Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1864 – No. 23

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✨ Provincial Government Notices

Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

Vol. XIII.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1864. [No. 28.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 5th August, 1864.

The following notification, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 20th July ultimo, is republished for general information.

Robert Graham,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Native Department),
Auckland, July 8th, 1864.

It is hereby notified that the Native Title has been extinguished over the Block of Land whereof the boundaries are mentioned or described in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

William Fox.

SCHEDULE.

District of Kaipara,
Waikiekie Block,
Containing 33,800 Acres.

Boundaries.

Commencing at the junction of the Manganui and Tauraroa rivers, and following the course of the Tauraroa to the western boundary of Ruarangi block, thence along the boundary of Ruarangi block to the boundary line of Mareretu block, surveyed by Mr. Charles Knight, thence by a right line to the Manganui river, thence along the Manganui river to its junction with Tauraroa, the point of commencement.

PROCLAMATION.

By Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province and such times for holding the first and every other Session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit.

Now, therefore, pursuant to the authority in me vested in that behalf, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby proclaim and declare that the seventeenth session of the Provincial Council shall be holden at Auckland, and shall commence on Friday the thirtieth day of September next; and the members of the said Council are hereby warned to give their attendance at the said time and place accordingly.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Robert Graham,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the second clause of the “Highways Act, 1862,” I do hereby declare that the lands comprised within the several boundaries hereunder described, shall be a district under the said Act, and that such district shall be known by the name thereto prefixed, that is to say,—

The District of Wangaroa North.

All the land comprised within the western boundary of the Whakapaku Parish, till it

VUW Te Waharoa — Auckland Provincial Gazette 1864, No 23

After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1865, the Auckland Provincial Council sat in General Assembly House (depicted).

It was nicknamed the 'Shedifice' as it was large and drafty, with a leaking roof. First premier Henry Sewell described it as 'a great wooden barnshaped affair, which might serve for a Hospital, a Jail, or a Barrack'.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Extinguishment of Native Title

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated8 July 1864
KeywordsNative Title, Land, Kaipara, Waikiekie Block
👩‍💼 Officials

William Fox

🏘️ Proclamation of Provincial Council Session

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated10 August 1864
KeywordsProvincial Council, Session, Auckland
👩‍💼 Officials

Robert Graham, Superintendent

🏗️ Declaration of Highway District

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsHighway District, Wangaroa North, Whakapaku Parish
👩‍💼 Officials

Robert Graham, Superintendent

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