Governor of New Zealand, did, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate to the Honourable James Alexander Bonar, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” aforesaid, except the powers conferred by the sections hereinbefore particularly mentioned or enumerated, to hold and exercise the same within the County of Westland: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the power delegated to the Honourable James Alexander Bonar as aforesaid, to grant mining leases under the section numbered twenty-nine of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” but no further or otherwise to revoke the delegation aforesaid; and it is expedient to delegate to Conrad Hoos, Esquire, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, the power to grant mining leases under section twenty-nine of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” aforesaid, in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him as aforesaid, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, revoke the power heretofore delegated to the Honourable James Alexander Bonar, of the Governor in Council, to grant leases for mining purposes under section twenty-nine of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” aforesaid, and doth hereby, with such advice and consent as aforesaid, delegate to

Conrad Hoos, Esq.,
Chairman of the County Council of Westland, the power by the twenty-ninth section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” vested in the Governor in Council 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 four hundred yards by two hundred yards on a quartz reef; and to grant sites for machinery and any necessary easements for the purposes thereof, subject nevertheless to the conditions or provisions in the said section numbered twenty-nine of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” contained.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Approved in Council.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 5,
February 8, 1869.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” 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 the Superintendent of any Province, or such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the Act aforesaid, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers: And whereas, by an Order in Council bearing date the sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did delegate to the Honourable James Alexander Bonar all the powers in him vested under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” except the powers conferred by the sections of the said Act hereinbefore enumerated:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me as aforesaid, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, do hereby revoke the powers delegated to the Honourable James Alexander Bonar in and by the said Order in Council of the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and with the like advice and consent, do hereby delegate to

Conrad Hoos, Esq.,
the Chairman of the County Council for the County of Westland, all the powers vested in me under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,”