✨ Proclamation and Special Claim Grant
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1873.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by the twelfth Section of
"The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon application being made, to grant special claims of greater area than may be determined by the Regulations to be made under the eleventh Section of the said Act, for the purpose of carrying on mining operations under circumstances of extraordinary difficulty, or involving the expenditure of considerable sums of money, or for the encouragement of enterprise in prospecting new ground, or as a reward for the discovery of new gold workings, and also to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such special claim may be held, occupied, worked, and forfeited:
And whereas, by the one hundred and ninth Section of the said Act, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to such person as the Governor may think fit all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit:
And whereas, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did on the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers vested in him by the twenty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866:"
Now therefore, I, Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of all the powers vested in and delegated to me in this behalf do hereby grant unto Oliver and party, a Special Claim of five acres, situated at the Three-mile Creek, on the Sea Beach, subject to the undermentioned conditions.
Given under my hand, at Hokitika,
this 22nd day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
H. L. ROBINSON.
Conditions recommended for Oliver and party, for special claim, Three-mile Creek:
1st. The claim to be surveyed at the expense of Oliver and party.
2nd. Four men per acre to be constantly employed on the claim.—(This condition may be temporarily relaxed at the discretion of the Warden of the District, provided that at no time shall a smaller number of men than eleven be kept working in the claim.)
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1873, No 24
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🗺️ Proclamation of Special Claim Grant
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey22 November 1873
Gold Fields Act, Special Claim, Three-mile Creek, Hokitika
- Oliver, Granted Special Claim
- Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland