NAPTER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3549, 16 January 1897, Page 2

NAPTER NEWS.

(own correspondent.) Yesterday. At a meeting of tho Land Board this morning, the following business relating to your district was transacted.—A report was received from the ranger with regard to section 5, block 5, Ruataniwha, and it was decided to recommend tho Government to remove the timber reservation.— The Weber Road Board asked that “ thirds ” accruing on sections iu block XIII, Tautane, bo spent ou Waimata

road.—Agreed to.—Cbarles Parsons £ plied for leave to reside on his broth] section on the Elsthorpe estate instead] on his own.—Exemption from resided granted for twelve months on conditjj that applicant erects a woolehed oul eeotion within that time.—Neil applied to surrender his lease of eectj 37, bloik VII, Ooro (Elsthorpe estate)? Surrender accepted.—B. Mortensen j plied to surrender his lease of section j Elsthorpe village.—Aocepted, section l bo re opened.—H. Berry applied to J change section 23 for section 28, M thorpe.—To be informed that a tran3 could not be granted until after twel months a-ter dato of selection— $1 Johnstone’s surrender of the lease 1 section 10, block 14, Takapau, wae| oepted, and the section ordered to bel opened for selection.—The manager] the Bank of New Zealand applied fJ year’s extonaion of time to have | required improvements rff-icted on secti 11, blook 9, Wakarara, as the lessee * dead and the proposed transferee co; not make tbo improvements in the & scribed time. Extension granted, |, jtjet to necessary transfer beiDg comp'ei before tho next meeting of the Board, John Cosgrovo applied for sectonl block VII, Ooro district.—Granted J was decided to send notices that and of rent on Ist July and Ist Septed last mast be paid before tbe 31st mat, 1 Tha police returns for the year olosod contain information of a p!- : ing nature to temperauoe advocates, {j drunkenness shows a considerable | crease ; the conviotions totalling 125,1 against 191 for the previous year. The upon sea bathing qaestion was? opened to night, when a meeting was hd to receive the report of the* commit! appointed to make all enquiries. Tj report favored the establishment of bd under the lea of tbe breakwater, at a ct»l estimated by Mr Carr, GE., of ab(] £4OO. The proposal was unanimoo!; adopted, and an application is to be aJ to the Harbour Board to grant the osel an area necessary for the baths. At j close of the meeting Mr Kettle eta; that Mr Kennedy was preparing, uoi instruotions from him, plans of &q« closed public bath, estimated to c between £3,000 and £4,000, and intended to approach the Muuicipal Ooi oil on the matter. A twelve roomed house in Goldemi road, the property of Mr H. J. Twij and occupied by Mr W. H. Essox, » burned to tho ground last night. Ahi wind was blowing at the time, and t together with the fact that the buildi was a very old one, rendered all attoeni to stay the progress of the flames fail Very little furniture was saved. T insurances are :—Building, New Zsalai £250 ; furniture and piano, £l3O. A lad named Robert Alexander Hack was committed for trial to-day for forgh an endorsement to a cheque for £2. Mr E.C. Goldsmith, the newly-appoint Commissioner of Grown Lands, mett Board for the first time to day. The was the nsaal interchange of cordialili and hopes expressed that the work wot proceed smoothly.