PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Viz: 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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this 22nd day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 56, October 29, 1874.]

Land withdrawn from Gold-fields, Province
of Westland.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the forty-eighth section of “The Gold Fields
Act, 1866,” that any district proclaimed or
to be proclaimed a gold-field shall not be
subject to any provisions of any Waste
Lands Act or of any other law for the time
being in force regulating the sale, disposal,
and occupation of Crown lands within the
Province in which such gold-field is situate,
except so far as such provisions may relate
to the granting of mineral leases, or to the
issue of leases or licenses for any of the
following purposes—Cutting and felling of
timber; raising of lignite and coal; removal
of clay for bricks and pottery; removal of
sand, gravel, and stone; working of quarries;
sites for saw-mills, flour-mills, tanneries,
fellmongers’ yards, slaughter yards, potteries,
and brick kilns; or to the occupation of
land under any depasturing lease or license
granted before the issue of the Proclamation
establishing such gold-field, or to land theretofore or which thereafter may be reserved
for any public use or purpose: or except so
far as such provisions may specifically authorise
the sale or leasing of land within a gold-field:
Provided that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, at any time subsequent to the
proclamation of a gold-field, to withdraw
by Proclamation therefrom any Crown
lands which he may deem it necessary to
withdraw; and such lands shall thenceforth
be dealt with, sold, occupied, and disposed
of under any law or laws for the time
being in force regulating the sale, occupation,
or disposal of, or in any way affecting or
relating to the management of or dealing
with, the Crown lands within the Province
in which such gold-field is situate, in like
manner in every respect as though such
lands had never been comprised in any proclaimed gold-field:
And whereas by Proclamations bearing date the twenty-second
day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and the thirtieth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, and the seventeenth day of
September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy, certain lands, including the lands
mentioned or described in the Schedule
hereto, were under and by virtue of the said
Act proclaimed and declared to be a gold
field: And whereas it is desirable and
expedient to withdraw from the said gold
field the lands mentioned or described in the
said Schedule: Now therefore, I, Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of every power and authority
enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands in the said
Schedule hereto mentioned are hereby withdrawn from the said gold field.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land contained
within the dotted red lines, being generally,
unless otherwise indicated on plan, not more
than five chains on either side of the line
tinted blue on the plan marked “C.W.
145a,” which plan is, for the purposes of this
Proclamation, identified by the signature of
the Honorable Edward Richardson, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Hokitika, in the Province of
Westland. The said line commencing about
1 chain, more or less, south-east of Barff’s
Gully Creek, in the Province of Westland,
at a peg driven into the ground and marked
939, the said peg being a peg of the Waimea
Water Race survey line; proceeding thence
in a generally north-westerly direction for a
distance of about 9 ½ chains, more or less,
crossing Barrister’s Gully Creek; thence in
a generally south-westerly direction for a
distance of about 25 chains, more or less;
thence in a generally south-south-westerly
direction for a distance of about 16 ½ chains,
more or less, crossing Liverpool Bill’s
Creek; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 7 chains,
more or less; thence in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance of about
2 ½ chains, more or less, to a peg driven into