PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

shall be changed, and the same shall be and become a reserve for the purposes of a racecourse; and the lands in the Province of Westland, the boundaries whereof are described in the said Schedule hereunto annexed, are hereby reserved accordingly for a racecourse.

SCHEDULE.

Six acres three roods and eight perches, more or less, situate near the south bank of the River Grey, and being a portion of certain land reserved for railway purposes, as proclaimed in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 44, of the 20th of July, 1868, and numbered 4 (in red), commencing at a line drawn through said Reserve No. 4 (in red) from the southernmost corner of Section 7420, to the northernmost corner of Section 1419, and thence extending south-westerly through Reserve No. 34 (in red) a distance of 34 chains with a width of two chains to Omotomotu Creek.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 55, October 22, 1874.]

Regulations under The Miners Rights Extension Act, 1872.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested in me by The Miners Rights Extension Act, 1872, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the following Regulations for the purposes in the said Act mentioned, that is to say,—

1. The Governor may from time to time appoint in the Provinces of Nelson and Westland, such and so many person or persons as he shall think necessary for the purpose of registering miners’ rights issued in the Provinces of Nelson or of Westland, the holders whereof are desirous of having such rights registered under the said Act.

2. Such persons shall be called “Registering Officers,” and by that name are herein-after referred to, and they shall have the powers and perform the duties hereinafter mentioned.

3. Every holder of a miner’s right who may be desirous of registering his miner’s right under the said Act, and who may lawfully be entitled to do so, shall make application to a Registering Officer in the Province in which he desires that his miner’s right shall be registered (the same not being the Province in which such right was issued). Such application shall be in the following form or to the effect thereof:—

To the Registering Officer at

I, A.B. [Name in full] of [Residence and occupation], the lawful holder of the miner’s right now produced by me and marked (A), which right was issued to me in the Province of ____, on the day of ____, 18_, hereby make application to have the said right registered in the Province of ___, in which Province I intend to reside.

Dated at ____, this day of ____, 18___.

(Signature.)

Witness to signature—
C.D., Registering Officer, or
A Justice of the Peace.

4. Every such application shall be signed by the applicant, and shall be attested by the Registering Officer, or before a Justice of the Peace, and such Registering Officer or Justice shall mark the miner’s right produced by the applicant with some distinguishing letter or mark, and shall add thereafter the initials of his own name, and the date in figures.

5. The applicant shall also verify the said application by making and subscribing a statutory declaration, to be written or printed at the foot of such application, in the form or to the effect following, that is to say—

New Zealand.

To wit.

Province of ____

I, the above-named A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am the person named in the above-mentioned miner’s right; that the said right is still in force, and that the particulars set forth in the above-written application are true. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866.”

(Signature.)

Taken and declared before me at ____, this day of ____, 18___.

C.D., a Justice of the Peace.