " to approve of a list being furnished tohini. With regard to the Mackenzie County Plantation Reserves, it was decided to approve' of a lenewal of Mr W. Grant's tenancy of Reserve 2916, at a reduced, rental 'of £25 " per annum. The renewal of the following tenancies was approved, the tenants •- having accepted the terms offered by the Board : - — Malcolm M'Leod, Reserve 2917; Murrayand Thomas, Reserve- ■- 2918 ; Ayidrfewl'Cowan, Reserves 2919 and 2950J New" Zealand Loan and Mercantile' Agency C&nir pany, Reserves ' 2920 and 2921 ; DV Bahi, Reserves 2922 and 2959 ; -WTSaunders, Reserves 2924, 2925 and 2926? Matheson and Le Cren, Reserves 2927 and' 2930.~ The Commissioner Lnid before the Board a memorandum from the Surveyor-General-, advising that the redisposal of "certain, pastoral 1 runs should bfr deferred fop the present; Mr Meredith presented an application■'■fdr.-tne-acquisition of a site of one acre for a -Presby- - terian church "on -Lot 6, H&rsley Down Settlement. It was- decided torrecommend the" application for the approval of the MihistekOther departmental bUsiiiwss-was transacted;, and. the Board- rose.- ' '••..-