Numb. 46. 597

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1876.

Land withdrawn from Gold Field, Province of Westland.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, 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 occupation of Crown lands within the province in which such gold field is situate, except so far as such provisions 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, potteries, 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 thereafter 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 therefrom any Crown lands which he may deem it necessary 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 affecting 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 as though such lands had never been comprised in any proclaimed gold field: And whereas by Proclamations bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, certain lands, including the lands mentioned or described in the Schedule hereto, were under and by virtue of the said Act proclaimed and declared to be a gold field: And whereas it is desirable and expedient to withdraw from the said gold field the lands mentioned or described in the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands in the said Schedule hereto mentioned are hereby withdrawn from the said gold field.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land contained within the dotted red lines, being generally, unless otherwise indicated, not more than eleven yards on either side of the line drawn red on the plan marked “P. W. D. 5080,” which plan is, for the purposes of this Proclamation, identified by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, in the Province of Westland. The said line commencing at a point situated in or at the Kawhaka Creek and about 175 chains, more or less, east of the 15th mile-post on the Christchurch Road; proceeding thence in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance of about 300 chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 260 chains, more or less, to Fox’s Township: thence in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance of about 94 chains, more or less, to a point situated about 98 chains, more or less, north-north-east of the 11th mile-post on the Christchurch Road; the said line being the