PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Passed by the Council, Borough of
Hokitika, this fifteenth day of
January, 1875.

FRANCIS C. TABART,
(L.s.)
Mayor.

W. D. BANKS,
Town Clerk.

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[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 1, January 7, 1875.]

Regulations as to Lease of Lands in Township of Ross.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
this fifth day of January, 1875.

Present:
His Excellency the Administrator of
the Government in Council.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act
Amendment Act, 1874," it is enacted
that notwithstanding anything contained in
"The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council under
regulations to be made in that behalf from
time to time, to grant to any occupant of
land under business license in the Township
of Ross, in the Province of Westland, who
has improved such land to the satisfaction
of the Warden of the district, a lease for any
term not exceeding twenty-one years of the
surface of such land at such rates of pay-
ment for rent, and under such restrictions
as to the use thereof, as he may think neces-
sary, and such lease shall entitle the holder
thereof to all the rights and privileges now
enjoyed by holders of business licenses;

And whereas it is expedient for the purposes
aforesaid that the Regulations set forth in
the Schedule hereto should be made:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Admin-
istrator of the Government of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, and in exercise and pursuance
of all the power and authority in that behalf
enabling him, doth hereby make the Regula-
tions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these Regula-
   tions, the following terms and expressions
   (if not inconsistent with the context or sub-
   ject matter) shall have the meanings hereby
   assigned to them, that is to say,—

"The Superintendent" shall mean the
Superintendent for the time being of
the Province of Westland.

"The Warden" shall mean a Warden
appointed under the law for the time
being in force for the regulation and
management of gold fields, exercising
jurisdiction in the Township of Ross.

"The said Act" shall mean "The
Gold Fields Act, 1866," and shall
include any amendments thereof.

2. The lands that may be leased under
   these Regulations shall be the town sections
   defined on the map of the Township of Ross
   in the Survey Office at Hokitika, in the
   Province of Westland.

3. Under these Regulations, the surface
   only of such lands shall be leased; and no
   lease shall entitle the lessee to mine for gold
   on the land leased, or to extract, dig, or
   search for any metals or minerals therein or
   thereon.

4. No lease shall be granted under these
   Regulations over any land in respect of
   which a mining lease under the said Act
   may have been already granted, unless in
   such mining lease all right to occupy the
   surface of the land shall have been specially
   excepted or reserved, or unless the lessee of
   such mining lease shall assent to the issue
   of such surface lease and shall join therein.

5. No lessee under these Regulations
   shall have any claim for compensation for
   any damage which may be caused or arise
   from mining operations carried on below the
   surface.

6. Any holder of an existing business
   license issued under the said Act who may
   be desirous of obtaining a lease under these
   Regulations shall make application in
   writing to the Warden specifying the num-
   ber of the section applied for, and upon
   the receipt of such application, the Warden
   shall appoint a day for considering the same.

7. The applicant shall cause one calendar
   month’s notice of his application, and of the
   day appointed for considering the same, to
   be inserted in the Government Gazette of
   the Province, and also in one newspaper
   circulating in the district; and the Warden
   shall transmit his report to the Superinten-
   dent, who shall forward the same to the