New Zealand Gazette – 1855 – No. 3

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✨ Crown Land Sales Returns

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
February 2nd, 1855

HIS Excellence the Officer administering the Government has been pleased to direct that the following
Returns should be published for general information.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

NEW ZEALAND, PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND..
A RETURN of the SALE OF CROWN LANDS sold at the Survey Office from the 1st to 30th Nov-
ember, 1854.

SELECTIONS BY ENROLLED PENSIONERS

Locality.	Sec.	Lot.	Contents.	Purchase Money	Proportion of purchase money	Purchaser.	Amount
PARISH OF PAKURANGA			A. R. P.	£ s. d.			£ s. d.
Howick	9	788	10 0 0	21 0 0	One-third	Thomas Gentles, 3rd instlmnt.	7 0 0
Do.	..	9	5	5 0 0	10 10 0	ditto	Thomas Childerhouse, do.
Do.	..	9	6	5 0 0	10 10 0	ditto	James Keenan
Do.	..	8	24	5 0 0	10 10 0	ditto	Laurence O'Brien, do.
Do.	..	9	19	4 3 8	10 1 7	Two-thirds	William Melon, 2nd & 3rd insmt.
Do.	..	10	10	6 0 0	12 12 0	One-third	Michael Page, 2nd instlmnt.
Do.	..	1	45	5 0 0	10 10 0	ditto	Florence Driscoll do.
Do.	..	1	45	1 3 16	3 17 8	In full	Ditto
Do.	..	0	108	1 0 0	2 2 0	ditto	Charles Hare
					Total,..........	£37 15 3

SELECTIONS UNDER THE REGULATIONS OF 4TH MARCH, 1853.

Locality.			Quantity.		Purchaser.		Amount.
			A. R. P.				£ s. d.
Manurawa	..	..	367 0 0		Edwin Fairburn	..	165 3 0
Kahawai	..	..	117 0 0		John Foster	..	55 11 6
Paremoremu	..	..	283 0 0		William Harkins	..	127 7 0
Lucas's Creek	..	..	88 0 0		Alfred Smith	..	40 0 0
Muddy Creek	..	..	118 0 0		Major Greenwood	..	53 2 0
Ditto	..	..	503 0 0		Ditto	..	228 17 3
Ditto	..	..	512 0 0		Ditto	..	232 19 3
Kakamatua	..	..	84 0 0		James Moore	..	40 0 0
Ditto	..	..	110 0 0		Ditto	..	50 0 0
Ditto	..	..	110 0 0		Ditto	..	50 0 0
Arareramu Creek.	..	..	102 0 0		Thomas Florence	..	48 9 0
Menurewa	..	..	112 0 0		W. T. Buckland	..	51 0 0
Ditto	..	..	110 0 0		Alfred Buckland	..	50 0 0
Ararema Creek	..	..	113 0 0		Thomas Hobbs	..	51 10 0
Waitemata	..	..	110 0 0		James Tyler	..	50 0 0
Maraetai	..	..	1059 0 0		A. H. Russell	..	489 2 9
Ditto	..	..	442 0 0		Alexander Kennedy	..	198 18 0
				Total		£1,979 19 9

SELECTIONS AFTER AUCTION.

Locality.	Sec.	Lot.	Contents.	Upset Price per lot.	When offered at Auction.	Purchasers.	Amount.
			A. R. P.	£ s. d.			£ s. d.
PARISH OF WAITEMATA.	34 &
City of Auckland	42	35	1 36	147 10 0	Sept. 25, 1854,	Josiah Clifton Firth	190 0 0
PARISH OF TAKAPUNA,
North Shore	2	8	15 0 0	75 0 0	August 13, 1850	Te Rangi	75 0 0
					Total		£265 0 0

RECAPITULATION.

Selections by enrolled Pensioners...... | | | | | | | £ 37 15 3
Selections under the Regulations of 4th March, 1853...... | | | | | | | 1,979 19 9
Selections after Auction.................... | | | | | | | 265 0 0
Total....................................... | | | | | | | £2,282 15 0

C. W LIGAR,
Surveyor General.

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Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Return of Crown Land Sales in Auckland Province, November 1854

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated2 February 1855
KeywordsCrown Land, Land Sales, Auckland Province, Pensioners, Auction, Survey Office, Land Purchase
👱🏽 Names

23 names identified

Thomas Gentles, Purchaser, 3rd instalment payment
Thomas Childerhouse, Purchaser, instalment payment
James Keenan, Purchaser, instalment payment
Laurence O'Brien, Purchaser, instalment payment
William Melon, Purchaser, 2nd & 3rd instalments
Michael Page, Purchaser, 2nd instalment payment
Florence Driscoll, Purchaser, instalment payment
Charles Hare, Purchaser, full payment made
Edwin Fairburn, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
John Foster, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
William Harkins, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Alfred Smith, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Major Greenwood, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
James Moore, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Thomas Florence, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
W. T. Buckland, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Alfred Buckland, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Thomas Hobbs, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
James Tyler, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
A. H. Russell, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Alexander Kennedy, Purchaser under 1853 regulations
Josiah Clifton Firth, Purchaser after auction sale
Te Rangi, Purchaser after auction sale

👩‍💼 Officials

Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
C. W. Ligar, Surveyor General

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