Road Proclamations and Notices




PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

From Okarito to Lake Mapourika.

Commencing at a point near the Okarito River, about 50 links, more or less, north of Wharf-street, in the Town of Okarito, and defined by a peg driven in the ground and marked O; extending thence in a generally south-south-easterly direction to a peg marked 240, situated on the northern bank of Ravine Creek, and about 27 chains above the junction of the said creek, with its southern branch; thence in a generally east-north-easterly direction to a peg marked 48 of the old traverse of the Okarito River, and situated near the east bank of the said river; thence following the north bank of the said Okarito River in a generally south-easterly direction to a peg marked 204, and thence in a generally south-south-westerly direction to a peg marked 315, situated on the eastern bank of the Okarito River, near the junction of the said river with Lake Mapourika.

The above-described road having a total length of about 713 chains 67 links, more or less, and not to be less than one chain wide.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

From Forks of Kanieri River to Kanieri Lake.

Commencing at a point situated near the junction of the left hand branch of the Kanieri River about 1 chain north of Kennedy’s Store, and defined by a peg driven in the ground and marked O; proceeding thence in a generally east-south-easterly direction for a distance of about 375 chains 87 links, more or less, to a point situated on the shore of Kanieri Lake near the junction of the Kanieri River with the Kanieri Lake, and defined by a peg driven in the ground and marked 175.

The above-described road not to be less than one chain wide.

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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 35, July 2, 1874.]

Notice of the intention of the Governor to make a Road from Pounamu to Lake Brunner.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Governor of New Zealand having, under the powers in him vested by “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” and the Acts amending the same, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, deemed it expedient to open and make a line of road from Pounamu to Lake Brunner, in the Province of Westland, which road is, in the opinion of the Governor and the Executive Council of the Colony, not a road to be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the said Province, and the course and bearings of which said road, the admeasurements required for the same and the lands through which the same passes, together with the names of the owners and occupiers thereof, so far as known, are respectively shown and delineated on a certain plan marked W.D. 127, and which said road is also described in a certain Proclamation made under the said Act, and published in the same Gazette as that in which this notice appears:

A copy of the said plan, marked W.D. 127, is deposited and may be seen and inspected at the office of the Public Works Department at Hokitika, in the Province of Westland aforesaid.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or any person or persons affected by the making of the said line of road from Pounamu to Lake Brunner, are required to set forth in writing, addressed to the Governor, and left at the office of the said Public Works Department at Hokitika, within forty days from the first publication hereof.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 24





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🏗️ Definition of Roads in the Province of Westland (continued from previous page)

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
1 July 1874
Roads, Okarito, Lake Mapourika, Kanieri River, Kanieri Lake, Proclamation, Westland
  • Sir James Fergusson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works

🏗️ Notice of intention to make a Road from Pounamu to Lake Brunner

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Road, Pounamu, Lake Brunner, Proclamation, Westland
  • James Fergusson, Governor