PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
in accordance with the terms of a Proclamation made in pursuance thereof, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the
sixth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three, and a Superintendent of the said Province has been elected
as Superintendent thereof: And whereas it
is expedient that the roads mentioned and
defined in the Schedules hereto should be
constructed under the firstly in part recited
Act: And whereas, in the opinion of the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
and the Executive Council of New Zealand,
the said roads are not roads which should
be constructed by the Superintendent and
the Provincial Council of the Province of
Westland:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority in me vested by the
said Acts, and of every other power and
authority enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the roads
within the County of Westland described,
and the boundaries whereof are set forth in
the several Schedules hereto, shall respectively be and be deemed to be roads under
the provisions of the said firstly in part
recited Act; and in further pursuance of
"The Immigration and Public Works Act,
1870," I do hereby proclaim and declare
that I have caused a map and survey plan
of the road defined in the First Schedule
hereto, describing the course and bearings
and the admeasurements required for the
same, and through what lands the same is
proposed to pass, and the names of the
owners or occupiers thereof, so far as
known, to be deposited in the office of the
Public Works Department at Greymouth,
in the Province of Westland; and I have
also caused a like map and survey plan of
the road defined in the Second Schedule,
and containing like particulars, to be deposited in the office of the said Department
at Greymouth aforesaid; which said maps and
survey plans are authenticated, for the purposes of this Proclamation, by the signature
of the Honorable Edward Richardson,
Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE No. 1.

From Marsden to Maori Creek Township.

Commencing at Marsden, and proceeding
thence generally in a north-easterly direction for a distance of about five miles
fifty-one chains, more or less, crossing New
River and Eight-Mile Creek, to Maori Creek
Township. The above described road not
to be less than one chain wide.

SCHEDULE No. 2.

From Buccleugh Street, Greymouth, to the south side of the South Town Belt of Greymouth.

Commencing at Buccleugh Street, Greymouth, and proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction through High Street,
Railway and Road Reserve, for a distance
of about seventy-six chains sixty-one links,
more or less, to the south side of the South
Town Belt of Greymouth.

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 nineteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands withdrawn from Gold Field,

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 sawmills, 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 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