✨ Provincial land and cemetery notices
NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 79
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
June 29, 1872.
IT is hereby notified that the Superintendent has
refused to grant an Agricultural Lease, applied
for by George R. Brown, of the block of land herein-
after described, viz.—
A Block of Land, containing three acres, more or
less, situated at the Nine-mile Beach,
Charleston.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
June 29, 1872.
IT is hereby notified that the Superintendent has
refused to grant an Agricultural Lease, applied
for by John Rait, of the block of land hereinafter
described, viz.—
A Block of Land, containing fifty-three acres,
more or less, situated in the Township of
Hampden, Upper Buller District.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
RULES FOR INTERMENT IN THE DOVE-
DALE CEMETERY.
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THAT the exclusive right of burial in any plot of
ground in this Cemetery be purchaseable, at
the rate of five shillings per square yard, payable at the
time of selection of the site, failing which the same to
remain open for selection. -
That no burial-plot shall be less than nine feet in
depth, nor contain less than four square yards, viz :
nine feet by four feet. -
That no person shall hold more than eight of such
plots. -
Persons not desirous of purchasing the exclusive
right of burial may cause burials to take place by pay-
ing to the Trustees the sum of ten shillings for each
such interment in addition to the usual burial fees. -
Applicants for burial plots, exclusive or otherwise,
can select any spot in any section on application to the
Secretary or any person duly authorised, who is hereby
empowered to mark off the same on payment of the
sum fixed by the regulations. -
Each plot is to be staked off at the four corners
with durable stakes at least one foot above the level of
the ground. -
The holders of any plots of burial ground shall
observe such rules with regard to enclosing, fencing,
and decent maintenance of the same as shall from time
to time be laid down by the Trustees. -
The top of any coffin deposited in any part of
the Cemetery shall not be less than four feet below the
natural level of the soil. -
It shall be at the option of persons using the
ground for interment to engage and pay such persons
as they prefer either for the burial service or the
interment.
Approved by the Superintendent and Executive
Council this Twenty-seventh day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by R. LUCAS & SON,
Bridge Street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1872, No 23
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🗺️ Refusal to grant an agricultural lease to George R. Brown
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey29 June 1872
Agricultural lease, Lease refusal, Nine-mile Beach, Charleston, Nelson Province
- George R. Brown, Applied for agricultural lease
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
🗺️ Refusal to grant an agricultural lease to John Rait
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey29 June 1872
Agricultural lease, Lease refusal, Hampden, Upper Buller District, Nelson Province
- John Rait, Applied for agricultural lease
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
🏘️ Rules for interment in the Dovedale Cemetery
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government27 June 1872
Dovedale Cemetery, Burial regulations, Interment, Cemetery Trustees, Nelson Province
- Oswald Curtis, Superintendent