OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin: Wednesday, October 7, 1874. No. 929

PROCLAMATION.

Declaring certain Crown Lands in the Otago Gold Field open for sale or selection.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago in Council.

WHEREAS by the 49th section of the “Gold Field Act 1866,” it is enacted that if the Depasturing Lease or License, shall be cancelled over any Crown Lands within a gold field, it shall be lawful for the Governor to declare such lands or any part thereof, open for sale or selection. And whereas Thomas Dick, Esquire, then the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers delegated to and vested in him in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described, including amongst other lands described in the Schedule hereto, to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the Gold Fields Act 1866,” to be called “Otago Gold Field:”

And whereas by the “Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance, it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand, and under the public seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations he may think fit, all or any such powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council, by the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” as under or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council; and it may be revoked any such delegation: And Whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Executive Council Ordinance 1861,” it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council:

And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him by the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” and subject to its provisions delegated unto the Executive Government for the time being of the Province of Otago all such powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said last-mentioned Act, as under or by virtue of the 109th section of the said last-mentioned Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago. And whereas the said lands described in the Schedule hereto are Crown Lands subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said 49th section of the “Otago Gold Fields Act, 1866,” and the Depasturing Lease over the said lands, has by proclamation dated the 28th day of December, 1870, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette of date the 4th day of January, 1871, been cancelled. And whereas the Executive Government of Otago have determined to declare the said lands open for sale on selection. Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, and by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand in Council under the authority of the “Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” and of any and every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that from and after the third day of November, 1874, the lands described in the schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection in sections of such size and form as are shown on the maps of the said lands in the Land Office, Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago in the Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement four hundred and fifty-eight (458) acres more or less situate in the south-eastern Pastoral District being part of Run No. 137, Commencing Trigonometrical Station E Beaumont District and proceeding due east three thousand three hundred and forty-three (3343) links; thence north-east along road line four thousand eight hundred (4800) links; thence westerly along road line...