New Zealand Gazette – 1870 – No. 47

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✨ Land Reservation Order

Numb. 47.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council at any time, and from time to time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her Majesty
or dispose of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such of the Waste Lands of the
Crown, in any of the Provinces of the Colony, as may be required for the purposes of Military Defence, or
for the construction of Trunk Lines of Road, or as sites for Public Buildings for the use of the General
Government, or for other purposes of public utility or convenience :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in
him, doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her Majesty the several parcels of the Waste Lands of the
Crown particularly specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said
Schedule mentioned, and set opposite the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve. Purpose of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Township of Waimate.
All that parcel of land, being sections numbered respec-
tively one hundred and five (105) and one hundred and
six (106), fronting upon Queen Street (opposite the
Police Reserve).
} As a site for Post Office and Telegraph
Office.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1870, No 47

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Order reserving Crown land sections in Waimate, Canterbury, for Post Office.

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated7 September 1870
KeywordsOrder in Council, Crown Land, Reserve, Waimate, Canterbury, Post Office, Telegraph Office
👩‍💼 Officials

G. F. Bowen, Governor
Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

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