New Zealand Gazette – 1859 – No. 29

Page 120

✨ Proclamation of Land Regulations

Numb. 29. 120

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1859.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and
its Dependencies, 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 such 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 Auck-
land have recommended to me the following
Regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and
occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown
within the said Province,

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, pur-
suant to the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act, do hereby with
the advice of the Executive Council, proclaim
and issue the following Regulations; And I
do hereby declare that the same shall come
into force on the first day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
at Auckland, this twenty-sixth
day of August, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
FRED. WHITAKER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

LAND REGULATIONS
OF THE
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

I.
General Regulations.

In the construction of these Regulations
the term "Waste Lands" shall mean such lands
within the Province of Auckland as are already
subject to the disposal of the Provincial Govern-
ment thereof, and all other lands over which his
Excellency the Governor shall hereafter notify,
by proclamation in the "New Zealand Gazette,"
that the Native title has been extinguished.
All Waste Lands shall, from and after the
day on which these Regulations shall come into
operation be sold, let, and disposed of as in
these Regulations provided, and not otherwise.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1859, 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

🗺️ Proclamation of Land Regulations for the Province of Auckland

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated26 August 1859
KeywordsProclamation, Land Regulations, Auckland Province, Waste Lands Act 1854, Land Disposal
👩‍💼 Officials

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Fred. Whitaker

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