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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1875.

Land reserved in Province of Westland for
Immigration purposes.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixty-first section of "The
Immigration and Public Works Act Amend-
ment Act, 1871," it is enacted that in any province
in which there are not at any time, in the opinion of
the Governor, waste lands of the Crown set apart or
taken under the provisions of the said "Immigration
and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," or
any other Act, for the purpose of furnishing means
for defraying the costs of railways or other like
purposes connected with railways, sufficient in
quantity and suitable in quality and situation for
settling immigrants, the Governor, on the recom-
mendation of the Minister, may from time to time,
by Proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, reserve and set apart any waste lands of the
Crown within such province for the purposes of
immigration, and to be dealt with under the said
Act: And whereas there are not now, in the opinion
of me, the Most Honorable the Marquis of Nor-
manby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
waste lands of the Crown in the Province of West-
land set apart or taken under the provisions of the
said Act, or any other Act, for the purpose of
furnishing means for defraying the costs of railways,
or other like purposes connected with railways, suffi-
cient in quantity and suitable in quality and situation
for settling immigrants:

Now therefore, I, the Most Honorable the Marquis
of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
vested in me by the said section of the said Act, and
all other powers enabling me in this behalf, and on
the recommendation of the Minister for Immigration

do, by this Proclamation, reserve and set apart the
land described in the Schedule hereto, being waste
lands within the Province of Westland, for the
purposes of immigration, and to be dealt with under
the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of West-
land comprising sixty thousand (60,000) acres, more
or less, and extending from the south side of Haast
River to a point two miles south of the Arawata
River; bounded on the West by the sea coast; on
the East by a line four miles distant from and
generally parallel with the coast; on the North by
the Haast River; and on the South by the Smooth-
water River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House at
Wellington, this ninth day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!