New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 29

Page 183

✨ Proclamation and Land Regulations

DIEU

SOIT OUI MAL Y PENSE
HONI DROIT

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereunto
annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate
and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Excellency's Command,
C. W. RICHMOND, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. IV.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1856. [No. 29.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE Companion of the
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1854," it is provided
that if the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of any Province shall recommend to
the Governor any Regulations for the sale,
letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste
Lands of the Crown within such Province, it
shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall
think fit, with the advice of his Executive
Council, by Proclamation in the New Zealand
"Government Gazette," to issue and put in
force such Regulations within such Province,
on a day to be named in the Gazette in which
the same shall be published, not being less
than one calendar month from the publication
thereof.

AND WHEREAS the Superintendent and the
Provincial Council of the Province of Can-
terbury have recommended to me the fol-
lowing Regulations numbered respectively 67
and 68, in substitution for the Clauses bearing
the same numbers in the Regulations now in
force within the said Province, for the sale,
letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste
Lands of the Crown within the said Province.

Now therefore I, the Governor, pursuant to
the authority vested in me in that behalf by
the said recited Act, do hereby, with the ad-
vice of the Executive Council, proclaim and
issue the said Regulations numbered respectively
67 and 68 in substitution as aforesaid, and I
do hereby declare that the same shall come
into force on the 15th day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands afore-
said, this fourteenth day of
August, in the year of onr
Lord One thousand eight hnn-
dred and fifty-six.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

AMENDED REGULATIONS

For the Disposal, Sale, Letting, and Occupa-
tion of the Waste Lands of the Crown in
the Province of Canterbury.

Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive
right in connexion with purchased lands,
whether under the Canterbury Association or
the Crown, shall, from and after the 1st day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 29

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

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

📰 Official notification regarding obedience to Gazette publications

Domain📰 NZ Gazette
KeywordsOfficial Signature, Obedience, Public Notifications
👩‍💼 Officials

C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary

🗺️ Proclamation enacting Waste Lands Regulations for Canterbury Province

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated14 August 1856
KeywordsProclamation, Waste Lands Act 1854, Canterbury Province, Governor, Regulations
👩‍💼 Officials

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary

🗺️ Text of Amended Regulations 67 and 68 for Canterbury Waste Lands

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsCanterbury, Pasturage Licenses, Pre-emptive right, Crown Lands

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