Westland Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 11

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✨ Proclamations and Appointments



THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1870.

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 twentieth day of January, 1870, I intend to demise to the person 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 Lessee. Situation. Area. Term of Lease.
Ward and party Hunt's Okarito Beach, 5 acres Fifteen years

County Chairman's Office,
Hokitika, 11th March, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified that he has appointed

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Esq.,
to be Acting Inspector of Schools for the County of Westland, to be Acting Inspector from the 15th February.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

County Chairman's Office,
Hokitika, 11th March, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified that he has appointed

WILLIAM HENRY JAMES, Esq.,
Sub-Inspector of Police for the County of Westland, to be Acting Inspector of Police during the absence of the Inspector on leave.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

Erratum.—In the County of Westland Gazette, No. 10, of the 7th March, 1870, in the contract of Capt. Bascand for the Southern Steam Service, the word "bi-weekly" in the...



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🗺️ Proclamation regarding Gold Fields Act and lease of auriferous Crown Lands

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
11 March 1870
Gold Fields Act, auriferous Crown Lands, lease, quartz lodes, Westland
  • Conrad Hoos (Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland), Issued proclamation and notice of lease
  • Ward, Lessee of auriferous Crown Lands

  • Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland

🎓 Appointment of Acting Inspector of Schools

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
11 March 1870
Acting Inspector of Schools, Westland
  • William Henry Harrison (Esquire), Appointed Acting Inspector of Schools

  • A. E. Tennant, Chief Clerk

⚖️ Appointment of Acting Inspector of Police

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
11 March 1870
Acting Inspector of Police, Westland
  • William Henry James (Esquire), Appointed Acting Inspector of Police

  • A. E. Tennant, Chief Clerk

📰 Erratum in previous Gazette issue

📰 NZ Gazette
Correction, Southern Steam Service, County of Westland Gazette
  • Bascand (Captain), Mentioned in erratum regarding contract