Land Reservation and Appointments




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, and WILLIAM
WOOD, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified and
described in the Schedule hereunder written are required for the purposes mentioned and set opposite
to the description of the said parcels of land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the same have
been respectively excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty by the Order in Council bearing the
date mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.

Description of Land.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Waipara District.
All that parcel of land situate in the Waipara District at
Stony-Hurst, and containing by admeasurement fifteen (15)
acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the road
reserved from high water-mark, the said point being the
South-eastern corner of Section No. 7,531; thence about
North 6° 0' East (magnetic), following the eastern boun-
dary of that section a distance of fourteen (14) chains,
twenty (20) links; thence easterly at a right angle ten
(10) chains; thence southerly at a right angle following
a straight line to the Reserve from high water-mark before
mentioned; and from thence returning westerly along the
same to the commencing point, and numbered 75 (in red)
on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Can-
terbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the
Waipara District aforesaid.

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.
Township of Campbelltown.
All that parcel of land in the Province of Southland,
containing by admeasurement one (1) rood and fourteen
(14) poles, more or less, situated in the Township of Camp-
belltown, commencing at a point bearing 6° 01' from the
North-east corner of Section No. 6, Block No. 1, Camp-
belltown, and two hundred and ten (210) links distant
therefrom, and being bounded towards the West by a line
bearing 9° 01', a distance of two hundred and fifty (250)
links; towards the North-east by a line bearing 115° 07',
a distance of one hundred and fifty-six (156) links; towards
the East by a line bearing 189° 1', a distance of two hun-
dred and seven (207) links; and towards the South by
a line bearing 279° 01', a distance of one hundred and fifty
(150) links, to the commencing point.


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Purpose for which Reserve
is made.

SECOND COLUMN.

Date of Order in
Council excepting
Land from Sale.

For a Landing-place, and 7th January,
other purposes of the 1870.
General Government

As a site for a Custom 7th January,
House and Post Office, 1870.
or other buildings of the
General Government

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
section of an Act of the General Assembly of pursuance and exercise of the said power and
New Zealand, intituled “The Municipal Corporations authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of appoint
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

HENRY DODSON, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Blenheim, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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; and issued at
Wellington, this eighteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.



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🗺️ Reservation of Crown Lands for Public Utility and Government Buildings

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
7 January 1870
Crown Lands, Land reservation, Public utility, Landing-place, Custom House, Post Office, Canterbury, Southland, Stony-Hurst, Campbelltown
  • G. F. Bowen, Governor
  • William Rolleston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
  • William Wood, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Southland

⚖️ Appointment of Blenheim Mayor as Justice of the Peace

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
18 January 1870
Justice of the Peace, Appointment, Mayor, Blenheim, Municipal Corporations Act 1867
  • Henry Dodson (Esquire), Appointed Justice of the Peace

  • His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor
  • W. Gisborne