Numb. 100.

2231

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1901.

Proclaiming Garden Gully, in the Land Districts of Otago and Southland, together with its Tributaries, to be a Watercourse for the Deposit of Tailings.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and eight of “The Mining Act, 1898,” as amended by section twenty-two of “The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1899” (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), it is enacted that on application in that behalf the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation, constitute and set apart the whole or any part of any watercourse to be a watercourse into which may be discharged any tailings, débris, and waste water produced by or resulting from mining operations carried on under the said Acts, and in which or on the banks of which mining operations may be lawfully carried on:

And whereas such application as aforesaid in respect of the watercourse described in the Schedule hereto was duly notified and gazetted, as provided by the said Acts, on the date set out in the description of such watercourse in the said Schedule:

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

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 Acts, doth hereby constitute and set apart the watercourse described in the Schedule hereto to be a watercourse into which may be discharged any tailings, débris, and waste waters produced by or resulting from mining operations carried on under the said Acts, and in which or on the banks of which mining operations may be lawfully carried on; and doth hereby further prescribe that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICTS.

That tributary of the Waikaka River known as Garden Gully, which flows easterly from its source in Section No. 12, Block V., Chatton Survey District, for a distance of about five miles to its confluence with the Waikaka River; and also the several tributaries thereof. Date of gazetting of notice of application to proclaim, 20th June, 1901.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Road-lines as closed through Block VIII., Waimate Survey District, Hawera County.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS in terms of section sixty-nine of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” it is provided that in any case where, on the report of the Surveyor-General, it appears that unformed and unused road-lines intersect any land acquired under this Act, and are not suitable to the subdivision of the land, the Governor may close such road-lines, and declare them to be subject to this Act: And whereas the Surveyor-General has so reported:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the herein-in-part-recited Act, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as closed the road-lines mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and declare them to be subject to this Act.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Taranaki Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured thereon as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!