WESTLAND WASTELANDS BOARD.

West Coast Times, Issue 6119, 21 January 1886, Page 2

WESTLAND WASTELANDS BOARD.

Wednesday, Jant/ary 20.

The Board met at 2 p.m. Present— The Chief Commissioner, and Mesnrs Bevan, Northcrof-, and Pafersou. The minutei of meeting of 6th January in st. were rend and confirmed. An application for a •'license for prospering over an area of 6 square miles (3840 acres) at the Cascade river, on the boundary line between Westland and Otsgo, referred fo the Board by the Wardon for tbe Jackson's Bay District, was recommended by them to be granted by ! the Governor for a ierm of twelve months, at a rental of Id per acre." It was no'ined that the applicition9 lodged for purchase and lea°ing of lands in area temporarily set apart for East and West Coast Railway purposes could not be dealt with until arrangements terrain, ated, and then it will be necessary to give three months' notice that lands are open for selection In the matter of petition from Dobson Towtk leaseholders, the Under-Seoretary for Lands communicated as follows : — In reply to your memo, of the 18th Dec, reporting (hat the lessees of the Dobson Town sections are uot executing their leases in the hopes that further concessions may be made to them, I am directed by the Minister of •Lands to inform yon that the only alteration

which will be allowed ia the lease Is the clause relating to valuation foe impcorements, . v ' z -i ; 8n ould any person acquire the lease orec the head of the original lessee, the outgoing tenant is to receive full valuation for his improvements. But ahould the Crown resume the land for any public purpose, then not more thau two hundred pounds will be allowed, in terms of the Cabinet minute of the 27th July, 1885, copy of which was sent to you with my memo, of the 29th July last. I The Miuister considers the remaining objections which are urged by the lessees to be frivolous, andjhe has directed me to state that if the lessees will not sign the leases with the alteration above noted, they ahould ] be called upon to relinquish the land so that I it may be again submitted to public auction. ■ After a lengthy discussion it was resolved, " That the Board having carefully considered the objections raised by the Dobson Town section lessees, referred to in Mr Guinness' letter of the 9th December alt., and the petition da'ed 15th December ult., and signed by Messrs Poster, M'Kenzie and others, deem the leaseholders entitled to fall va'uation for improvements by incoming tenants at termination of the leases, but not entitled to any of the other concessions asked for.'' It was further resolved that the Chief Commissioner make the necessary alterations in^ the leases, and give the lessees | the opportunity to execute them before j the first day of March. Any sections, the leases of which are not signed by that date, will be submitted again for sale by auction. The Eeceiver of Land Revenue reported receipts to amount of £52 3s 6d for the period.