Otago Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 218

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✨ Waste Land Board Report

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1862. [No. 218.

LAND DEPARTMENT.

Waste Land Board Office,
25th Nov., 1862.

His Honor Major Richardson,
Superintendent.

SIR—

In accordance with the request contained in your letter of the 23rd October, I have the honor to subjoin a report of the proceedings of the Waste Land Board, for the past year. This being the first occasion on which such a report has been called for, I am not aware of the precise nature of the report required, but in order that the information may be as full as possible I have included matter of a previous date to that asked for.

The subjoined table shows the number of Sittings of the Waste Land Board, and the number of cases decided, from the 1st April, 1856, when the existing Land Regulations came into force. The questions as to the boundaries of runs, the most fruitful sources of disputes, have for the most part been arranged, and there are now comparatively few cases in which it is necessary to apply to the Waste Land Board.

RETURN

Showing the number of Cases decided by the Waste Land Board, subsequent to 1st April, 1856.

	Sittings	Cases decided
1856.
April	3	19
May	7	37
July	1	2
August	2	11
September	1	12
	14	81
1856-7.
October	3	24
November	5	29
December	8	66
1857.
January	2	16
February	5	29
March	7	48
April	4	27
May	4	34
June	6	26
July	4	16
August	1	9
September	3	20
	51	344

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 218

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🗺️ Report of the Waste Land Board Proceedings

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 November 1862
KeywordsWaste Land Board, Land Regulations, Sittings, Cases Decided, Otago
👩‍💼 Officials

J. L. C. Richardson, Superintendent
Major Richardson, Superintendent

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