✨ Proclamation withdrawing lands
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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII.] MONDAY, JULY 23, 1866. [No. LIII.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, 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, the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for the time being, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in him 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 the Superintendent aforesaid did, in and by a Proclamation dated the Fourth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, extend:
And whereas the lands hereinafter described are within the said limits, and form part of the said West Canterbury Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid:
And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the said lands are necessary for public purposes:
Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, 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 six hundred and forty acres, more or less, commencing at a point bearing N. 80 deg. E. (magnetic), on and one hundred and twenty-six chains distant from the forks of the Waimea River, thence following a line bearing N. 18 deg. 45 min. E. (magnetic) a distance of sixty-four chains, and extending back easterly a distance of one hundred chains, in a rectangular block.
All that piece or parcel of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, more or less, situate at the confluence of the Kanieri with the Hokitika, having a frontage of eighty chains to the river first named, and extending back north-easterly a like distance of eighty chains, in a rectangular block.
All that piece or parcel of land, containing three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate at Okarito, on the north-east side of the lagoon, having a frontage of about one hundred chains to the lagoon, the northern boundary being a line at right angles to the eastern shore of the lagoon, and the eastern boundary being a line at right angles to the northern boundary, to include the above quantity.
All that piece or parcel of land, containing three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate at Okarito, being bounded on the north by the sea coast, and on the east by a line at right angles to the sea coast, to contain the quantity.
Vol. 13.—No. 53.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 53
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🗺️ Withdrawal of Waste Lands within West Canterbury Gold Field
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- WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury