WASTE LANDS BOARD.
The usual meeting of the Board was] hell Inst week*, Present: .Messrs 'J hom- ' son. Butterworth, Clark, Reid, Strode, and liiwmp* Mr. ITaggitt applied, on behalf of Mchsi'h Orkden and Brown, for reconsider ation of h refusal by tins Chief Commis sioner of their application to purchase section 7,\, block 10, Karroo district. It appeared, upon argument, that the ground in question hiid been reserved as an en dowment for the Oamaru Hospital ■ Mr. (Strode move I that the question should be lvterred to the Judge as to the question of the legality of the reserve. The Board, however, eventually agreed to refuse the application, on the ground that it such re serws are not legal, the onus of proving so should devolve upon the applicants.
