LAND BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2713, 30 September 1887, Page 2

LAND BOARD.

, ' • * Ik .Th& usual fortnightly Wellington'. Land Board tvas .'fold at

the Board's offioes yoaterday.^lhurs'

day) morning. Present-Messrs W. J. A. Marchant, H. Bunny, A. Reese,

W-. W. McCardle, G. Boetham, afld W. A. Fifczberhevfc.' The schedule meeting was 2912 acres and 26 perches '' at an upset price of £2404v5s 9d, £l2& 'ss being paid; up.- -Theimplication of Mr W*. U. Ri Kummer,-: as. executor of Mrs..A, v E.; M. : •Eiimmerititftf ut seotioii 106, m ,'ifiss A. '■#. tr'ansfte Mr W. lipse bad 'thajt lie tiffa'ate a;.#ier soaroh for tiie license,' as cbusideration of tlie transfer would'be. postponed for the • present. Mr R. Gregg wrote appfajg • f6Y"^out : '' : 2oiOri';BGL : 'aores ofJsEa betweon tlra Makakalii and the main rQad'oii; the ideforred payment Byßt tern. The 'BMMtary to inform h'im'that the- have no | poweßo's'ell the-land. .-..'Report .wj» | recdveS" I 'ircsin : Ranger on the deferim payment sections at Bunnythorpe r ,j§ora which it appeared that nono of-, : th.e selectors were residing on their.ho Kings, and - in two eases the required improve'-' ments had flofc been, effected. It was resolved to enforce the qifepting of tb'6. inquired- improvements, "and that the ' attention of selectors be called to tho .question of non-residence. The Maurice ville Road- Board,wris! staling that an application had an advance of the money j Hish felling on-the road fronting stTmHr 2, Block IV., Miki Miki, /.and that they were willing to advance the moriey .. providing the Board would allow it to be refunded from tho 'accrued fundi from sections, 2 aiid. 4', Miki Miki. • It was revived to 1 allow' tho oourse to be taken,' Proposals for, expending thirds from sections 2 and 4, Block XU., Kopuaranga, were forwarded by the Masterton Road Board' and approved of., With reference to tho survey of the land comprised in' Mr Coleman Phillips' appli.-, tion for a tencing boundary, the Sur-,- . veyor general pointed out that as thej ; 'survey is an isolated oue aiid wjU'ooaffa considerable sum, the land should be:.! - opened to application in terms of Sec-' tions 89 and 90 of the act so as to < secure th? Government agairigt loss if Mr Phillips did not complete the purchase of the . survey." The Board agreed with ;the suggestion of theSurveyor - GoMral. The question of road access to 'secKn 07, ■Western Lake Blocks was contidereiand it was moved'by-Mr Bunny and . seconded by Mr 'Pitzherbert, and : carried. . That th? Government be, . .communicated wffi lor the purpose. of . .obtaining-possession of the p«ce of •'< land required'for tho road, aim that' , .%,3yiljun6on be iuformed 'effect',' i letter was.received firoai the Surveyor general to the effect: that ~ . the work of ol eariog the roads in the • • Village Bettle~i mentß'in jbe Foi'ty-mile Bush cannot . -be. uhdertakpn'uufii fresh votes have.. •been taken.' the adjourned question ' of. aUowingjhe Alfrodton Road Board V' in. payment of .. ■interest on:a loan tb be raised by that •Board without tHe'restrictiona placed was cousidored.-ind it was reserved •' : that the various-'seleotors interested should ba of the proposal,'; and it was' that the thirds % from unsold-•'■••lauds could " not m ■be . pledged. The Stated that thtf plans of- tby§sds : to. be offered in November next' in the Otairi-Otamakapua and -Blocks uudpftheSniallßun l; l)eferred:» were betijg .prepared, and; wbuld : "b&x issued iii a fewdays.. the > proceeded to open tenders Payment andTerpetual Lease sßctionf • in tli6 Apiti, Mangaone and Kopua* ranga-districts';' Seventeen' 1 sections were sold uiider the Deferred Payment . System, coiinpjising 2256; alcres -81 : perches,:.at p.i:|fies ranging. from JS'i to • .£2 per jcre. - Under the Perpetual teape, system, fifteen were sold cbmp'ripl 2962 acres 8 rocds -14 perches,, the,yearly rental ranging from 4fi to 2s per acre per year/ The ; ' then

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