Order in Council

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 February 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

Order in Council

At the Government House at Wellington the Ninth Day of May 1866 PRESENT: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL IN exercise of the powers vested in the Governor by “The Native < Reserves Act 1856” and “The Native Reserves Amendment Act 1862,” the Governor with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby order that the land hereinafter described, that is to say: All that piece of land containing by admeasurement, five acres (5) more or less, situated on the River Grey, in the District of Westland, in the Province of Canterbury, bounded on the’North, seven hundred and sixty-nine links (769) by a public street or road, known as the Mawhera Quay, on the banks of the said river; on the East seven hundred links (700), by -a proposed line of road one chain in width; on the South seven hundred and sixty-nine links (769), by other portion of the Native Reserve of which this block forms a part; and on the West seven hundred links (700), partly by the said Native Reserve, partly by Mackay Street, and partly by other portion of the said Native Reserve leased to Reuben Waite, being land subject to the operation of the said Acts;* shall be sold, and the same is hereby sold: to the Superintendent df the Province of Canterbury for the sum of One Hundred Pounds; and in further exercise of the powers aforesaid, the Governor, with the like advice and consent, doth order that, all that piece of land, containing by admeasurement six (6) acres and two (2) roods, more or less situated on the River Grey in the District of Westland, in the Province of Canterbury being intended for two roads, eacn one chain in width, one measuring in length four thousand one hundred links (4,100), and the other, two thousand four hundred links (2,400), and which said piece of land is bounded on the Northward, one hun- • dred links (1Q0) by a tidal creek; on the Southward, one hundred links (TOO), at the extremity of each road respectively by a street bounding the proposed, Town of Greymouth, in the said district; and on all other sides by the Native Reserve of which it formed part, being land subject to the operation of the said Acts; shall be sold, and the same is hereby sold to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury; for the sum of Thirty-two Pounds Ten Shillings.

, FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council. COLONIAL SECRETARY’S OFFICE, • WELLINGTON, May 6, 1868. ’J’HE undermentioned Petition under the Provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act 1867” has been received and a copj r of it has in accordance with that Act been sent to the Hon'. J. Hall for the further action required by law in respect thereof.

T. M. HAULTAIN,

For the Colonial Secretary:

Number and Description of Petitioners Date of receipt of Petition Prayer of 1 • Petition One Hundred and FiftySix inhabitants, householders of Greymouth. ! 27th April, ' 1868 ■- i .? •For the Town of Greymouth. to bo constituted a Borough under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act 1867.”