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for the supply of such Timber as may be required by the Provincial Government for the six months ending 30th June, 1858.
Information can be obtained at this office.
Tenders to be endorsed "Tenders for supply of Timber."
J. Williamson,
Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
14th December, 1857.
The following notice, published in the New Zealand Gazette, is re-published for general information.
J. Williamson,
Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.
Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted that no land acquired from the aboriginal inhabitants, after the passing thereof, shall be open for sale or disposal until the Governor shall have notified, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Government Gazette, that the Native Title has been extinguished over such land.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby proclaim and notify that the Native Title has been extinguished over the Block of Land, the boundaries whereof are mentioned or described in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Thomas Gore Browne.
By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.
God Save the Queen!
SCHEDULE.
Province of Auckland,
Kaiapara District, Okahu Block,
(Containing about 16,000 acres.)
The boundaries commence inland of Tokatoka on the survey line commenced by Mr. Fenton and completed by Mr. McCabe, which extends to the Manganui river, and bears by compass 30 degrees 0 minutes, the distance being 626 chains 93 links; it then follows the course of the Manganui river as far as Mr. Fenton’s survey line, which cuts the river as directed by Matitikuha, bearing by compass 14 degrees 15 minutes, distance 270 chains, 80 links, to a line bearing 338 degrees 0 minutes, distance, 27 chains, 20 links, and along the line bearing 29 degrees 2 minutes, distance 196 chains to the point of commencement.
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1857, No 27
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Tender for Timber Supply
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Tender, Timber, Provincial Government, Six Months Contract
- J. Williamson, Superintendent
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- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
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