PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

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[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette
No 8, February 11th, 1875.]

Land reserved in Province of Westland for Immigration purposes.

(L.S.)

NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixty-first section of "The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is enacted that in any province in which there are not at any time, in the opinion of the Governor, waste lands of the Crown set apart or taken under the provisions of the said "Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," or any other Act, for the purpose of furnishing means for defraying the costs of railways or other like purposes connected with railways, sufficient in quantity and suitable in quality and situation for settling immigrants, the Governor, on the recommendation of the Minister, may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, reserve and set apart any waste lands of the Crown within such province for the purposes of immigration, and to be dealt with under the said Act:

And whereas there are not now, in the opinion of me, the Most Honorable the Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, waste lands of the Crown in the Province of Westland set apart or taken under the provisions of the said Act, or any other Act, for the purpose of furnishing means for defraying the costs of railways, or other like purposes connected with railways, sufficient in quantity and suitable in quality and situation for settling immigrants:

Now therefore, I, the Most Honorable the Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said section of the said Act, and all other powers enabling me in this behalf, and on the recommendation of the Minister for immigration do, by this Proclamation, reserve and set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto, being waste lands within the Province of Westland, for the purposes of immigration, and to be dealt with under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Westland comprising sixty thousand (60,000) acres, more or less, and extending from the south side of Haast River to a point two miles south of the Arawata River; bounded on the West by the sea coast; on the East by a line four miles distant from and generally parallel with the coast; on the North by the Haast River; and on the South by the Smoothwater River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette
No. 14, March 4, 1875.]

Westland District, assigned to Mr. Justice Johnston.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of March, 1875.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-in-Council.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council, from time to time, to divide the colony into judicial districts for the purposes of the said Act, and