✨ Land Reservation and Penal Servitude
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1873.
In pursuance of the provisions of sections
eighty and eighty-one of "The West-
land Waste Lands Act, 1870," the Waste
Lands Board have reserved from public sale
the land described in the schedule hereunto
annexed, to be granted in payment for public
works.
G. G. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board.
SCHEDULE.
Block V. (Rural.)
ARAHURA DISTRICT.
One hundred and twenty-one acres, more or
less, situate on the south side of the Hokitika
and Christchurch road, commencing at a point
south of and opposite to the south-west corner
of section 1059, extending easterly along said
road, and running back southerly an average
distance of forty chains; subject to reserves
and gold-workings.
[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
22, of the 10th April, 1873.]
G. F. ARNEY,
Administrator of the
Government.
WHEREAS by the ninth section of
"The Secondary Punishments Act,
1854," it is enacted that every person, except
as hereinafter mentioned, who shall be kept
in penal servitude, shall, during the time of
his servitude be employed on the roads or
public works, or otherwise be kept to hard
labour, in such part of the Colony of New
Zealand as the Governor shall in that behalf
direct, and either in irons or under such other
restraint, and subject to such other correction,
as may be necessary for his safe custody and
strict discipline; and for the purpose of being
so employed as aforesaid, every such convict
may be removed from place to place, either
by sea or land, and may be confined in such
public gaol, at such penal station, or in such
place of confinement, or may otherwise be
kept in custody as the Governor shall from
time to time direct:
And whereas by the seventeenth section of
the said Act, it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by instructions under
his hand, to delegate to the Superintendent of
any Province on such terms and conditions,
and subject to such limitations and restrictions
as may be prescribed in that behalf, all or any
of the powers thereinbefore reserved to the
Governor by the ninth clause of the said
Act:
And whereas by the seventh section of
"The County of Westland Act, 1868," it is
enacted that in any Act of the General
Assembly, except such as relate to the
election of Superintendents and Provincial
Councils, and to legislation by such Councils,
and to appointments of Deputy Superintendents,
and to audit of Provincial Accounts
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1873, No 12
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🗺️ Land Reserved for Public Works
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyLand reservation, Public works, Westland Waste Lands Act, Arahura District
- G. G. Fitzgerald, Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board
⚖️ Penal Servitude Employment
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementPenal servitude, Hard labour, Secondary Punishments Act, Governor's powers
- G. F. Arney, Administrator of the Government