Westland Provincial Gazette – 1873 – No. 17

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✨ Land Sales and Advertisements

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Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; issued at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE.

ADVERTISEMENTS in The County of Westland Gazette will be charged for according to the following scale:

For every 72 words and under, 6s.

Tabular matter double the above rate.

In all cases where figures are required each figure counts as a word.

All advertisements must be sent to the County Chairman’s Office, and at the same time pre-payment (by money-order when necessary) according to the above rates must be made.

SALE OF RESERVES IN THE TOWN OF HOKITIKA.

WHEREAS, by a Proclamation issued by His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, dated the fourteenth day of May, 1873, and published in "The New Zealand Gazette," No. 31, dated the 22nd May, 1873; and also by a Proclamation issued by His Excellency the Governor, dated the twenty-fifth day of June, 1873, and published in "The New Zealand Gazette," No. 41, dated the 26th June, 1873, it was ordered that the parcels of land described in the Schedules hereto annexed should be sold, and that the time, place, and conditions of the said sale, should be fixed by the Waste Lands Board of the County of Westland, and should be published in The County of Westland Gazette, at least two calendar months before such sale should take place:

It is hereby notified that on Tuesday 28th October next, an Auction Sale will be held in the Land Office, Hokitika, of the unimproved reserves mentioned in Schedule No. 1.

The Sale will commence at Twelve noon. Every reserve will be put up separately at the upset price, and will be sold to the highest bidder. Ten per centum of the purchase money to be paid immediately on the fall of the hammer; the purchase to be completed, and the balance of purchase money paid at the next sitting of the Board, which will be held on Tuesday, 4th November, 1873.

At the end of the Auction Sale, the improved reserves mentioned in Schedule No. 2, will be offered to the occupiers at the price mentioned in said Schedule. The improved reserves must be purchased, and the purchase money paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue at any sitting of the Board, within three months from the date of being offered for sale.

G. G. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board.

SCHEDULE No. 1.—(UNIMPROVED RESERVES.)

NO. OF RESERVE.	AREA.	STREET.	UPSET PRICE.
	A. R. P.		£ s. d.
470	0 3 0	Park	36 0 0
472	0 3 0	Tudor	36 0 0
475	0 1 37	Haast	23 2 0
478	0 2 24	Spencer	31 4 0
479	0 0 32	Fitzherbert	9 12 0
481	0 0 32	Sewell	9 12 0
504	0 1 0	Brittan	12 0 0
506	0 0 20	Hall	6 0 0
508	0 0 36	Haast and Hall	10 16 0
510	0 2 9	Park and Haast	26 14 0
511	1 2 0	Park and Hall	72 0 0
523	0 0 9	Haast and Hampden	2 14 0
554	0 0 24	Haast	7 4 0
555	0 0 35	Haast and Davie	10 10 0

VUW Te Waharoa — Westland Provincial Gazette 1873, No 17

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

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Value of Improvements in Township of Stafford (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsImprovements valuation, Stafford Township, Westland Waste Lands Act
👩‍💼 Officials

G. Maurice O’Rorke

🏘️ Advertisement Rates in The County of Westland Gazette

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
KeywordsAdvertisement rates, Westland Gazette, County Chairman’s Office

🗺️ Sale of Reserves in the Town of Hokitika

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated24 July 1873
KeywordsLand sale, Auction, Hokitika, Waste Lands Board
👩‍💼 Officials

G. G. Fitzgerald, Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board

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