Num. 83.

1677

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1897.

Proclaiming the Taking of a Road in Reserve 2332, View Hill Village Settlement, Oxford Survey District.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the consent of the lessees of the lands hereinafter mentioned, and with the consent of the Oxford Road Board, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, do by this notice hereby proclaim as a road the land in the Oxford Survey District mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

All in the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Wakamarina, Nile or Waitakere, Four-mile or Tikopihi, and Aorere Rivers, and Hauhau or Three-mile Creek, together with their Tributaries, in the Provincial Districts of Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland, to be Watercourses.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and fifty-second section of “The Mining Act, 1891” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of any kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be discharged:

And whereas not less than ninety days’ notice has been published, in the manner provided by the said section, that application has been made to the Governor to proclaim the watercourses hereinafter mentioned, and their tributaries, to be watercourses for the purposes of the said section mentioned:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the following rivers and all their tributaries, in the Provincial Districts of Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland, shall be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourses shall be suffered to flow or be discharged; and, with the like advice and consent, His Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

MARLBOROUGH PROVINCIAL DISTRICT.

That river known as the Wakamarina River, which flows northerly from its source for a distance of about twelve miles, to its confluence with the Pelorus River; together with the tributaries thereof.

NELSON PROVINCIAL DISTRICT.

That river known as the Nile or Waitakere River, which flows westerly for a distance of about twelve miles, from its source in the Paparoa Range to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That river known as the Four-mile or Tikopihi River, which flows westerly for a distance of about seven miles, from its source to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That river known as the Aorere River, which flows north-easterly from its source near Mount Domett, for a distance of about thirty-six miles, to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

WESTLAND PROVINCIAL DISTRICT.

That stream known as Hauhau or Three-mile Creek, which flows westerly for a distance of about six miles, from its source to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 issued under the Seal of the