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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature hereunto 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 IV.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1857. [No. 9.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1857.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent has directed the publication of the following letter with its enclosures for general information.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.
Chief Land Commissioner's Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1857.
SIR,—I have the honor to call your attention to a "Notice to Applicants for Runs" on lands in which the Native Title had not yet been extinguished, published in the Provincial Gazette of the 20th February last, and by which I required all parties "who had made or might thereafter make" Applications for Runs on such lands to pay a Deposit, as in the case of Runs on purchased lands.
The circumstances under which the above Notice was issued these:
I found on taking charge of this Department, that during the earlier part of Mr. Bell's tenure of the office of Land Commissioner, he had received and registered applications for Runs on Lands not purchased from the Natives, without payment of a Deposit; but that subsequently he had declined altogether to register such applications either with or without deposit. In the Hawke's Bay District it appeared that Mr. Domett had always registered such applications, and as I believed without payment of Deposits. I have since learned however that after the issue of the Pasture Regulations of 1855, he, in some instances at least, required a Deposit, and as appears from a written statement made by Mr. Collins of which I enclose a copy, he admitted applications accompanied by Deposits, for the same Runs for which he had before received applications without Deposits; and this he did without giving any notice, public or otherwise, to the parties making the earlier applications.
My intention in issuing the Notice above referred to was, to treat all applications without deposit as null and void; not being aware that Mr. Domett had taken Deposits in some cases, nor that he had given such pledges in others
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1857, No 9
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🏛️ Official notification regarding Gazette communications
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationOfficial communications, Gazette, Provincial Secretary
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
🗺️ Publication of correspondence regarding land applications
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey14 May 1857
Land applications, Runs, Native Title, Land Commissioner
- Mr. Bell, Former Land Commissioner
- Mr. Domett, Former Land Commissioner
- Mr. Collins, Provided written statement
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary