New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 22

Page 791

✨ Land Taking and Erratum

Hum. 22.

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1909.

Lands taken for the Purposes of Waterworks in Block XI, Belmont, and Block III, Port Nicholson Survey Districts, Onslow Borough and Johnsonville Town District.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1908,” for a certain work, to wit, for the purposes of a waterwork in Blocks XI, Belmont, and III, Port Nicholson Survey Districts:

And whereas the Council of the Borough of Onslow has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,” and “The Public Works Act, 1908,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of waterworks in Blocks XI, Belmont, and III, Port Nicholson Survey Districts, and shall vest in the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Onslow.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area of the Parcels of Land taken.	Being Portion of Section No.	Situated in Block	Situated in Survey District of	Shown on Plan	Coloured on Plan
A. R. P.
50 2 28·0	94, 95, Johnsonville Town District and Onslow Borough	XI	Belmont ..	R. 10690	Pink.
11 3 26·7	95, Johnsonville Town District	"	" ..	"	Green.
15 2 30·9	95,	"	" ..	"	Blue.
27 1 8·0	107,	"	" ..	"	Purple.
0 0 25·2	4, Onslow Borough ..	"	" ..	"	Grey.
7 1 14·0	3,	"	" ..	"	"
12 3 2·0	3,	"	" ..	"	"
16 2 28·5	2,	"	" ..	"	Pink.
1 3 35·0	128,	III	Port Nicholson ..	"	Brown, edged red.

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

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

A. W. HOGG,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

ERRATUM.—In description of Dry River Road, Schedule to Order in Council of 24th February, 1909, published in New Zealand Gazette No. 18, page 637, of 4th instant, declaring Dyer Settlement roads to be county roads, for “2 miles 20 chains” read “6 miles 20 chains.”

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1909, No 22

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Lands taken for waterworks purposes in Onslow Borough and Johnsonville Town District

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated10 March 1909
KeywordsLand taking, Waterworks, Public Works Act, Onslow Borough, Johnsonville Town District, Belmont, Port Nicholson
👩‍💼 Officials

Plunket, Governor
William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies
A. W. Hogg, Minister in Charge of Roads Department

🏗️ Erratum regarding Dry River Road description

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsErratum, Dry River Road, Dyer Settlement roads, road length correction

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.

New Zealand Gazette Index