✨ Land Sale, Pound Appointment, Banking Report
NOTICE.
Surveyor-General’s Office,
21st March, 1854.
WHEREAS another block of Land, called Pae o te rangi, containing about 25,000 acres, situated north of the Hikurangi block, and between the West Coast and Waitemata River, has been recently purchased from the Natives;—Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this Office on and after the 27th day of April, 1854, from persons desirous of purchasing any part of the said block at ten shillings per acre.
If more than one applicant should offer to purchase the same portion of land, the applications to that effect which may be received during the usual office hours on the day above mentioned will be regarded as simultaneous applications, and be dealt with as such under the regulations of the 4th March, 1853, which provide that portions of land for which there may be simultaneous applications shall be offered for sale by public auction.
C. W. Ligar,
Surveyor-General.
Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
16th March, 1854.
NOTICE is hereby given that a Pound has been erected at Howick, on Lot 9, Section No. 2, and I hereby appoint the same to be the Public Pound for the Hundred of Howick.
R. H. Wynyard,
Superintendent.
COLONIAL BANK OF ISSUE.
Amount of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 4th day of February, 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz:—
£5 and upwards ... £11,470
Under £5 ... 10,998
Total ... £22,468
Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz:—
Gold ... £6,904
Silver ... 564
Total ... £7,468
I, Henry St. Hill, being the Acting Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account, as required by the Ordinance, No. 16, Session 8.
Henry St. Hill,
Acting Manager.
Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 4th Feb., 1854.
The sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds Sterling has been invested, under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.
H. St. Hill.
Printed and Published by Williamson & Wilson, for the Provincial Government.
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1854, No 11
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🗺️ Notice of Land Sale in Pae o te rangi Block
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 March 1854
Land sale, Pae o te rangi, Hikurangi, West Coast, Waitemata River
- C. W. Ligar, Surveyor-General
🏘️ Appointment of Public Pound in Howick
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 March 1854
Public Pound, Howick, Lot 9, Section No. 2
- R. H. Wynyard, Superintendent
💰 Colonial Bank of Issue Notes and Coin Report
💰 Finance & Revenue4 February 1854
Bank notes, Coin, Gold, Silver, Wellington
- Henry St. Hill, Acting Manager