✨ Land Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. II.] THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1857. [NO. 16.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.,
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “the Waste Lands Act, 1856,” it is enacted that no land acquired from the Aboriginal Inhabitants after the passing thereof shall be open for sale or disposal until the Governor shall have notified by Proclamation in the New Zealand Government Gazette that the Native Title has been extinguished over such land.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby proclaim and notify that the Native Title has been extinguished over the two several blocks of land, the boundaries whereof are mentioned or described in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland this twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By his Excellency’s command,
C. W. RICHMOND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE.
Boundaries of the Otaranga Block (Ahuriri.)
PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.
Estimated to contain 50,000 Acres.
The boundary of the land commences at the mouth of the Oaro stream, thence
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1857, No 14
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🗺️ Proclamation of Extinguished Native Title on Otaranga Block
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey29 May 1857
Land, Native Title, Proclamation, Otaranga Block, Ahuriri, Wellington
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
- C. W. Richmond