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[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 60 of a certain other Bye Law of the said Board,
the 20th November, 1871.]
No. 23:
And whereas the said Mining Drainage Board have resolved that an equal rate of fifteenpence (15d.) shall be levied weekly upon all rateable areas within the aforesaid Drainage Area No. 1, in lieu of elevenpence, as imposed under and by virtue of the aforesaid Bye Law, No. 2;

Be it therefore ordered and enacted by the said Mining Drainage Board as follows, that is to say—

That an equal rate of fifteenpence (15d.) shall be levied weekly upon all alluvial gold mining claims within Drainage Area No. 1, of the said Drainage District, in lieu of the said equal weekly rate of elevenpence (11d.) imposed upon the said claims in the said area No. 1, under and by virtue of the aforesaid Bye Law, No. 23:

And that such weekly rate of fifteen pence (15d.) shall be paid to the Clerk of the said Board at his office in Bold street, Ross, on Friday, the 17th day of November, 1871, and such payments shall continue to be made each Friday, until otherwise ordered by the said Board, and shall in all other respects be subject to the provisions of the aforesaid Bye Law, No. 18, and that this Bye Law shall be deemed to be incorporated with and form part of the aforesaid Bye Laws, Nos. 18, 21, and 23, and shall together with them be construed as one Bye Law.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1871.

It is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause 133 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” the name of

JAMES BRITTON CLARKE, Esq.,
has been sent into this office by the Town Clerk as having being elected Mayor of the Borough of Hokitika.

W. GISBORNE.

Hokitika, 1st December, 1871.

PURSUANT to Section 13 of “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1863,” I hereby publish for general information under the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor, Bye Law, No. 24, of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board.

H. H. LAINGMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.

BYE LAW No. 24.

At a Meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, between and Holden at Ross, in the said district, on the 3rd day of November, 1871, it is enacted by the said Board as follows, that is to say—

Whereas by and under “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1863,” power is given to every Mining Drainage Board constituted thereunder to make Bye Laws for the district for which it shall have been appointed, and to revoke and alter the same:

And whereas, by and under a certain Bye Law of the said Mining Drainage Board, numbered 18, it is enacted “that an equal rate of eight pence (8d.) shall be levied weekly upon all rateable areas within Drainage Area No. 1, payment of such rate to be due and payable to the Clerk of the said Board, at his office, Aylmer-street, Ross, on Friday, the 23rd day of September, 1870, and that such payments shall continue to be made each Friday until otherwise ordered by the said Drainage Board:

And whereas by and under a certain Bye Law of the said Mining Drainage Board, numbered 21, the said weekly rate of eight pence (8d.) imposed under the said Bye Law, No. 18, was increased to ninepence (9d.):

And the said weekly rate of ninepence (9d.) so imposed by and under the said Bye Law, No. 21, was subsequently altered and increased to elevenpence (11¼d.) by and under...

BYE LAW No. 23.

The undersigned members of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board, have enacted in making the foregoing Bye Law, No. 24:

W. B. ARCHIBALD, Chairman.
C. HUNTER
W. DOUGLASS

It is hereby notified, in accordance with the provisions of section forty-three of The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870, that the land described in the schedule hereto annexed is open for sale.

By order of the Waste Lands Board,
G. C. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

BLOCK LXXI (RURAL).

Grey District.

Situate between the New River and the Teremakau, bounded on the northward and eastward by the New River, on the southward by a reserve for tailings along the foot of terrace, and on the westward by...