✨ Proclamation of Roads
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.
J. A. BONAR, Superintendent.
VOL. I.] HOKITIKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1874. [No. 7.]
[Extracts from the “New Zealand Gazette,” No. 13, February 26, 1874].
Defining Roads from Marsden to Maori Creek Township, and Buecleugh Street, Greymouth, to the South side of the South Town Belt of Greymouth, connecting Paroa and Marsden Roads, in the Province of Westland.
JAMES FERGUSSON, GOVERNOR.
(L.S.) A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, may, as to parts within the North Island of New Zealand, define the roads and the boundaries thereof, and the bridges and ferries which shall be and be deemed to be roads, bridges, or ferries, as the case may be, under the provisions of the said Act, and any such Proclamation may include existing roads, but no such roads or parts of roads shall be included if they are, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, roads which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province wherein such roads are situated;
And whereas by “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872,” it is, among other things, enacted that after the provisions contained in Part I. and Part VI. of “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” shall be applicable to the County of Westland and the Nelson South-West Gold Fields, and may be adapted and used with reference to those portions of the Colony, as if such portions had formed part of the North Island: And whereas by “The Province of Westland Act, 1873,” it is, among other things, enacted that after the first election of a Superintendent of the Province of Westland, whenever in any Act for the time being in force mention or reference is made to the County of Westland, such Act shall be construed and read as if in such Act the Province of Westland was mentioned or referred to, instead of the County of Westland: And whereas “The Province of Westland Act, 1873,” came into operation on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three;
Now, therefore, I, the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, by this Proclamation made and published in the manner aforesaid, define the roads and parts of roads in the Province of Westland as follows...
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 7
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🏗️ Proclamation defining roads in Westland Province
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public WorksRoads, Proclamation, Westland Province, Marsden, Maori Creek, Greymouth
- JAMES FERGUSSON, GOVERNOR