✨ Land Takings and Native Land Restrictions
Num. 107.
1383
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1884.
Land taken for a Road in Peninsula Road District, Provincial District of Otago.
(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1882,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in the Peninsula Road District, Provincial District of Otago:
And whereas the Peninsula Road Board has laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act:
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by section eleven of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a road; and that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the land so described shall become absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, discharged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates, or interests of what kind soever, for use as a road.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area of land in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 8 perches, more or less, being a road-line through Section No. 35, Block III., Otago Peninsula District; commencing at a point on the north-eastern boundary of said section distant from the northern corner of the same 580 links. Bounded as follows: North-westerly by part of said Section No. 35 in lines, 792 links; by Section No. 34 of said block, 1190 links; by other part of said Section No. 35 in lines, 3141 links; South-westerly by a road-line, 51 links; South-easterly by other part of said Section No. 35 in lines, 5103 links; North-easterly by a road-line, 50 links: be all the aforesaid linkages and area either more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 12029, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”
(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:
It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 Wellington, this eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece of land containing 205 acres, more or less, being the land known as “Moroa” in the public map of Block XII., Mangaone Survey District, and being the whole
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🗺️ Land taken for a Road in Otago
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey16 September 1884
Land taking, Public Works Act, Road construction, Otago
- W. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
- Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works
🪶 Notice of Removal of Native Land Restrictions
🪶 Māori Affairs11 September 1884
Native Land Laws, Land restrictions, Moroa, Mangaone Survey District
- W. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
- J. Ballance, Minister for Native Affairs
NZ Gazette 1884, No 107