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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, SEPTEMBER 18, 1865. [No. LIII]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, reserving and withdrawing certain Waste Land 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 BEALEY,
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 Land hereinafter described is Waste Land of the Crown, and is within the said limits, and forms part of the said West Canterbury Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid, and no Pastoral License exists over the said last-mentioned Land: And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the land hereinafter described is necessary for public purposes: Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, 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 Land hereinafter described; that is to say,
All that parcel of land containing five thousand acres, situate on the West Coast of the Province of Canterbury, commencing at a point on the south bank of the River Grey, the same being the north-west corner of the Reserve for Native purposes, containing two hundred and fifty acres, and numbered 34 of the General Government Reserves, in the Grey District; thence southerly and easterly, following along the western and southern boundaries of the said Reserve to the River Arnold; thence following the western bank of that river in a southerly direction to a point on the same, being one hundred and ninety-four chains, measured in a straight line from the confluence of the before-mentioned Rivers Grey and Arnold; thence westerly, following a right line to a point being fifteen chains distant from and in continuation of the eastern boundary of the Reserves for Native purposes, containing two hundred and fifty acres, and numbered 88 of the General Government Reserves; thence, following a straight line to the south-eastern corner of that Reserve, and onwards in the same straight line along the eastern boundary thereof to the River Grey aforesaid; and from thence, returning along the southern bank of that river, to the commencing point.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. 12.--No. 53.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 53
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🗺️ Reservation of Waste Land in West Canterbury Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey15 September 1865
Land reservation, Waste Land, West Canterbury Gold Field, River Grey, River Arnold
- S. BEALEY, Superintendent
- EDW. JOLLIE, Provincial Secretary