✨ Mining Proclamation
Num. 21. 541
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1899.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1899.
Proclaiming Rough or Brown’s Creek, in the Land District
of Nelson, together with its Tributaries, 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 Rough or Brown’s Creek and all its tributaries, in the Land District of Nelson, 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-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
That creek known as Rough or Brown’s Creek, which flows westerly from its source in the Brunner Range until it discharges into the Inangahua River; 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 said Colony; at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.
Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1899, No 21
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🌾 Proclamation of Rough or Brown’s Creek as a Watercourse
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources28 February 1899
Mining, Watercourse, Proclamation, Nelson Land District, Rough or Brown’s Creek
- Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
- A. J. Cadman, Minister of Mines
- Alex. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council