20,000 Acres of Land

NG Land Board Allocates

THE New Guinea Land Board sat at Lae, Wau and Madang dur ing December and during this period a number of outstanding ap plications for land were approved, subject to the confirmation of the Administrator-in-Council.

The Board will sit in Wewak in February in order to deal with all outstanding applications in that area; and the Papua Land Board was expected to meet in early January.

The NG Board in its December sitting recommended these grants and tenders:

Agricultural Leases In The

VALLEY: T. G. Mason, 2,420 acres, west of the Erap River; W. J.

Jackson, TOO acres, west of the Erap River; D. J. and T. J. Leahy, 2,000 acres, west of the Erap River; J. D. McKinley, 1,286 acres, west of the Erap River.

Agricultural Lease, Morobe

DISTRICT; A. P. Ireland and A. L.

Malcolm, 400 acres on the Wau-Labu Road near the Watut River.

■Pastoral Leases: Mrs. C. H.

Robertson, 5,200 acres on the Leron River, Markham Valley; J. Wl Lyle, 6,840 acres on the Leron River, Markham Valley.

Other minor leases were granted, and seven applications for agricultural and

pastoral land were refused—some because applications were for agricultural leases tn areas classified as pastoral country.

The hearing of an application by New guinea Estates Proprietary, Ltd., for £2,000 acres of pastoral land around the Gusap airstrip was deferred on the re quest of the company. This was due to the illness of one of the company’s principals, and to permit representation before the Land Board.

Successful Tenders For Wau

Common Blocks Of 41-Acres Each:

W. R. McConnon (Tender of £860); Sister Joubert (£425); W. Cameron (£200); and Mrs. E. Jensen (£165).

Successful Tenders For Madani

Business Blocks: T. E. Huxle

(£527/10/-); Wong Yuk Chee (£250(

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® ew » eut h Wales (£100).

Successful Tenders For Lai

Business Blocks: Seeto Kui ( £2151

Tsang Bicb Hing (£200); Territory Sports Company (£75).

Wau Common

-cvr.™ „ , , goia • dooming day Wau was virtually a waste land but a few years ago, M^essn Norman White and Baker of Wav

itained permission to use it for friculture. They grew vast quan ;ies of vegetables and peanuts on and proved its economic value, here thereupon arose a certain nount of local clamour to have the mmon cut up into small holdings id for tenders to be called for ,em.

This has now been done; ap trently the original users of the nd will now have to go out of isiness or look for land elsewhere.

hese Islands residents were in Auck [?]i during December:— [?]he Rev, Brothers Columbia and [?]urus from St. Peter’s College, Suva. [?]Irs. Kopu, Mr. Uriarau, Miss Taylor [?]Iding child), Miss Aue, and (front) [?]ere Kopu, from the Cooks. [?] J. Mannix and Mrs. A. Anderson, [?] were met by Miss Nia Petero, on [?]ival from Aitutaki.