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[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 69, of the 29th of December, 1871.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the thirty-second section of "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," it is enacted that the sites of towns shall from time to time be determined by the Governor, upon the recommendation of the County Council, and shall be notified by Proclamation in The County of Westland Gazette; And whereas the said County Council has recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto should be a site for a town within the meaning of the said section of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby determine and fix the land described in the Schedule hereto to be a site for a town within the meaning of the thirty-second section of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
Kokotahi Township.

Situate on the Kokotahi Flats, and containing two hundred and fifty (250) acres, more or less. Bounded—on the Northward by Section No. 1,129 (rural) and by Duck Creek; on the Eastward by F.D. line; and on the Southward and Westward by lines respectively averaging distances of fifty (50) chains from the other defined boundaries.

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 Wellington this twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE,
County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, January 24, 1872.

In accordance with the request of the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, the undermentioned regulations, under which

Water Race Companies can obtain assistance, are hereby published for general information.

H. H. LAHMAN.

NOTICE.

REGULATIONS prescribing the mode of making applications for advances of money to aid in the construction of works for the supply of water upon Gold Fields:

1. Persons desirous of obtaining advances of money for the purposes specified shall make application in writing to the Warden of the District or the Agent duly appointed in that behalf for the Province or District in which the intended works are to be constructed, and such application shall state—

   (1.) The names and descriptions of the applicants, or if they be a Company registered under any Act of the General Assembly, then the registered particulars thereof.

   (2.) The names of the Engineer and Manager of the enterprise.

   (3.) The general description of the water race or races, dams, reservoirs, or other works proposed to be constructed, together with duly attested copies of the certificate or certificates of title to the water or ground; the quantity of water intended to be conveyed or stored; the length of the race or races; size of reservoirs or dams; the maximum rate proposed to be charged for the water; the nature and extent of the auriferous ground proposed to be supplied with water.

   (4.) The estimated cost of the enterprise.

   (5.) The proposed capital.

   (6.) The interests, if any, affected by the diversion or storage of the water to be dealt with.

   (7.) The amount of money proposed to be borrowed, which must not exceed one-third of the estimated cost of the construction of the works.

2. With the application the applicant shall forward to the Warden or Agent a receipt from the Receiver of Land Revenue of the District for the amount of 2½ per cent. upon the money proposed to be borrowed.

3. Immediately after any application shall have been finally decided upon, the deposit thereon will be repaid, except so much as may be retained under authority of the