THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1868.

Extracted from the “New Zealand Gazette,” of 20th June, 1868.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the third section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a gold field under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such gold field from time to time to alter as occasion may require. And whereas by the 109th section of the said Act it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to such person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections 22, 40, 48, 60, 96, and 107 thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit. And whereas by an instrument in writing, dated the twentieth day of January last, and published in the “New Zealand Gazette” on the same day His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, delegate to me, John Hall, one of Her Majesty’s Executive Council in New Zealand, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” except the powers conferred by sections 22, 40, 48, 60, 96, and 107, to have, hold, and exercise within the County of Westland, the said powers thereby given to me, the said John Hall, so long as I shall continue and remain a member of the said Executive Council. And whereas by a proclamation bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, I, the said John Hall, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in and delegated to me in that behalf, did proclaim, constitute, and appoint, all that portion of New Zealand contained within the County of Westland to be a gold field, under “The Gold Fields Act, 1866.” And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of the said gold field, I manner hereinafter appearing:

Now therefore, I, John Hall, one of Her Majesty’s Executive Council in New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of all powers and authorities vested in and delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby alter the limits of the said gold field, called “The Westland Gold Field,” proclaimed and constituted as aforesaid, by excepting thereout, and I do hereby accordingly except from and out of the said gold field, all those portions of the Colony included within the boundaries of the town of Hokitika, the town of Greymouth, and the town of Okarita East, the town of Okarita North, the town of Okarita South, as the same are respectively defined in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby proclaim, constitute, and appoint all that portion of the Colony which is contained within the said County of Westland, with the exceptions of those portions of the Colony included within the boundaries of the towns aforesaid, to be a gold field under “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” to be called and known as “The Westland Gold Field.”

SCHEDULE.

1. The town of Hokitika, comprising all that area, containing 640 acres, more or less, situate on the north side of the Hokitika River, commencing at a point on the high bank of the old bed of the aforesaid river, the said point being forty chains forty links west of Trigonometrical station 31; thence following a line bearing North 20 degrees 14 minutes East (magnetic) a distance of 62 chains 65 links; thence westerly, at a right angle, a distance of 85 chains 40 links to the