✨ Financial and Land Claims Notices
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, May 19th, 1848.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to give directions for the publication of the following statement.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
Return of Revenue and Expenditure of New Plymouth, for one Year,
from 1st April, 1847, to 31st March, 1848.
Revenue
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customs | 106 | 11 | 3 |
| Licenses, Publicans | 80 | 0 | 0 |
| Auctioneer | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| Fees and Fines, Police Court | 29 | 2 | 10 |
| Total Revenue | £255 | 14 | 1 |
Expenditure
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-Treasury | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Customs | 112 | 10 | 0 |
| Magistrate and Police | 1,359 | 12 | 7 |
| Public Works | 201 | 12 | 6 |
| Relief to Destitute | 17 | 8 | 0 |
| Aborigines | 34 | 13 | 7 |
| Harbor | 129 | 12 | 2 |
| Medical | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Coroner | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Expenses on account of the New Zealand Company | 199 | 1 | 5 |
| Total Expenditure | £2,085 | 17 | 3 |
CHARLES KNIGHT,
Auditor General.
Audit Office,
May 16th, 1848.
Land Commissioner’s Office,
Auckland, May 20th, 1848.
HENRY MATSON, a Commissioner appointed for examining and reporting on all Claims to Compensation preferred according to the provisions of an Ordinance, Session 7, No. 22, intituled “An Ordinance to authorise Compensation in Colonial Debentures, to be made to certain Claimants to Land in the Colony of New Zealand,” do hereby notify that I will investigate the undermentioned claims at the Council Chamber on Thursday, 1st June, 1848, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, and the investigation will be continued until the 23rd June.
The cases will be heard in the order in which they stand in the following list, and all parties are hereby summoned to be in attendance, with their documents and witnesses, original deeds (and translations thereof, if in the Maori language), relating to their claims, with copies of the same, the latter to remain with the Commissioner.
Claimants are also hereby informed, that if they do not by themselves, or an authorised agent, exhibit evidence in support of their claims to the Commissioner at the above mentioned place, during the period stated, the said claims will be reported upon, and no grants recommended.
HENRY MATSON,
Commissioner.
Case No. 82—Pre-emption certificate, No. 212
Thomas Jackson.
1000 acres. One thousand acres of land, situated at Manukau, called Pukake, bounded on the north by land purchased by Mr. Peter Imlay, on the south by land still retained by the natives, on the east by Mr. Fairburn’s land, and on the west by land belonging to Wetere, and by the sea.
Alleged to have been purchased from the native chief Mohi.
Consideration—two horses, ten blankets, one steel mill.
Case No. 83—Pre-emption certificate, No. 123
Maurice Kelly.
800 acres. Eight hundred acres of land situated near the head of the river Waitemata, commencing at a creek called Paremarema, from thence along the front of the river as far as the place known by Europeans as the saw mills fall, named by the natives Kotewai, from thence in a straight line to Paremarema creek, from thence along the creek, making up the quantity.
Alleged to have been purchased from the native chiefs Tautari and Whangaroa.
Consideration—£30 worth of planks.
Case No. 84—Pre-emption certificate, No. 230
Mary Fair.
800 acres. Eight hundred acres of land, named Hokowhetu, bounded on one side by land purchased by the late John Fair, by the
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New Ulster Gazette 1848, No 14
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🏛️ Publication of Revenue and Expenditure Statement for New Plymouth
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration19 May 1848
Revenue, Expenditure, New Plymouth, Financial Statement
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
💰 Audit of Revenue and Expenditure for New Plymouth
💰 Finance & Revenue16 May 1848
Audit, Revenue, Expenditure, New Plymouth
- Charles Knight, Auditor General
🗺️ Notice of Investigation into Land Compensation Claims
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey20 May 1848
Land Claims, Compensation, Commissioner, Investigation
- Thomas Jackson, Claimant for land at Manukau
- Maurice Kelly, Claimant for land near Waitemata River
- Mary Fair, Claimant for land named Hokowhetu
- Henry Matson, Commissioner