✨ Proclamation of Land Reservation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures,
are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate,
and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XII. MONDAY, JULY 10, 1865. [No. XXXVIII.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, reserving and withdrawing certain Waste Lands of the
Crown situate within the West Canterbury Gold Field.
WHEREAS, on the Second day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, I, SAMUEL BEALY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, constitute and appoint a certain portion of the said Province to be a Gold Field under the name of the “West Canterbury Gold Field;” and the limits of which Gold Field I did in and by the said Proclamation define: And whereas the Lands hereinafter described are Waste Lands of the Crown, and are within the said limits, and form part of the said West Canterbury Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid, and no Pastoral License exists over the said last-mentioned Lands: And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the Lands hereinafter described are necessary for public purposes: Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do reserve and withdraw the Lands hereinafter described; that is to say,
All that piece or parcel of land, containing one rood four perches, in the town of Hokitika, commencing at the junction of Gibson’s Quay and Sewell Street, following a northerly direction along Sewell Street a distance of one chain sixty-five links; thence easterly, at a right angle, a distance of two chains; thence southerly, at a right angle, a distance of one chain eleven links; and returning along Gibson’s Quay to the commencing point, a distance of two chains five links.
All that piece or parcel of land, containing three roods and twenty-six perches, in the town of Hokitika, commencing at the junction of Gibson’s Quay and Fitzherbert Street, following a northerly direction, along Fitzherbert Street, a distance of two chains eighty links; thence westerly, at a right angle, a distance of two chains ninety-five links; thence southerly, at a right angle, a distance of three chains thirty-nine links; and returning along Gibson’s Quay to the commencing point, a distance of three chains five links.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Fifth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. 12.—No. 38.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 38
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🗺️ Reservation of Waste Lands in West Canterbury Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 July 1865
Land reservation, West Canterbury Gold Field, Hokitika, Waste Lands, Crown Lands
- Samuel Bealey, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- EDW. JOLLIE, Provincial Secretary