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Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert,
Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby, in pursuance of the regulations in this behalf, proclaim and notify that the several allotments of land situated in the Pahaua Block, in the East Coast district, in the Province of Wellington, and specified in the Schedule hereto, except such as may be reserved under the provision hereafter mentioned, will be put up for sale by public auction at the Crown Lands Office, in the City of Wellington, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, at twelve o’clock noon.

If at any time during the sale it shall 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 Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this 11th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

EAST COAST DISTRICT.
PAHAUA BLOCK.

Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert,
Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by Clause 12 of the Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, shortly intituled “The Highways Act, 1871, Amendment Act, 1873,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to proclaim the following clause to be in force in any Highway District, on receiving an application from the Board of Wardens of a Highway District:—

“Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of any Highway Board that the weight carried on vehicles having the breadth of their wheels of less than five inches, requires to be restricted, the Board may by notice posted in the district, or by advertisement inserted at least twice in some newspaper circulating in the district, give notice that all such vehicles will be subject to a penalty of not less than one shilling per hundred weight so carried above the weight of one ton five hundred weight on two wheels, or two tons ten hundred weight on four wheels, and that such penalty shall be recoverable at the suit of the collector or other agent appointed for that purpose by the Board: Provided for the carrying into operation of this clause the Board shall be empowered to take such steps as to them shall appear necessary for ascertaining the weight of any load, and no liability or damage shall accrue for any necessary delay in ascertaining the said weight.”

And whereas it has been notified to me, under the hand of the Clerk to the Board of Wardens for the Wellington Highway District, that the said Board did, on the third day of September, 1873, pass the following resolution, viz.: “That the Superintendent be requested to bring into operation the 12th clause of ‘The Highways Act, 1871, Amendment Act, 1873,’ in the Wellington Highway District.”

Now, therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent, do hereby proclaim and appoint that Clause 12 of “The Highways Act, 1871, Amendment Act, 1873,” above recited, shall be, and be deemed to be in force within the boundaries of the said Wellington Highway District on and after Monday, the thirteenth day of October, 1873.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Sheep Inspector’s Notice.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th Sept., 1873.

NOTICE has been received at this Office from the Inspector of Sheep for the Rangitikei District, that he has examined a separate flock of Sheep, numbering 200, belonging to Mrs. Gower, Turakina, and finds they are clean and free from scab.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Appointment.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th August, 1873.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint William Thomas Locke Travers, Esq., Justice of the Peace, to be Inspector of Lunatic Asylums for the Province of Wellington.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by Thomas M’Kenzie, Printer for the time being to such Government.