✨ Land Reservation Order
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G. F. Bowen, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of January, 1869.
Present:
WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time, and from time to time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her Majesty, or dispose of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such of the Waste Lands of the Crown, in any of the Provinces of the Colony, as may be required for the purposes of military defence, or for the construction of trunk lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the use of the General Government, or for other purposes of public utility or convenience:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in him, doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her Majesty the several parcels of the Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule mentioned, and set opposite the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively.
SCHEDULE.
| Description of Reserve. | Purpose of Reserve. |
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PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.
All that parcel of land in the town of Invercargill, containing by admeasurement one acre one rood and five perches, more or less, bounded towards the North by the Reserve for Public Gardens, granted to the Superintendent of Southland, four hundred and forty-two (442) links; towards the East by Leven street, three hundred (300) links; towards the South by Sney-street, four hundred and thirteen (413) links; towards the West by the (Oreti) Railway Reserve, three hundred and one (301) links.
All that parcel of land, being so much and such part of the Waste Lands of the Crown as is included between two lines drawn on each side of, parallel to, and at a distance of a chain from the line of electric telegraph established in the said Province from the Bluff to Invercargill, and from Invercargill to the Mataura River, is required for the purpose of the electric telegraph.
Site for Supreme Court.
Purpose of Electric Telegraph.
TOWN OF ONEHUNGA.
Sections Nos. one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4) of Block I., and sections Nos. thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), and sixteen (16), of Block IV.
Sites for Public Buildings or other purposes of the General Government.
Forseen Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by Kerr & Co., of Invercargill, N.Z., Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.
Southland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 5
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🗺️ Order in Council reserving Crown lands
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey7 January 1869
Waste Lands Act, land reservation, military defence, public buildings, telegraph lines, Invercargill, Onehunga
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- Forseen Goring, Clerk of Executive Council