New Zealand Gazette – 1863 – No. 26

Page 261

✨ Company Registration and Land Awards



THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 261

Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that
I have Registered a Memorandum of Asso-
ciation, with Articles of Association, establish-
ing a Company, (with limited liability of the
shareholders therein) entitled,
"THE WHITE SWAN GOLD MINING COM-
PANY, LIMITED,"
the objects of which are "the working and
" mining of a Gold bearing Quartz Reef at
"Coromandel, in the Province of Auckland,
"belonging to the Company, and contained in
"the Claim known as the White Swan Claim,
"situate on the Lower Driving Creek, and
"such other Claims and parts of Claims as the

"Company may from time to time acquire,
"and obtaining or extracting gold and other
" minerals from the same, with or without
machinery, and by any means that may be
"considered proper, and the doing all such
"other things as are incidental or conducive
" to the attainment of the above objects ":--
And that in pursuance of the provisions of
"The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I
have issued a Certificate of Incorporation of
the said Company, bearing date this twenty-
fourth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants' Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1863.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15,
Session 11, of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and
decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto, from, through, or under the New Zealand
Company, Report that the claims of the undermentioned persons having been duly referred to
me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown
Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed Schedule.
DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Name of Claimant. Commissioner's Decision.
1290 1556 Harry Macdonald Entitled to a Grant of Sections Nos. 464, 465, 471 on the plan of the Town of Wanganui. Also to a Grant of three hundred and twelve acres parts of Sections Nos. 134, 135, 137 on the Right Bank of the Wanganui River.
1291 1589 Henry Edwards Entitled to a Grant of Rural Section No. 118, Upper Hutt district, in the Province of Wellington.
1292 1478 Solomon Levy Entitled to a Grant of the Section No. 342, on the plan of the City of Wellington, subject to a direction of the Commis- sioner.
1293 1577 William Henry Meek Entitled to a Grant of Section No. 71, on the plan of the City of Wellington.
1294 1557 Richard Prouse, junr. Entitled to a Grant of Rural Section No. 10, on the plan of the Wainuiomata district.
1295 1373 William Wakeham - Entitled to a grant of one third of Section No. 3, on the plan of the Wainuiomata district.
1296 1605 William Prouse Entitled to a Grant of one third of Section No. 3, in the Wai- nuiomata district.
1297 1522 George Paling Campion Entitled to a Grant of the Section No. 753, on the plan of the City of Wellington.

Printed and published by W. C. WILSON, for the New Zealand Government, at the Printing Office,
Shortland-crescent.



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🏭 Registration of 'The White Swan Gold Mining Company, Limited' (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
24 June 1863
Company Registration, Limited Liability, Gold Mining, Coromandel, Joint Stock Companies Act
  • JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies

🗺️ Decisions on New Zealand Company Land Claims and Entitlements

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
1 June 1863
Land Claim, Crown Grant, Wanganui, Wellington, Upper Hutt, Wainuiomata
8 names identified
  • Harry Macdonald, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • Henry Edwards, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • Solomon Levy, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • William Henry Meek, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • Richard Prouse (junior), Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • William Wakeham, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • William Prouse, Entitled to Crown Grant of land
  • George Paling Campion, Entitled to Crown Grant of land

  • DAVID LEWIS, Commissioner