Numb. 56.

721

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1874.

Station for Quarantine appointed.

(L.S.)
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, amongst other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by any order
notified by Proclamation in the Gazette, appoint
certain stations within or near any harbour or place
within New Zealand for the performance of quaran-
tine under the Third Part of the said Act, where all
vessels liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers,
and persons on board thereof, shall perform the
same : And whereas it is expedient to appoint the
place mentioned in the Schedule hereto as the station
where vessels arriving at the Port of New Plymouth,
liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers, and
persons on board thereof, shall perform the same :

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority vested in me for that purpose, do,
by this Proclamation, order and appoint that the
place named and described in the Schedule hereto
shall be, and the same is hereby appointed to be,
the Station for the performance of Quarantine under
the Third Part of the said Act, in the case of vessels
liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers, and
persons on board thereof, arriving at the Port of
New Plymouth.

SCHEDULE.

THE whole of the island known as Somes Island,
situate in the Port Nicholson Harbour, and the water
frontage around the said island within half a mile
from its shore.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 under the Seal of the

Station for Quarantine appointed.

said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Land withdrawn from Gold Field, Province of
Westland.

(L.S.)
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the forty-eighth
section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," that
any district proclaimed or to be proclaimed a gold
field shall not be subject to any provisions of any
Waste Lands Act or of any other law for the time
being in force regulating the sale, disposal, and occu-
pation of Crown lands within the province in which
such gold field is situate, except so far as such pro-
visions may relate to the granting of mineral leases,
or to the issue of leases or licenses for any of the
following purposes: - Cutting and felling of timber;
raising of lignite and coal; removal of clay for bricks
and pottery; removal of sand, gravel, and stone;
working of quarries; sites for saw-mills, flour-mills,
tanneries, fellmongers' yards, slaughter yards, pot-
teries, and brick kilns; or to the occupation of land
under any depasturing lease or license granted
before the issue of the Proclamation establishing
such gold field, or to land theretofore or which there-
after may be reserved for any public use or purpose;
or except so far as such provisions may specially
authorize the sale or leasing of land within a gold
field: 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 neces-
sary to withdraw; and such lands shall thenceforth be
dealt with, sold, occupied, and disposed of under any
law or laws for the time being in force regulating the
sale, occupation, or disposal of, or in any way affect-
ing or relating to the management of or dealing with,
the Crown lands within the province in which such
gold field is situate, in like manner in every respect