New Zealand Gazette – 1885 – No. 7

Page 117

✨ Land Withdrawal Proclamation

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885.

Land in Otago withdrawn from Deferred-payment System:

(L.s.)

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section fifty-three of "The Land Act, 1877," I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Proclamation enumerated in the First Schedule hereto in so far as it relates to the land named in the Second Schedule hereto; and I do further proclaim and declare that the land described in the Second Schedule aforesaid shall, as from the day of the date hereof, be withdrawn from the operation of the deferred-payment system.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Nature
of Instrument.

By whom issued.

Authority for issuing.

Date when published.

Proclamation .. Superintendent of Otago .. "Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872" .. Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 1001, 5th January, 1876.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

LAUDER DISTRICT.

Section. Block Area.

17 III. A. R. P. 100 0 0
18 " 100 0 0

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 Christchurch, this seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,

(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 134, of the 24th December, 1884, page 1735, at the 30th line from the top, left column, for "miles" read "links."

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1885, No 7

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Proclamation: Land Withdrawal from Deferred-Payment System

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated23 January 1885
KeywordsLand Act, 1877, Otago, Deferred-payment System, Lauder District
👩‍💼 Officials

William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor
Edward Richardson, for the Minister of Lands

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