COLLIERY RESERVE AT WESTPORT NO LONGER CROWN LANDS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1037, 14 January 1873, Page 2

COLLIERY RESERVE AT WESTPORT NO LONGER CROWN LANDS.

From "General Government Gazette," January 2,1873. Whereas by "The Goldfielda Act, 1568," it is provided that all such Crown lands as have been declared Public Reserves, or set apart or applied for or to any public use or purpose, situate within the the Nelson South-west Goldfields, shall be deemed to have formed part of the Crown lauds within the said Goldfields from the first proclamation of Goldfields, known as tha Nelson South-west Goldfields, under "The Goldfields Act, 1862," and " The Goldfields Act, 1866," respectively, and to have been open for occupation for mining purposes, and for residence and business under miners' rights, mining leases, and business licenses, as the case may be, and to continue to form part of such Crown lands, and to be open for such occupation as aforesaid : Provided that the Governor may at any time, and from time to time, by Proclamation published in the ' New Zealand Gazette,' declare that the same or any part thereof shall cease to form part of such Crown lands, and thereupon such land or such part thereof shall cease to be deemed to be Crown lands open for such occupation as aforesaid : And whereaß the piece or parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto was, on or about the fifteenth day of June, 1863, declared to be a Public Eeserve for the purposes of a Public Quay and Colliery Depot: And whereas it is expedient that a Proclamation should be made in manner and for the purposes hereinafter bet forth .

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby declare that the said parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto shal), from and after tße thirteenth day of December instant, cease

to form part of such Crown lands as aforesaid. Givon under the hand of bis Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Cliief 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 Dunedin, this twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. j G. M. Wateiuiotjse, (for Secretary for Crown Lands.). Schedule. ... of Nelson.—Town of Westport. All that parcel of land containing seventy-three (73) acres, more or less, being bounded towards the Nortb by Gladstone street; towards -the East by Palmerston street; towards the South by Bentham street; and towards the West by the Biver Buller: Excepting one (1) or less, bounded towards the North by Gladstone street, five hundred (500) links ; towards the East by Palmerston slreet, two hundred (200) links; towards the South by Kennedy street, five hundred (500) links; and towards the West by Molesworth street, two hundred (200) links.