150 PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

the ground, and marked 1035, the said peg being a peg of the Waimea Water Race Survey, and situated about 2½ chains, more or less, south of Liverpool Bill’s Creek.

And again, commencing west of Barrister’s Gully Creek, in the Province of Westland, at or near a point situated about 9 chains, more or less, northwest of the aforementioned peg of the Waimea Water Race survey marked 939; proceeding thence in a generally north-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 9 chains, more or less; thence in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance of about 6 chains, more or less; thence in a generally north-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 14 chains, more or less, to a point distant about 50 links, more or less, from a peg driven into the ground, and marked 39, the said peg being a peg of the survey line of Branch B, Waimea Water Race.

The whole of the above described piece or parcel of land being situated between Ballarat Hill, Dam Town, and Goldsboro’, in the Province of Westland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 23rd day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 56, October 22, 1874.]

Land withdrawn from Gold Field, Province of Westland.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

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 specially authorize 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.