✨ Waste Land Board Correspondence
AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. 3.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1855. [No. 20.
WASTE LAND BOARD.
Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
20th June, 1855.
IN compliance with the request contained in the following Resolution transmitted from the Waste Land Board, the subjoined correspondence is published for general information.
W.M. BROWN,
Superintendent.
Waste Land Board Office, Auckland,
20th June, 1855.
RESOLUTION No. 32.
WITH reference to the letter of his Honor the Superintendent No. 23, and enclosures having regard to the Board’s Resolutions Nos. 25 and 27, and inasmuch as a great deal of misconception prevails in respect to the Board being in possession of funds, and consequently to its being able to prosecute surveys, and in all other respects carry out the provisions of the Regulations, the Board submits that so much of the correspondence as his Honor may deem necessary ought to be published for the information of the Public.
READER WOOD,
Secretary.
Waste Land Board Office, Auckland,
9th May, 1855.
RESOLUTION No. 25.
That with reference to his Honor the Superintendent’s letter No. 14, informing the Board “that no sums were appropriated during the 3rd Session of the Provincial Council for providing the expense of the staff that is required by the Waste Land Board. And although a Resolution was agreed to purporting to authorise the Superintendent to pay certain sums for that purpose, but as that Resolution cannot be treated as legal authority, and as moreover the Provincial Council declined to furnish the means of providing the funds required for that service, that it will be impossible that warrants can be signed for the payment of salaries until money shall have been appropriated to that Service.”
The Waste Land Board submits that the difficulty in its opinion may be overcome by the General Government being requested to adopt the estimates for the Waste Land Board, as part of the expenses incident to the management of the Waste Lands of the Crown, as provided for in Section 62, of the Constitution Act, and to direct the payment of the same out of the land fund, the question of adjustment being left for future consideration.
(Signed) READER WOOD,
Secretary.
Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
10th May, 1855.
Sir,—I have the honour to lay before the General Government the enclosed resolution of the Waste Land Board, having reference to the difficulty in which they are placed in consequence of no sum having been appropriated by the Provincial Council to enable them to meet the expenses incidental to the carrying out of the duties of the Board.
It appears to me that the means suggested
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1855, No 19
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🗺️ Publication of Waste Land Board Correspondence
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey20 June 1855
Waste Land Board, Superintendent, Resolution, Correspondence, Land Fund
- W.M. BROWN, Superintendent
- READER WOOD, Secretary