✨ Proclamation of Land Withdrawal
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, JANUARY 22, 1866. [No. III.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, withdrawing certain Waste Lands 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 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 withdraw the Lands hereinafter described; that is to say,—
All that piece or parcel of land containing 640 acres, more or less situate on the north side of the Hokitika river, commencing at a point on the high bank of the old bed of the aforesaid river, the said point being forty chains forty links west of trigonometrical station 31; thence following a line bearing N. 20 deg. 14 min. E. (magnetic) a distance of sixty-two chains sixty-five links; thence westerly at a right angle a distance of eighty-five chains forty links to the sea beach following the said beach southerly to the mouth of the Hokitika river; and from thence returning along the northern bank thereof and the high bank of the old river bed above mentioned to the commencing point.
All that parcel of land, containing 640 acres, more or less situate on the Hokitika River, West Coast, bounded on the northward by reserve 271 in red, on the westward by the sea on the east by section No. 8238 and a line in continuation of the western boundary thereof, and on the southward by a line at right angles to the last described boundary, and about one hundred and thirty chains distant on the average from the reserve above-mentioned.
Given under my hand at Christchurch this Twenty-second 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. 3.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 3
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🗺️ Withdrawal of Waste Lands within West Canterbury Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey22 January 1866
Proclamation, Land Withdrawal, West Canterbury Gold Field, Hokitika River, Public Purposes
- SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- EDW. JOLLIE, Provincial Secretary