✨ Proclamation regarding Crown Lands
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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
fields, under "The Goldfields Act 1862," and "The Goldfields Act 1866," respectively, and to have been open for occupation for mining purposes, and for residence and business under miners' rights, mining leases, and business licenses, as the case may be, and to continue to form part of such Crown Lands, and to be open for such occupation as aforesaid: Provided that the Governor may at any time, and from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that the same or any part thereof shall cease to form part of such Crown Lands, and thereupon such land or such part thereof shall cease to be deemed to be Crown Lands for such occupation as aforesaid: And whereas the piece or parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto was, on or about the fifteenth day of June, 1863, declared to be a Public Reserve for the purposes of a Public Quay and Colliery Depot: And whereas it is expedient that a Proclamation should be made in manner and for the purposes hereinafter set forth:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the here-inbefore in part recited Act, do hereby declare that the said parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto shall from and after the thirteenth day of December instant, cease to form part of such Crown land as aforesaid.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Dunedin, this Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
G. M. WATERHOUSE,
(for Secretary of Crown Lands.)
SCHEDULE.
Province of Nelson.
Town of Westport.
ALL that parcel of land containing seventy-three (73) acres, more or less, being bounded towards the North by Gladstone-street; towards the East by Palmerston-street; towards the South by Bentham-street; and towards the West by the River Buller: Excepting one (1) acre, more or less, bounded towards the North by Gladstone-street, five hundred (500) links; towards the East by Palmerston-street, two hundred (200) links; towards the South by Kennedy-street, five hundred (500) links; and towards the West by Molesworth-street, two hundred (200) links.
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 1873, No 5
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Proclamation regarding Colliery Reserve at Westport
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey26 December 1872
Proclamation, Crown Lands, Colliery Reserve, Westport, Goldfields Act, Public Quay
- Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand
- G. M. Waterhouse, for Secretary of Crown Lands