Numb. 16.

659

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1903.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1903.

Proclaiming Hokitika River, in the Land District of Westland, together with its Tributaries, to be Watercourses 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 watercourses 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 watercourses 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 watercourses described in the Schedule hereto to be watercourses 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 May, one thousand nine hundred and three.

SCHEDULE.

LAND DISTRICT OF WESTLAND.

That river known as the Hokitika River, which flows north-westerly for a distance of about thirty-seven miles from its source in the Southern Alps to a right line between the south-western corner of Reserve No. 101 in the Township of Kanieri, on the north bank of the Hokitika River, and the south-eastern corner of Ferry Reserve No. 67, on the south bank of the said river, together with the tributaries thereof, excepting Raft Creek, White’s Creek, Duck Creek, and the Kokatahi River, with their tributaries. Date of gazetting of notice, 5th September, 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 twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Taking the Milbourne Estate under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

(L.S.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one, it was therein stated that it was the intention of the Governor to take compulsorily, under the powers in that behalf conferred by “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” the land mentioned in such notice:

And whereas, in pursuance of such notice, a claim for compensation was made, and the claim has been determined by the Compensation Court in the manner provided by such Act:

And whereas, in pursuance of the said Act, an order was made by the said Court on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, declaring the land which the Minister is entitled to take, being the land specified in the Schedule hereto, and also declaring the amount of compensation and costs to be paid in respect to the taking of such land :