Numb. 68.
555

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The County of Westland Act, 1867," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time, as he may think fit, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to make
regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, occupation,
and management of any Waste Lands of the Crown,
and to alter the laws in force within the said County
of Westland at the time of coming into operation of
the said Act regulating the sale, letting, disposal,
occupation, and management of such lands within
the said County of Westland, and to sell, let, and
dispose thereof at such prices, and in such allotments,
and generally in such manner, as he shall deem
expedient, and in like manner to alter, vary, or
annul any such regulations, and to make others;
provided that it shall not be lawful by any such
regulations to authorize the sale of land classified
under such regulations as "rural land" at a less
price than ten shillings per acre; provided also that
nothing in the said seventeenth section of the said
Act contained shall affect or authorize the making of
regulations to affect any promise, contract, or engage-
ment made by or on behalf of Her Majesty pre-
viously to the coming into operation of the said Act,
and then incomplete or unfulfilled:

And whereas certain regulations for the purposes
aforesaid were made by Proclamation under the hand
of the Governor on the twentieth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas it is expedient that additional regu-
lations should be made authorizing the Waste Lands
Board of the said County of Westland to withdraw
lands from sale in certain cases after having been
declared open for sale:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, and in exercise of the above power, doth, by
this present Proclamation, make the following regu-
lations for the purposes hereinbefore recited, and
such regulations shall be held and deemed to apply
to lands comprised in the aforesaid County :-

It shall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board to
withdraw from sale, by Proclamation in the County
of Westland Gazette, any block or blocks of suburban
or rural land which may have been or shall hereafter
be declared open for sale by the said Board, in exer-
cise of the powers given them by section thirty-two
of the aforesaid regulations, and which shall after
such declaration be found to be auriferous.

It shall further be lawful for the Waste Lands
Board to declare the land so withdrawn open for sale
again in accordance with the aforesaid regulations at
their discretion: Provided always that three months'
notice of such sale as last aforesaid shall be pre-
viously given in the County of Westland Gazette.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, at any time subsequent to the Proclamation
of a Gold Field, to withdraw by Proclamation there-
from any Crown Lands which he may deem it
necessary to withdraw, and that such lands shall