Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1867 – No. 50

Page 208

✨ Crown Land applications and Debtors petitions

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Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 22nd November, 1867.

THE undermentioned APPLICANTS for
LEASES of CROWN LANDS are hereby
informed that "The Crown Lands (Nelson) Leasing Act,
1867," having come into operation on the 10th
October, "The Crown Land (Nelson) Leasing Act,
1865," was thereby and from that date repealed; and
that consequently, before leases can be issued in their
favor, it is necessary that they should comply with
the provisions of the 5th section of the Act of 1867,
by PAYMENT of the FEE as therein required, and
which section is to the following effect:—

"All persons desiring leases of unoccupied portions
of Crown Lands not suitable for agricultural
purposes, shall lodge with the Commissioner an
application and description thereof, in the form,
or to the effect of Schedule A thereto, and shall
at the time of lodging such application pay to
the Commissioner a fee of five pounds for any
quantity not exceeding one thousand acres, and
a further fee of five pounds for each additional
one thousand acres, or fractional part of one
thousand acres, and shall also pay a deposit of
sixpence an acre towards the expense of the
survey for every acre of land so applied for.
The amount of such deposit to be placed to the
credit of the applicant towards the payment of his
rent, in the event of the issue of a lease."

W. Jenkins
W. Parsons
B. Macmahon
D. H. Jennings
G. Coleman
J. W. Gower
J. F. M'Nab
R. Holyoake
G. Walker
J. Clark
J. W. Gower
J. N. Cioso
D. Drummond
C. Parker
C. Parker
B. Strachan
R. Anderson
W. Limmer
J. Chifford
E. Grooby, jun.
H. D. Jackson
W. Akersten
J. Wilkie
W. Wadsworth
J. Alexander and
A. Franklyn
C. Spring
J. Withers
G. Gibbs
C. Swann
J. Chapman
J. Rigby
W. M'Lean
A. Gower
T. Heath
E. Clark
G. Cook
S. Higgins
C. Limmer
A. Lyford
J. F. Wilson
K. Ross
G. Prestidge
H. Powall
G. Gardner
J. Gardner
J. Rose
W. Wastney
J. F. D. Bockman
S. A. Pike
H. Mitchell
H. York

H. C. DANIELS,
Commissioner.

LIST of PETITIONS of Persons applying for Relief under the Debtors and Creditors Acts.

Date when Petition filed.	Name of Petitioner.	Whether as Debtor or as Creditor.	As to whom.
October 2nd, 1867.	Duncan M'Nab	Debtor	Self, Merchant, Hokitika
" 4th	William Dunbar Banks	Debtor	Self, Commission Agent, Hokitika
" 4th	William Richardson Jones	Debtor	Self, late Butcher, Nelson; now Clerk, Hokitika
" 4th	Thomas Henry Rochfort	Debtor in custody at Hokitika	Self, Accommodation House Keeper
" 21st	Henry Samuel Castle, Robert Ingles, and John Edward Symons	Debtors, Ingles and Symons in custody at Hokitika	Selves, Miners, Mates or Partners together, known as the "Undaunted Company," late of Maori Gully, Arnold. Castle now resides at Hanhau
" 21st	John Mulligan	Debtor in custody at Hokitika	Self, Canoe Creek, Nelson
" 28th	John Knox	Debtor	Self, late Storekeeper, Mokihinui, Nelson, now out of business, Hokitika

ROBERT ABBOTT,
Registrar.

Hokitika, 6th November, 1867.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government, Nelson, by NATION & LUCKIE, Waimea-street,
Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.