Gold Mining Lease Notification




PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.


By John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.


In conformity to the 29th Section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," and to the Regulations made under that Act, for the granting of Leases for Gold Mining purposes of Crown lands, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a Lease for Gold Mining purposes of Crown lands, to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless valid objections can be shown against granting such Lease.

Objections to granting such Lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Wardens, at Shortland, within the time prescribed by the aforesaid Regulations.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed, may be seen at the Wardens Office, Shortland.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.


SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR LEASE.


In pursuance of the Regulations for granting Leases for Gold Mining purposes on Gold Fields in the Province of Auckland, I hereby make application for a Lease, whereof the particulars are as follows, to be granted to the Point Russell Gold Mining Company (Registered): —

Estimated Area Number of Years Description of Land If held under Miner’s Right. Name (if any) of Claim Special description of Easements (if any) required
Eleven Men’s ground, about one hundred and sixty-five thousand square feet Fifteen Years Two Claims situate on Heldunder Miners’ Rights. Name of Claims called the Point Russell and Belmont Claims, adjoining the Dawn of Hope and Little and Good Claims on one side, and the Newmarket Claim on the other side. Point Russell and Belmont No Easements required

Memorandum of place for service of documents: At the Office of the Thames Gold Mining Company (Limited), Pollen Street, Shortland.

C. J. Stone,
Manager of the Point Russell Gold Mining Company (Registered).

Dated the twenty-first day of November, 1868.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Auckland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 1





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🌾 Public Notification for Gold Mining Lease (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
31 December 1868
Gold Mining, Lease, Crown Lands, Moanataiari Creek, Auckland Gold Mining Company
  • C. J. Stone (Manager), Applied for gold mining lease

  • John Williamson, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland