SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2407, 23 January 1909, Page 5

SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

ACTION OF HAWKE’S BAY LANL

BOARD

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NAPIER, Jan. 22. A special meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board was held to-day. A letter was received from the head Mice of the Lands Department forwarding extracts from the “Otago Daily Times” giving the judge's deasion in re Begg v. the Otago Lind Board, being an application for an njunction restraining that Board 'ram again talcing a small grassing

im. The letter was received

The meeting then aveht into committee to consider -whether the leases of the following small grazing runs, which expire on February 28th. 1910. should be renewed or resumed foreloser settlement. On resuming in open Board the Commissioner .announced Unit the following recommendations had been decided upon: Run No. 1, Waiau Survey District, TILL -acres 3 roods, .present .rental £3B 17s Gd, occupant J-amos F. Smyth.—To ln> ire-oJlorod in .terms of report. The area adjoining at present held under miscellaneous lease to be ineluded in tlio new small grazing run lease.

linn. No. 3, Tara mama i -Survey District, 1610 acres 2 roods, present rental £22 13s 9d, occupant Stephen Thorpe.—'Lease of whole run to be ■offered to the present lessee. ;Ruu No. 44 (Lot 1), W-aingaromai Survey District, 2000 acres, rental £l2 10s. F. J. DcLisle. sub-leased to Joseph Wo oiler, at £4OO per annum. —-Lease of the -whole run to be offered to the present lessee mt 24 per cent, on. the unimproved value. Run 54, Tokomaru Survey District, 6300 acres, present rental £39 7s Gd, occupant Goo. J. White. —The run to he subclivcled into four, and a,lease over subdivision 1, -about 2000 acres, to be offered to the present lessee, and the other, subdivisions to be offered under the optional system. Run 56, Tokomaru and Tutamoe -Survey Districts, 3656 acres, present rental £22 17 s, occupant David ! Bruce. —The lease of the whole run ! to bo offered to the present lessee. Run No. 64, Taramarama Survey District, 2060 acres 2 roods, present rental £25 15s, occupant S. R. 'Mitchell. —The lease of the whole run to -be offered to the present occupant. Run No. 69, T-a rain aria Survey Ris- ! trict, 1919 acres, present rental £IS--1 occupant, ,Wm. Hamilton.- —The lease ! of the whole run to be offered to the j present lessee. j - .Run No. 44 (Lot 2), Waimata and I Waingaromoia Survey Districts, 33-L ' acres 3 roods 24 perches, present ren- , til £27 11s 2d, occupant J..C. hielcl. I —The run to be subdivided into three i as recommended by the -Grown Lanas i Ranger: tho lease of "subdivision 1 to ! he offered to the. present lessee, ami ; subdivisions 2 and 3 to -be ofleied un- : dor the optional system. ; Run No. 55,. Tokomaru ami J >'taliioo Survey Districts, -)o3i, ■present rental £3l 11s Id. occupant H. R. Tullodi.—The lease of the whole run to be offered to the present i k Mi\ Lane objected to the fact that renewals had not been offered to I Messrs White and Field. He thought 1 that they should have been-given the opportunity to subdivulo their own runs >and said that the runs -were net suitable for settlement by small farmjc.-,