Westland Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 30

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✨ Mining Lease Proclamations

THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1869.

Hokitika, 20th December, 1869.

I is hereby notified, for general information, that the Proclamation contained in the County of Westland Gazette, No. 29, of the 17th instant, granting certain Mining Leases, is cancelled, and that the following Proclamation will be read in lieu thereof.

C. Hoos,
Governor’s Delegate.

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the 29th Section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to demise for mining purposes, to any person, for any term not exceeding fifteen years from the making of the lease, any auriferous Crown Lands, not exceeding ten acres in the whole of alluvial ground, or an area of 400 yards by 200 yards on a quartz reef, and to grant sites for machinery and any necessary easements for the purposes aforesaid, subject, nevertheless, to the conditions or provisions in the said section contained:

And whereas His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did, on the third day of February, 1869, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, the power vested in him by the twenty-ninth section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866;”

Now, therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby give notice that on the fourth day of January, 1870, I intend to demise to the persons named in the Schedule hereto annexed, certain auriferous Crown Lands, containing quartz lodes or veins, for the term specified in the said Schedule.

C. Hoos.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Lessees.	Situation.	Area.	Term of Lease.
Nicholas Walsh & Co.	Taipo.	311 x 186	15 years.
William Jenkin	Taipo.	311 x 186	15 years.
John Cunningham	Taipo.	311 x 186	15 years.
Edwin Blake	Taipo.	311 x 186	15 years.
Weymouth Roberts	Taipo.	400 x 200	15 years.
John Owen & Co.	Redman’s Creek.	340 x 170	15 years.
George Preshaw & Co.	Redman’s Creek.	278 x 139	15 years.
M’Farlane and Co.	Redman’s Creek.	278 x 139	15 years.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the seventeenth section of “The County of Westland Act, 1867,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to make Regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, occupation, and management of any Waste Lands of the Crown, and to alter the laws in force within the said County of Westland at the time of coming into operation of the said Act regulating the sale, letting, disposal, occupation, and management of such lands within the said County of Westland, and to sell, let, and dispose thereof at such prices, and in such

VUW Te Waharoa — Westland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 30

The Westland Provincial Council was based at Hokitika and met at the Supreme Court House (depicted) from 1868-1875.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Cancellation of Previous Mining Lease Proclamation

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated20 December 1869
KeywordsMining Leases, Cancellation, Proclamation, Westland
👩‍💼 Officials

C. Hoos, Governor’s Delegate

🗺️ Proclamation of New Mining Leases

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated20 December 1869
KeywordsMining Leases, Quartz Lodes, Taipo, Redman’s Creek, Westland
👱🏽 Names

8 names identified

Nicholas Walsh, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
William Jenkin, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
John Cunningham, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
Edwin Blake, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
Weymouth Roberts, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
John Owen, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
George Preshaw, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands
M’Farlane, Lessees of auriferous Crown Lands

👩‍💼 Officials

Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland
G. F. Bowen, Governor

🗺️ Proclamation Regarding Waste Lands Regulations

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsWaste Lands, Regulations, Proclamation, Westland

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