Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1853 – No. 8

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✨ Land Claims Commission Decisions



NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

E. W. STAFFORD, Superintendent.

VOL. I. NELSON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 15 1853. No. 8.

WE, MATHEW RICHMOND and JOHN POYNTER, Commissioners duly appointed to hear and decide Claims to Land by Persons claiming Title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, Do hereby decide that the Persons whose names are hereunder written, and whose claims have been referred to us by his Honour the Superintendent, are duly entitled to the Crown Grants for Land, or to the Government Scrip, the particulars whereof are set opposite their respective names.

NAME OF CLAIMANT. No. of Claim. No. of Report. DISTRICT. COMMISSIONERS' DECISION.
Richard Felix Wilson Cumberland 255 255 Town of Nelson Opawa Entitled to Crown Grants for one acre of land, being section numbered 1,085 on the plan of the town of Nelson; and for one hundred and fifty acres, being rural section numbered 30 on the plan of the district of Opawa.
And is further entitled to Government Scrip to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds (£150), compensation on one allotment.
Benjamin Dixon 350 350 Wairau West Entitled to a Crown Grant for one hundred and fifty acres of land, being rural section numbered 38 on the plan of the district of Wairau West.
And is further entitled to Government Scrip to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds (£150), compensation on one allotment.
Robert Brand 351 351 . Entitled to Government Scrip to the amount of three hundred pounds (£300), being


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🗺️ Commissioners' decision on land claims under the New Zealand Company

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
15 November 1853
Land claims, New Zealand Company, Crown Grants, Government Scrip, Nelson, Wairau West, Opawa
  • Richard Felix Wilson Cumberland, Entitled to Crown Grants and Government Scrip
  • Benjamin Dixon, Entitled to Crown Grant and Government Scrip
  • Robert Brand, Entitled to Government Scrip

  • Mathew Richmond, Commissioner
  • John Poynter, Commissioner