Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1866 – No. 15

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✨ Land Withdrawal and Reserve Notices

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.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1866. [No. XV.

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 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 withdraw the Land herein-after described; that is to say,—

All that piece or parcel of land, containing fifty acres, more or less, situate on the Wainihinihi river, where the road from Hokitika strikes the Teremakan, being a square block of land.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this Ninth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

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

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 9, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following reserve, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations; viz.—

No. 428.—Fifty acres, more or less, situate on the Wainihinihi river, where the road from Hokitika strikes the Teremakan, being a square block of land
—For the uses of the Provincial Government.

EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Vol. 13.—No. 15.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 15

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Withdrawal of Waste Land in West Canterbury Gold Field

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated9 February 1866
KeywordsLand withdrawal, Waste Land, West Canterbury Gold Field, Wainihinihi river
👩‍💼 Officials

Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary

🗺️ Temporary Reserve of Land

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated9 February 1866
KeywordsLand reserve, Waste Land Regulations, Wainihinihi river
👩‍💼 Officials

Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary

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