Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1866 – No. 21

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✨ Land Sale and Lighthouse Appointments

NEW ZEALAND.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

WILLIAM HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XIII. SATURDAY, 21ST JULY, 1866. No. 21.

Sale of 5s. Land in the Waipoua Block.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand.

ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington do hereby in pursuance of the Regulations in this behalf proclaim and notify that the general allotments of land situate in the Waipoua Block in the Wairarapa District in the Province of Wellington and specified in the Schedule hereto except such as may be reserved under the provision hereinafter mentioned will be put up for sale by public auction at the Crown Lands Office in the town of Wellington on Friday the Twenty-fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six at one o'clock in the afternoon.

If at any time during the sale it may appear to the Commissioner of Crown Lands beneficial or expedient for the public service to reserve from sale either of the sections specified in the said Schedule or to vary the order in which they are to be put up he is hereby authorised to do so.

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the P.S. Province of Wellington at Wellington this Seventeenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
W. HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Section.	Contents.	Upset Price per Acre.
	A. R. P.	£ s. d.
1	207 0 0	0 5 0
2	244 0 0	0 5 0
3	255 0 0	0 5 0
4	264 0 0	0 5 0
5	285 0 0	0 5 0

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 1866.

His Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint

Mr. William Lyall,
to be Keeper of the Lighthouse on Soames' Island, and

Mr. Daniel Susar,
to be Assistant Keeper thereof. Both appointments to date from 1st January, 1866.

W. HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1866, No 21

The Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted) were shared with Parliament after 1865

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Sale of Land in Waipoua Block

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated17 July 1866
KeywordsLand sale, Auction, Waipoua Block, Wairarapa District, Wellington Province
👩‍💼 Officials

Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington
W. Hickson, Provincial Secretary

🚂 Appointment of Lighthouse Keepers

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated19 July 1866
KeywordsLighthouse, Soames' Island, Appointments, Keeper, Assistant Keeper
👱🏽 Names

William Lyall (Mr), Appointed Keeper of the Lighthouse
Daniel Susar (Mr), Appointed Assistant Keeper of the Lighthouse

👩‍💼 Officials

W. Hickson, Provincial Secretary

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