Westland Provincial Gazette – 1873 – No. 1

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✨ Land Proclamation



Extract from the New Zealand Gazette No. 65, of the 12th December, 1872.

Withdrawing Township Reserves, and reducing others in Area.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

(L.S.)

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “the Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,” it is provided that the Governor may upon the recommendation of the County Council, approved by the Waste Lands Board, withdraw any lands as sites for towns, or make such alterations in their boundaries as may be recommended as aforesaid:

And whereas a Select Committee of the County Council having been appointed to consider and report upon the advisability of lifting certain reserves for townships throughout the County of Westland, reported that they considered it advisable to make certain alterations in the Township Reserves, as mentioned in the Schedule attached to such Report:

And whereas, on or about the twenty-third day of February, 1871, the County Council of the County of Westland adopted the said Report and the recommendations therein contained, and the same were also, on the eighteenth day of June, 1872, approved by the Waste Lands Board of the said County:

And whereas, in order to give effect to such recommendations and approval, it is expedient that the lands mentioned in the respective Schedules hereto should be dealt with as hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and of all powers enabling me in this behalf, and in accordance with such recommendations as aforesaid, approved as aforesaid, do hereby withdraw the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto from being sites for towns; and in further pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, I do hereby make the alterations in the boundaries of the several townships mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, so that the area of such townships shall henceforth only be that set forth in the column of the said Schedule against the name of each township.

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, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

No. Name of Township Reserve. Locality. Acreage.
278 ... Jackson’s Bay ...
281 Wataroa South North bank, River Teremakau 640
651 Okarito North Wataroa River 640
653 Weheka Okarito 320
656 Weheka Weheka River 320
658 Raleigh South Karangarua River 320
659 Harper Paringa River 320
660 Awarua Haast River 640
661 Waiatoto East Waiatoto River 320
662 Waiatoto West Waiatoto River 320
664 Arawata West Arawata River 320
666 Kawhaka Kawhaka River 320
667 Clifton South Wanganui River 320


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🗺️ Withdrawing Township Reserves and Reducing Others in Area

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
7 December 1872
Proclamation, Township Reserves, Westland, Land Withdrawal, Land Alterations
  • Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
  • G. M. Waterhouse