✨ Land Settlement Proclamation
THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF WESTLAND).
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAS. A. BONAR, Superintendent.
VOL. I.] HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1874. [No. 23.
WHEREAS by “The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,” provision is made for the formation of special settlements within the County of Westland, in the unoccupied parts thereof, for colonisation, in order to advance the development and prosperity of the said County: And whereas by the seventy-eighth section of the said Act, it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, upon a resolution passed by an absolute majority of the County Council, from time to time to declare, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, that certain blocks of land within the said County, south of the Mikonui River, as prescribed in such Proclamation, are set apart and reserved to establish settlements for colonisation upon terms in the said section specified: And whereas a resolution of the County Council was passed by an absolute majority of such Council on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to the effect that the block of land, as recommended by the Report of the Committee on Southern Settlements, be set apart and reserved for the purpose of establishing a special settlement under Part II. of “The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870”: And whereas another resolution of the said Council was passed by an absolute majority of such Council on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to the effect “That in the opinion of this Council it is desirable that Blocks Nos. 2 and 3, south of the Mikonui, be set apart under section seventy-eight of the ‘Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,’ as special
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 23
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🗺️ Declaration of Special Settlements in Westland
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyWestland Waste Lands Act, Special Settlements, County of Westland, Colonisation, Proclamation
- JAS. A. BONAR, Superintendent