Proclamation




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. XIII.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1866. [No. XI.


PROCLAMATION

By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, withdrawing certain Waste Land of the Crown situate within the West Canterbury Gold Field.

WHEREAS, by Proclamations in the Provincial Government Gazette, dated respectively the Second and Fourth day of March, 1865, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, did constitute and appoint certain portions 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 Proclamations define: And whereas the Land herein-after 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 Licence exists over the said last-mentioned Land: And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the Land herein-after 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 withdraw the Land herein-after described; that is to say,--

All that piece or parcel of land, containing one thousand acres, more or less, situate at the mouth of the river Grey, commencing at the south-eastern corner of Native Reserve No. 31, thence following a line in a south-westerly direction, at an angle of 74 deg. 13 min., with the southern boundary of the before-mentioned reserve a distance of about 122 chains, thence north-westerly at a right angle a distance of about 118 chains to the sea-beach, following the beach to the mouth of the Grey, thence following the southern bank of that river to the north-western corner of the Native Reserve before mentioned, and from thence returning along the western and southern boundaries of that reserve to the commencing point, and numbered 280, in red, on the map of the Chief Surveyor setting out and describing the said town of Greymouth, save and except the Native Reserve No. 32.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this Twenty-seventh day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Vol. 13.—No. 11.



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🗺️ Proclamation withdrawing Waste Land of the Crown within the West Canterbury Gold Field

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
27 January 1866
Proclamation, Waste Land, West Canterbury Gold Field, Withdrawal, Public Purposes
  • Samuel Bealey, Superintendent
  • Edw. Jollie, Provincial Secretary