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THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1872.
County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, January 9, 1872.
THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified for general information that he has appointed
Sergeant WILLIAM BLANE,
to be Keeper of the powder magazine situated at Cemetery Hill.
A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.
Hokitika, January 8, 1872.
PURSUANT to section 13 of “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” and under the powers delegated to me by his Excellency the Governor, I hereby publish for general information Bye Law No. 25 of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board.
H. H. LAHMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.
BYE LAW NO. 25.
At a meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at Ross, in the said District on the second day of January, A.D. 1872, it is ordained by the said Board as follows, that is to say—
Whereas by “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” it is enacted that every Mining Drainage Board constituted thereunder should have the power from time to time (but subject to the provisions of the said Act) to make bye laws for the district for which it shall have been appointed and to revoke, alter, and amend the same—such bye laws not to affect any right, interest, liability or obligation existing at the time of the making thereof, and that such bye laws may be for the following purposes (amongst others), that is to say, for determining whether and under what circumstances and upon what conditions in cases where any water shall by means of any appliances for raising or lifting or otherwise removing water, be drawn from any land held or occupied under the provisions of any such Act as last aforesaid, or regulations made thereunder, for the purpose of mining for gold, the owner for the time being of such land (including in that term a mortgagee in possession thereof), shall pay any sum by way of contribution, whether annual or otherwise towards the expense of such appliances and of the workings thereof by means of which such water shall have been so drawn and for determining the principle upon which the amount of such contribution is to be ascertained, and generally for carrying out the powers by this section conferred :
For imposing on all such land such reasonable rates periodical or otherwise as shall be necessary for the remuneration of the officers which each such Board is empowered to appoint for regulating the manner of
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1872, No 2
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🏘️ Appointment of Powder Magazine Keeper
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government9 January 1872
Appointment, Powder Magazine, Westland County, Hokitika
- William Blane (Sergeant), Appointed Keeper of powder magazine
- A. E. Tennant, County Secretary
🗺️ Publication of Mining Drainage Bye Law
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey8 January 1872
Mining, Drainage, Bye Laws, Jones's Flat, Gold Mining
- H. H. Lahman, Governor's Delegate