New Zealand Gazette – 1912 – No. 75

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✨ Land Proclamations

Num. 75 2827

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912.

Additional Land at Stirling taken for the Purposes of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to take further land at Stirling, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-nine and one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

Approximate Areas of the Parcels of Land taken.	Being Portion of	Situated in Block	Situated in Survey District of
A. R. P.
0 1 23·3	Sections Nos. 1 and 2	XIII	North Molyneux.
0 2 26·7	"	"	"
0 0 5·2	Section No. 382a	"	"
0 0 6	"	"	"
0 0 12·2	Section No. 7	XII	"
0 1 22·5	(S.O. Plan No. 7189)	"	"

All in the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 19785, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red, green, yellow, blue, and purple.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the land; and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time after the contract of purchase has been so made, declare that the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the King, and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become Crown land :

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1912, No 75

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Additional land at Stirling taken for Waitaki-Bluff Railway

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated25 September 1912
KeywordsLand acquisition, Railway, Stirling, Otago Land District, Public Works Act
👩‍💼 Officials

W. H. Herries, Minister of Railways

🪶 Proclaiming Native land to be Crown land

Domain🪶 Māori Affairs
KeywordsNative land, Crown land, Native Land Act, Proclamation

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