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Crown Grants.
New Zealand Company's Land Claimants' Office,
Wellington, October, 1864.
I DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance, ... hear and decide claims to Land by persons claiming title thereto from through or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claims of the undermentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, ... persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed Schedule.
DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.
SCHEDULE.
| No. of Report. | No. of Claim. | NAME OF CLAIMANT. | COMMISSIONER'S DECISION. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1354 | 1499 | Ewen Cameron Macdonald | Entitled to Grants of Sections 246 and 247 in the Town of Wanganui, and of Rural Sections 151 and 152 left bank of the River. |
| 1355 | 1621 and 1622 | Edmund Storr Halswell | Entitled to Grants of the following Sections in the City of Wellington, viz., 21, 217, 242, 252, 289, 305, 492, 494, 552, 589, 590, 648, 725, 906, 914; and of Section 258 in the Town of Wanganui; also, to Grants of the following Rural Sections, viz., 23, Kaiwarra District; 4, 6, and 8 Horokiwi Road District; 11, 16, and 28 Horokiwi Valley District; 146, Upper Hutt District; and to Rural Section 140, left bank Wanganui River District. |
| 1356 | 1537 | Charles Howard | Entitled to a Grant of Section 722, in the City of Wellington. |
| 1357 | 1625 | John Edward Wainhouse | Entitled to Grants of the following Sections in the City of Wellington, viz., 267, 337, 347, 364, 380, 675, and 1040. |
| 1358 | 1626 | John Edward Wainhouse | Entitled to Grants of Rural Sections 227, and 29, Makara District; and part of 65, Hutt District; and 16, Ohiro District. |
£1000 Reward.
AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.
Superintendent's Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1864.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Provincial Government of Wellington 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 Wellington 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 remunerative rate of wages.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1864, No 49
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Crown Grants for New Zealand Company Land Claimants
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey1 August 1864
Crown Grants, Land Claims, New Zealand Company, Wanganui, Wellington, Horokiwi, Kaiwarra, Upper Hutt
- Ewen Cameron Macdonald, Entitled to Crown Grants
- Edmund Storr Halswell, Entitled to Crown Grants
- Charles Howard, Entitled to Crown Grants
- John Edward Wainhouse, Entitled to Crown Grants
- David Lewis, Commissioner
🌾 Reward for Discovery of Available Gold Field
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources13 January 1864
Gold Field, Reward, Wellington Province
- I. E. Featherston, Superintendent