Westland Provincial Gazette – 1873 – No. 16

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✨ Land Reserves and Vesting Orders

and in cases where the purpose for which such reserve was made shall be specified, the Corporation shall have no power to alter the same, but such reserve shall be held in trust for the particular purpose specified.

As to the reserves mentioned in the said Schedule, the Corporation shall have power to lease the same, or any of them, to any person or persons, or to any body corporate, for any term not exceeding twenty-one years from the date of such lease, reserving such rent or rents as the Corporation may think fit; and every such lease shall contain all usual and proper covenants on the part of the lessee or lessees, and shall contain a condition or right of re-entry for breach of any of the provisions of such lease; but before any lease or disposition thereof shall be made to any person or body corporate, the consent of the Governor shall be obtained prior to the execution of the lease, and such consent, if given, shall be indorsed on the intended lease, and the Governor may, if he think fit, refuse to assent to any such lease.
It shall be lawful for the Governor to require that any such lease shall contain such additional covenants or conditions on the lessee’s part as he may think fit and adapted to secure the effectual management of any such reserves.
The rents, issues, and profits to be received or derived from the leasing of any of the reserves mentioned in the said Schedule shall be vested in the Corporation, and by them received and appropriated to the Borough Fund, and may be applied thereout in such manner as the ordinary revenue of the Corporation may be applied.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Reserve	Area, more or less.	Date of Reservation.	Gazetted.	Description.	Purpose.
707	A. R. P. 0 0 3	January 5, 1867.	Canterbury Gazette, No. 1, 1867.	Situate in the Town of Hokitika. Having thirty links frontage on Revell Street, and extending back parallel to Camp Street a distance of sixty links, in a rectangular block, the south-western corner being one hundred and fourteen links from Camp Street.	For the uses of a fire brigade.
801	1 0 0	Ditto ...	Ditto ...	Situate in the Town of Hokitika. Having frontage to the western side of Sale Street and the northern side of Stafford Street, and being Sections, Nos. 845, 846, 847, 848, and 849 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the County of Westland setting out and describing the Town of Hokitika.	For the purposes of a gravel pit.

FOSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from The New Zealand Gazette, No. 41, of the 26th of June, 1873.]

Vesting Management of Recreation Ground Reserves in the Corporation of Hokitika.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of June, 1873.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870, it is among other things provided that the management of reserves for public gardens or recreation grounds may be vested by Order in Council in any Corporation, Commissioner, or other person or persons having corporate succession, under such restrictions and limitations as the Governor in Council shall think sufficient to secure the full maintenance of the purposes for which such reserve may have been made: And whereas the several parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto have been reserved and set apart for the purposes therein mentioned, and such reserves are now subject to the provisions of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the management of the said reserves should be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hokitika (hereinafter called the "Corporation"), in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of all power and authority in this behalf in him vested, doth hereby order and direct that the management of the several reserves mentioned in the said Schedule shall, from and after the date hereof, be vested in the Corporation, under and subject to the conditions and restrictions hereinafter set forth, that is to say:--

VUW Te Waharoa — Westland Provincial Gazette 1873, No 16

The Westland Provincial Council was based at Hokitika and met at the Supreme Court House (depicted) from 1868-1875.

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🗺️ Reserves at Hokitika vested in Corporation for Public Purposes (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated14 May 1873
KeywordsReserves, Public purposes, Hokitika, Vesting, Corporation, Borough, Order in Council
👩‍💼 Officials

FOSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council

🗺️ Vesting Management of Recreation Ground Reserves in the Corporation of Hokitika

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 June 1873
KeywordsRecreation Ground Reserves, Vesting, Corporation, Hokitika, Order in Council
👩‍💼 Officials

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor

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