New Zealand Gazette – 1899 – No. 15

Page 433

✨ Land Proclamations and Auction Notices

Num. 15 433

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1899.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1899.

Proclaiming Ngapaeruru Local Land District.

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

WHEREAS by the twenty-third section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from time to time establish and define, abolish, alter, or reconstitute local districts for the sale or disposal of land, and in like manner from time to time may appoint land offices and land officers or other persons for conducting sales of land in such local districts, and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of Crown lands, and for generally carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the district described in the Schedule hereto is hereby established, defined, and constituted a local district for the sale and disposal of land under the said Act, and that the Land Office the name of which is in the said Schedule set opposite the name of the said local district is appointed the Land Office for the said local district.

SCHEDULE.

Name and Description of Local District.	Names of Land Offices.
NGAPAERURU LOCAL LAND DISTRICT.	Principal Land Office, Napier.
All that area contained in Section 2, Block VIII., Tahoraite S.D. ; Sections 1 to 9, Block I., 8 to 14, Block II., 1 to 14, Block V., and 1 to 10, Block VI., Mangatoro S.D.	Local Land Office, Courthouse, Dannevirke.

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 sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notifying Lands in Marlborough for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Monday, the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Section.	Block.	Area.	Upset Price.
		A. R. P.	£ s. d.
16	III.	384 0 0	134 8 0
6	IV.
Weighted with £38 15s. cost of survey.
5	IV.	567 0 0	226 16 0
Weighted with £41 13s. 4d. cost of survey, and £80 valuation for improvements.

ONAMALUTU SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 5 | X. | | |
| 3 | XIII. | 1,120 0 0 | 336 0 0 |
| 10 | XIV. | | |
| 7, 8, 11 | XIV. | 92 2 0 | 69 7 6 |
| 9 | XV. | | |
| Weighted with £30 valuation for improvements. | | | |

HODDER SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 3 | IX. | 297 0 0 | 74 5 0 |
| Weighted with £29 14s. cost of survey, and £25 valuation for improvements. | | | |

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1899, No 15

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🗺️ Proclamation establishing Ngapaeruru Local Land District

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated16 February 1899
KeywordsLand district, Proclamation, Ngapaeruru, Napier, Dannevirke
👩‍💼 Officials

Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
W. M. Hall-Jones, Minister of Lands

🗺️ Notice of public auction for lands in Marlborough and surrounding districts

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated13 February 1899
KeywordsLand sale, Public auction, Marlborough, Onamalutu, Hodder, Upset price
👩‍💼 Officials

Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
John McKenzie, Minister of Lands

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