✨ 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.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1865. [No. LIV.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, 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 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 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 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 Lands hereinafter described; that is to say,—
All that parcel of land containing two hundred acres, more or less, situate on the eastern side of the Taipo or Hopeoka River, commencing at the confluence of that river with the Teramakau; following southerly along the first mentioned river, a distance of 50 chains, and extending back easterly 40 chains in a rectangular block.
All that parcel of land containing two hundred acres, more or less, situate on the westerly side of the Taipo or Hopeoka River, commencing at the confluence of that river with the Teramakau; following southerly along the first mentioned river, a distance of fifty chains, and extending back westerly forty chains in a rectangular block.
All that parcel of land containing fifty acres, more or less, situate on the Otira, below the Gorge, having a frontage of about twenty-six chains, sixty links, to the eastern side of the river, and extending back a distance of twenty-six chains, sixty links, in a rectangular block.
All that parcel of land containing fifty acres, more or less, situate on the Otira, below the Gorge, having a frontage of about twenty-six chains, sixty links, to the western side of the river, and extending back westerly, a distance of twenty-six chains, sixty links in a rectangular block.
All that parcel of land in the Town of Hokitika, containing two acres, two roods, and thirty-two perches, more or less.
Vol. 12.—No. 54.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 54
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🗺️ Reservation of Waste Lands in West Canterbury Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 September 1865
Land reservation, Waste Lands, West Canterbury Gold Field, Taipo River, Otira
- Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary