Proclamations and Orders




Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

VOL. XVIII.] THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1869. [No. 15.

PROCLAMATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province
of Auckland.

WHEREAS by the second section of “The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1867,” it was enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent by Proclamation to declare that a certain block of land therein described shall be set apart and secured for certain immigrants, not being fewer than fifty, above eighteen years of age, expected to arrive, or who shall have arrived, and desire to settle within the Province of Auckland.

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 all that parcel of land being the Western portion of the Okaihau Block, No. 2, estimated to contain about 5,000 acres, as the same is delineated on the plan in the Waste Lands Office, shall be reserved and set apart as provided for in the above recited Act as Special Settlement Land.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, in the said Province, the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

MILITIA ACT, 1858.

THE following Order in Council, and Notifications, are published for general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 25th March, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of March, 1869.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Militia Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, Militia Districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to vary, and to designate the Militia of any such District by the name of a Regiment, Battalion, Corps, or Company, as he shall think fit: And whereas by an Order in Council dated the sixth day of



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🗺️ Proclamation for Special Settlement Land

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
24 March 1869
Proclamation, Special Settlement Land, Okaihau Block, Auckland
  • J. Williamson, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland

🛡️ Order in Council for Militia Districts

🛡️ Defence & Military
6 March 1869
Order in Council, Militia Districts, Militia Act 1858
  • J. Williamson, Superintendent
  • G. F. Bowen, Governor