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Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1871 – No. 17

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✨ Land Reservations and Orders in Council

TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1871.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

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.
PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. Town of New Plymouth. All that parcel of land, containing three (3) acres, more or less, being part of the Marsland Hill Reserve. Bounded towards the North by Downe-street, six hundred and seventy-six (676) links; towards the East by Robe-street, one hundred and seventy (170) links; again towards the North by the termination of Robe-street, and by a line one hundred (100) links; again towards the East by a curved line; towards the South by a line about six hundred (600) links; and towards the West by Town Allotment 818; as delineated upon the plan of Marsland Hill Reserve, in the General Crown Lands Office.	For a site for a Gaol.

Description of Reserve.

Purpose of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. Town of New Plymouth. All that parcel of land, containing three (3) acres, more or less, being part of the Marsland Hill Reserve. Bounded towards the North by Downe-street, six hundred and seventy-six (676) links; towards the East by Robe-street, one hundred and seventy (170) links; again towards the North by the termination of Robe-street, and by a line one hundred (100) links; again towards the East by a curved line; towards the South by a line about six hundred (600) links; and towards the West by Town Allotment 818; as delineated upon the plan of Marsland Hill Reserve, in the General Crown Lands Office.

For a site for a Gaol.

WILLIAM FOX.

FORSTER GOBING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

To FREDERIC ALONZO CARRINGTON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written, are required for the purposes mentioned and set opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of Land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the same have been respectively excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty by the Orders in Council bearing the dates mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

VUW Te Waharoa — Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1871, No 17

The Taranaki Provincial Council building (depicted) was on lower Brougham Street in New Plymouth.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Order in Council for Land Reservations

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated11 May 1871
KeywordsOrder in Council, land reservations, public utility, military defence, roads, public buildings, Taranaki, New Plymouth
👩‍💼 Officials

G. F. Bowen, Governor
William Fox
Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

🗺️ Notice of Land Reservations to Superintendent of Taranaki

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsLand reservations, notice, Superintendent of Taranaki, public purposes
👩‍💼 Officials

G. F. Bowen, Governor
Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki

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