Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 3

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✨ Sheep Inspector Report and Land Claims

SHEEP INSPECTOR’S REPORT—continued.

Name	District	Condition of Flock	Number of Sheep	Assessment
Newings, E.	No. 2 Line	Clean	100	£ s. d.
				0 4 2
Norewood, Wm.		""	300	0 12 6
Owen, H. A.	Upokongaro	""	710	1 9 7
Pearson, Win.	No. 1 Line	""	40	0 1 8
Plampin, T.	No. 2 Line	""	146	0 6 1
Patterson, Wm.		""	240	0 10 0
Pickup, Bros.		""	240	0 10 0
Reid, Wm.		""	680	1 8 4
Rice, S.		""	834	1 14 9
Stent & Gibson	Waitotara	""	450	0 18 9
Sergeant, J.	No. 2 Line	""	400	0 16 8
Shield, R. S.	No. 3 Line	""	680	1 8 4
Strachan, D.		""	500	1 0 10
Sherriff, A. A.	No. 2 Line	""	550	1 2 11
Sweeney, P.	No. 3 Line	""	92	0 3 10
Spray, T.		""	150	0 6 3
Symes, A. & O.	No. 2 Line	""	900	1 17 6
Sutherland, N.	Whangaehu	""	720	1 10 0
Somerville, J. R.	No. 2 Line	""	400	0 16 8
Towgood, S. H.	No. 1 Line	""	1000	2 1 8
Thurston, D.	Upokongaro	""	184	0 7 8
White, S.	No. 1 Line	""	340	0 14 2
Young, Wm.	No. 2 Line	""	800	1 13 4
			Total	100135 208 12 3½

Sir,—I have the honor to forward my Annual Report of the Sheep for the Wanganui District for the year ending January, 1874, and I am pleased to be able to report the District free from Scab this year.

By this return you will find an increase in the District of 19,843 over the last annual returns, and with the increase there must be in the Waitotara and Wairoa District, I expect a still further increase next year.

I have, &c.,
Joseph W. Jordan,
Inspector.

Henry Bunny, Esq.,
Provincial Secretary, Wellington.

Reports.

DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to 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 under-mentioned persons, having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed Schedule.

David Lewis,
Commissioner.

New Zealand Company’s Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1875.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report	No. of Claim	Name of Claimant	Commissioner’s Decision
1582	1734	Elizabeth Ann Clare and Mary Ann Moore, representatives of Joseph Stayner, deceased	Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Rural Section No. 4 in the Wainui-o-mata District, the Grant to be issued under the provisions of “The Crown Grants Act, 1866,” in the name of Joseph Stayner. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 25th January, 1844.
1583	1735	Mary Coverdale, Frederick John Coverdale, Henry Coverdale, Agnes Coverdale, W. E. Slaughter, and Teresa Slaughter, representatives of Joseph Coverdale deceased	Entitled to a Crown Grant of Section No. 277 on the plan of the City of Wellington, the Grant to be issued under the provisions of “The Crown Grants Act, 1866,” in the name of Joseph Coverdale. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 29th July, 1840.