Land Proclamations




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 47

Declaring Land taken for a Public Work, and not required for such Public Work, to be Crown Land.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein mentioned:

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government work and not required for that purpose the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was taken for a road: And whereas such road has been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the land contained therein to be Crown land:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor to declare such land to be Crown land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that such land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of stopped road declared to be Crown land:—

A. B. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 1 30 O.L.C. 4 and Section 5 (C.L.).
2 * 3 4

Situated in Block VI, Kawakawa Survey District (S.O. 19154).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41057, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 seventeen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Declaring Land taken for a Public Work, and not required for such Public Work, to be Crown Land.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein mentioned:

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government work and not required for that purpose the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was taken for a road: And whereas such road has been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the land contained therein to be Crown land:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor to declare such land to be Crown land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that such land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of stopped road declared to be Crown land: 37 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Crown land, Block II, Tangitu Survey District (Taranaki R.D.).

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41104, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 seventeen.

W. FRASER.
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Revoking Part of a Proclamation taking Land for a Further Portion of the Kawakawa–Hokianga Railway and for Road Approaches thereto.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, it is enacted that if at any time after the issue or making of any Proclamation taking land under the Public Works Act, 1908, and before the payment or award of any compensation in respect of the taking thereof, it is found that the land or any part thereof is not required for the purpose for which it was taken, or that any error in form or substance exists in or in relation to that Proclamation or the making or gazetting thereof, the Governor may, by a subsequent Proclamation gazetted, revoke the former Proclamation, either wholly or so far as he thinks necessary:

And whereas it is found that portion of the land taken for a further portion of the Kawakawa–Hokianga Railway and for road approaches thereto by a Proclamation made under the Public Works Act, 1908, dated the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen (hereinafter termed “the said Proclamation”), and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 131, page 4219, of the third day of the following month, is not now required for the purpose for which it was taken:

And whereas compensation in respect of the taking of the said land has not been paid or awarded:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby revoke so much of the said Proclamation as affects the land described in the Schedule hereto.



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🗺️ Declaration of Land as Crown Land

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
10 March 1917
Crown Land, Public Works, Road, Kawakawa Survey District, Auckland Land District
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor
  • W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works

🗺️ Declaration of Land as Crown Land

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
10 March 1917
Crown Land, Public Works, Road, Tangitu Survey District, Taranaki Land District
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor
  • W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works

🗺️ Revocation of Proclamation for Railway Land

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Revocation, Proclamation, Railway, Kawakawa–Hokianga Railway, Public Works
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor