Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 6

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✨ Provincial Notices and Proclamations



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PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

EDUCATION ACT.—Sess. VI., No. 2.

Superintendent’s Office,

Auckland, March 3rd, 1862.

I HEREBY notify for general information that, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, I have appointed the undermentioned gentleman to be a Commissioner of the Board of Education, vice Thomas S. Forsaith, resigned:—

John Macky.

J. Williamson,

Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,

Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled the “Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858,” it is among other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent by Proclamation to declare that a certain block of land therein described should be set apart and reserved for certain Immigrants expected to arrive from the United Kingdom or elsewhere, other than the Australian Colonies.

Now, therefore, pursuant to the authority vested in me in that behalf, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby proclaim and declare that 20,000 acres being portion of the Matakohe Block, Kaipara, shall be reserved and set apart for certain Immigrants expected to arrive. The said Matakohe Block being bounded on the North by the Okahu and Tokatoka Blocks, on the East by the Monganui River, and by the line cut by Mr. Buchanan, on the South by the Arapawa Creek and by Native Land, and on the West by the Wairoa River.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

J. Williamson,

Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,

Auckland, March 4th, 1862.

I HEREBY notify for general information that, by virtue of the authority vested in the Superintendent by the “Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858,” I have appointed the undermentioned gentleman to be an Emigration Agent at the Cape of Good Hope for the Province of Auckland:—

William Boro, Cape Town.

J. Williamson,

Superintendent.

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🎓 Appointment of Commissioner of Board of Education

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
3 March 1862
Appointment, Commissioner, Board of Education, Auckland
  • John Macky, Appointed Commissioner of Board of Education

  • J. Williamson, Superintendent

🗺️ Proclamation Reserving Land for Immigrants

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
6 March 1862
Proclamation, Land Reservation, Matakohe Block, Immigrants, Kaipara
  • J. Williamson, Superintendent

🛂 Appointment of Emigration Agent

🛂 Immigration
4 March 1862
Appointment, Emigration Agent, Cape of Good Hope, Auckland
  • William Boro, Appointed Emigration Agent

  • J. Williamson, Superintendent