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667

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1876.

Lands withdrawn from Gold Field, Province of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 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 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, occupa-
tion, 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 pro-
claimed gold field: And whereas by Proclamations
bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the nine-
teenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, certain lands, including the lands men-
tioned 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 with-
drawn from the said gold field.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces or parcels of land contained within
the red lines and coloured red, being generally, unless
otherwise delineated, not more than one hundred and
ten yards on either side of the line drawn red on the
plan marked "P.W.D., 5243" which plan is, for the
purposes of this Proclamation, identified by the signa-
ture of the Honorable Edward Richardson, Minister for
Public Works, and is to be deposited in the office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, in
the Province of Westland. The said line commencing,
Firstly, at a point on Kawhaka Creek, about four miles
easterly from the Christchurch Road, the same being
the eastern end of Dam No. 2, or Upper Dam; thence
westerly to Dam No 1, or Lower Dam; thence wes-
terly and north-westerly, a distance of about four and
a half miles more or less, crossing the mail route to
Canterbury or Christchurch Road west of the 17th
mile post; thence in a westerly direction along the
southern watershed of hills to a point about two miles
more or less west of Fox's township, a distance of
about six and a half miles; thence in a north-westerly
direction along the northern watershed of hills on the
south side of the right-hand branch of Waimea Creek,
a distance of about two miles; thence in a southerly
direction crossing the headwaters of Liverpool Bill's
and Pretty Woman's Gullies, and along western and
northern watershed of hills to Ballarat Hill, a distance
of about three and a half miles, and terminating at or