New Zealand Gazette – 1878 – No. 21

Page 293

✨ Land Proclamations Otago



Numb. 21.

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DIEU ET MON DROID
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1878.

Declaring Lands open for Sale within Mining
Districts, Otago.

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

WHEREAS by the one hundred and fifty-fourth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted
that the Governor, by Proclamation, may from time
to time declare any Crown lands within any mining
district, not held under license or lease at the date of
such Proclamation, or over which the license or lease
has been cancelled, to be open for sale or selection, in
sections of such size and form, and on such date, as
he may determine; and any lands so proclaimed may
thereafter be sold at a like price and subject to the
like terms and conditions, or as near thereto as may
be, as Crown lands of the same class not within a
mining district: And the Governor may from time
to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Proclama-
tion:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustine Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands
specified in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale,
and that the fifteenth day of April next ensuing
shall be the day on which the said lands shall
be so open for sale in allotments, as surveyed and
marked on the survey map in the Office of the Chief
Surveyor, Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

Section. Block. District. Acreage.
7 V. Table Hill District 164 A. 2 R. 21 P.
16 V. ” 108 1 4
21 V. ” 237 2 3
23 V. ” 141 0 23
26 V. ” 215 2 21
28 V. ” 199 3 34
29 V. ” 114 2 24
33 V. ” 44 1 22
37 V. ” 14 2 12
38 V. ” 183 0 5
39 V. ” 201 2 0
40 V. ”

-be all the aforesaid areas more or less, save and

except an area of land of one chain wide on each bank
of Tokomairiro River reserved for mining purposes.

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 Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; 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 said Colony, at the
Government House, at Auckland, this
sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Lands in Otago for Agricultural Leases
and Sale on Deferred Payments.

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

WHEREAS by the fifty-fourth section of "The
Mines Act, 1877," it is, amongst other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to
cause Crown lands situate within a gold field to be
selected and set apart for the purpose of granting
agricultural leases thereon and therefor; or for
alienation by occupation licenses on deferred pay-
ments under any law for the time being in force in
the land district in which such mining district is
situate:

And whereas the lands described in the First
Schedule hereto are Crown lands subject to be dealt
with under the provisions of the said Act, and it is
deemed expedient to set the same apart for the pur-



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🗺️ Declaring Lands open for Sale within Mining Districts, Otago

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
6 March 1878
Proclamation, Crown lands, Sale, Mining Districts, Otago, Table Hill District, Tokomairiro River
  • NORMANBY, Governor
  • J. BALLANCE

🗺️ Setting apart Lands in Otago for Agricultural Leases and Sale on Deferred Payments

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Proclamation, Crown lands, Agricultural leases, Deferred payments, Gold field, Otago
  • NORMANBY, Governor