Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

VOL. XXIV.] MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1875. [No. 12.]

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the third section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Goldfields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by Proclamation to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a Goldfield, under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by the tenth section of the said Act it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time, either by a particular or general description, to exempt from occupation for Mining Purposes, or for Residence, or for Business, under any Miner’s Right or Business License, any specific portion of Crown Land or any class of Crown Lands within a Goldfield, and such exemption from time to time to revoke, and the limits and extent of such exempted Land to alter as he shall think fit: and Land so exempted or included in any class so exempted, shall not be occupied under any Miner’s Right or Business License: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, upon application to him for that purpose, to authorise the occupation of any such exempted Lands, either for Mining Purposes, or for Residence, or for Business, but not for Agricultural or Pastoral purposes: And to permit of the construction of Races, Dams, or Reservoirs thereon, and of Races, Drives, or Tunnels thereunder, subject to such conditions, restrictions, and regulations as he may think fit to impose: And whereas, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act, the powers thus vested in the Governor in Council by the tenth section of the said Act have been delegated to me, Daniel Pollen: And whereas I did by Proclamation, bearing date the third day of March instant, constitute and appoint a certain Block of Land in the District of Hauraki, in the Province of Auckland, known as the Ohinemuri Block, to be a Goldfield under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by another Proclamation of even date therewith I did exempt from occupation for Mining Purposes, or for Residence, or for Business License, all that piece or parcel of land situated at Karangahake within the said Ohinemuri Goldfield, measuring five hundred feet in length and three hundred feet in width, known as Reserve A, the boundaries whereof have been marked and defined on the ground:

Now, therefore, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authority delegated to me under the said Act, I, the said Daniel Pollen, do hereby, upon application made to me for that purpose, authorise the occupation for Mining Purposes of the said exempted Land by such person or persons as shall, after due investigation and the hearing of all persons desiring to be heard therein by the Warden of the said Goldfield, be found by him to be the first or original discoverer or discoverers of gold in the said exempted Land, subject to the regulations for the said Goldfield made and issued by me on the said third day of March instant, in like manner as though the said exempted Land had been taken up and held under the said regulations.

Given under my hand at Auckland in the Province of Auckland, this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

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