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AUCKLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VIII.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1859. [No. 12.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, June 21, 1859.
THE following communication, with its enclosures, is published for general information.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 20th June, 1859.
SIR,—I enclose, for your Honor’s information, copies of the despatch noted in the margin,* and of its enclosures, on the subject of the “notices issued in England under the “Auckland Waste Lands’ Act, 1858,” promising free grants of land in the Province of Auckland.
The subject of this despatch, raising, as it does, the question of the legality of the Land Regulations now acted on in that Province, has occupied the anxious attention of this Government, and after careful consideration they have come to the conclusion that the best, in fact the only mode of satisfactorily dealing with the matter, without considerable delay, is, that the Governor should exercise the powers vested in him by the second section of the “Waste Lands Act, 1854.”
I have, accordingly, to invite your Honor and the Provincial Council of Auckland at once to change the form of the Waste Lands Act passed by the Provincial Legislature in 1858.
In taking this course it must be borne in mind by your Honor and the Provincial Council that the object of the Government of the Colony is not to make any new land law...
but only to insure the validity of that which is now in operation without incurring the delay which would be necessary to obtain an Act of the Assembly, and its confirmation by Her Majesty. It will be necessary, therefore, in order to enable the Governor to act on the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, that the Regulations to be submitted to his Excellency shall be in exact conformity with the “Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858,” and the modification made therein by the legislation of the last session of the Assembly.
I have, &c,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)
His Honor
The Superintendent,
Auckland.
Downing Street,
4th December, 1858.
SIR,—The attention of Her Majesty’s Government has been directed to some notices which have been issued by persons in this country promising Free Grants of Land in Auckland to intending Emigrants in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the Provincial Legislature, which appears to have been passed under the authority of the Act of the General Assembly, No. 22, Session 4, entitled “The Waste Lands’ Act, 1856.” I refer chiefly to notices issued by Messrs. Ridgway, as Immigration Agents for the Province of Auckland, and by Messrs. Willis & Co.
As I had not received from you a copy of the Provincial Act when the subject was brought under my notice I deferred expressing any definite decision in the matter: but as it now appears that an extensive Emigration is...
- Secretary of State to Governor Browne, No. 49, 4th December, 1858.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1859, No 12
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🗺️ Correspondence regarding Auckland Waste Lands Act
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 June 1859
Land Regulations, Auckland Waste Lands Act, Provincial Council, Free Grants
- J. Williamson, Superintendent
- Henry John Tancred, Colonial Secretary