✨ Immigration and Gold Reward Notices
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[FORM OF APPLICATION.]
I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the
passage to Wellington, under the Immi-
gration Regulations of 1st September,
1864, of
Name __
Age ____
Calling __
Address in full ____
For which ____
of __
will become surety.
Dated the ___ of __ 186__
(Signature and address
of applicant)
£1000 Reward.
AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1864.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
the Provincial Government of Welling-
ton will award a sum or sums of Money, not
exceeding in the whole the amount of One
Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any
one person, or distributable rateably amongst
any number of persons, who shall discover
and make known to the Government the
existence of an available Gold field within
the Province of Wellington.
All claims for the payment of this Reward,
or any portion of it, are to be sent in to, the
Government, addressed to the Provincial
Secretary in the first instance, by whom
they will be afterwards referred to the
decision of a Commission consisting of three
persons, one to be named by the Welling-
ton Chamber of Commerce and two by the
Superintendent.
By “Available Gold Field” is meant a
district within which Gold shall be judged
by the Commissioners to exist capable of
affording employment to a body of not less
than six hundred (600) diggers at a re-
munerative rate of wages.
I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.
Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by Joseph
Bull, Printer for the time being for such Government.
Wellington Provincial Gazette 1864, No 45
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Immigration Regulations Application Form
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🛂 ImmigrationImmigration, Passage, Wellington, Application Form
🌾 Reward for Discovery of Available Gold Field
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources18 January 1864
Gold Field, Reward, Discovery, Wellington Province
- I. E. Featherston, Superintendent