Westland Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 2

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✨ Gold Fields Proclamations



THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 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 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 Lessee. Situation. Area. Term of Lease.
Malcolm Robertson Redman’s Creek 278 x 139 yards Fifteen years

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the twelfth Section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon application being made, to grant special claims of greater area than may be determined by the Regulations to be made under the eleventh Section of the said Act, for the purpose of carrying on mining operations under circumstances of extraordinary difficulty, or involving the expenditure of considerable sums of money, or for the encouragement of enterprise in prospecting new ground, or as a reward for the discovery of new gold workings, and also to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such special claim may be held, occupied, worked, and forfeited;

And whereas, by the one hundred and ninth 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 think fit all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit;

And whereas, by an instrument in writing, dated the third day of February, 1869, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of February, 1869, His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, delegate unto me, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, all the powers aforesaid.



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🗺️ Demise of Auriferous Crown Lands

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
12 January 1870
Gold Fields Act, Crown Lands, Mining, Quartz Lodes
  • Malcolm Robertson, Lessee of auriferous Crown Lands

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

🏛️ Delegation of Powers under Gold Fields Act

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
12 January 1870
Gold Fields Act, Delegation of Powers, Mining, Special Claims
  • Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland