✨ Public Reserves Report
NEW ZEALAND
Government Gazette.
PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
JOHN BLACKLOCK,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. 6.] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1868. [No. 25.
REPORT
OF THE
CHIEF SURVEYOR SOUTHLAND
ON PUBLIC RESERVES.
Chief Surveyor’s Office,
October 3rd, 1868.
His Honor the Superintendent, Southland.
Sir,—I have the honor to submit, in accordance with your instructions, a detailed statement and report of all Public Reserves in the Province of Southland.
The total area of land reserved from sale, including township, village, educational, ferry, cemetery, bush, gravel, sheep, native, temporary, and other reserves is 107,409 acres, but only 38,785 acres of this can be considered as reserved for Provincial Government purposes, or for which grants will have to be obtained from the Crown. Grants for 46 of these containing 1884 acres 3 roods 32 perches, exclusive of those for the reserves in the towns, have been issued under the “Public Reserves Act 1854” to the Superintendent and his successors in trust for the Province; 9268a. Or. 11p. have been recommended by the Provincial Council, under the “Southland Waste Land Act 1865;” the rest of the reserves have been set apart from time to time, some prior to the Separation of this Province from Otago; others such as gravel and bush were selected by the assistant surveyors at the time of survey; a great many, such as the education, ferry, village, and sheep reserves were recommended to be reserved by the Waste Lands Board; and others were withheld from sale by the order of the late Superintendent.
The Waste Lands Acts of 1856 and 1863 provide that reserves shall be made by the Superintendent with the consent of the Provincial Council, but I can find no official record of the assent of the Council having been obtained for the reservation of any of these reserves, and as the question might hereafter arise, whether they had been properly constituted, I will with your Honor’s concurrence, forward a detailed list of those for which you have not yet received a grant from the Crown, and which it is desirable to permanently retain as public reserves, to the Provincial Council, so that they may be now recommended as reserves under the present Land Act.
The reserves (38 in number) temporarily set apart by your Honor under the XVI. clause of the “Southland Waste Land Act 1865,” have been sent from time to time to the Council for confirmation, excepting those made since last session; these I will duly forward in the usual manner.
I have divided the reserves under town and rural, and will for convenience of reference adopt
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