New Zealand Gazette – 1876 – No. 14

Page 183

✨ Colliery Reserve Commission

Numb. 14.
183

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1876.

WESTPORT COLLIERY RESERVE COMMISSION.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1876.

THE following Royal Commission issued by His Excellency, the Report of the
Commissioners, and other documents relating thereto, are published for
general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

I.—ROYAL COMMISSION, AND EXTENSION THEREOF.

NORMANBY, Governor.

(L.S.)
To all to whom these Presents shall come; and to THOMAS SHAILER
WESTON, Esquire, of Hokitika, in the Province of Westland, a
Judge of the District Court; and RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esquire, of
Queenstown, in the Province of Otago, Resident Magistrate,
Greeting :-

WHEREAS in the late sitting of the General Assembly, held in Wellington, in
New Zealand, a Committee of the House of Representatives was, on or about the
eighth day of October last past, appointed to inquire into and report upon certain
matters connected with the Colliery Reserve at Westport: And whereas, on or
about the fifteenth day of the said month of October, the said Committee reported
(amongst other things) as follows:-" 1. A Royal Commission to be appointed to
inquire into the whole circumstances on the spot: 2. To report fully what claims
or liabilities are in existence upon the Reserve, whether legal or equitable: 3. To
report also whether the original character of the claims or liabilities has been
changed or modified by subsequent action of the Legislature, the Colonial or
Provincial Government, or of the parties themselves: 4. To recommend explicitly
in what way each such claim or liability, or each class of such claims or liabilities,
should be dealt with, in accordance with justice to the individuals concerned and
to the interests of the Colony:" And whereas by a Resolution of the said House
of Representatives, passed on or about the said fifteenth day of October, the said
Report was adopted by the said House of Representatives: And whereas it is
expedient that effect should be given to the said Report, and that a Commission
should be appointed for the purposes in the said Report mentioned, and to make
inquiry therein, and in the several matters and things herein set forth, in the
manner hereinafter provided: