Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1867 – No. 40

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✨ Gold Fields Regulations and Geological Report



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must, if carrying on business thereon, be the holder of a Business License.

  1. No person holding a "Business License" shall be entitled to carry on business in two distinct places in virtue of one license.

  2. No person will be allowed to depasture any cattle or stock within the limits of the Gold Field, unless he receive permission in writing from the Warden.

  3. All lands used as Native Burial grounds are to be respected, the locality of such will be indicated by notice posted on the ground.

  4. The regulation of all other operations and proceedings connected with the proper working of the Gold Field, shall be left to the discretion and judgment of the Warden, until otherwise provided for.

  5. Every person committing any breach whether of omission or commission of any of the above Rules and Regulations, will be liable to the penalties set forth in the "Gold Fields Act, 1866," viz.:

For the first offence, a fine of any sum not exceeding £10. And for the second or any subsequent offence, not exceeding £20.

N.B. Persons Mining on Native Lands not included in the boundaries of the "Gold Field," but adjoining thereto, shall be liable to the penalties set forth in Clause No. 98 of the Act.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OFFICE AND COLONIAL MUSEUM,

Wellington, August 14, 1867.

SIR,—I have the honor to report that the sample of gold from the Thames Valley, which you placed in my hands, has been examined in the laboratory of this department, and is found to consist of two distinct qualities of gold.

1st—That intermixed with quartz, contains a large proportion of silver, like the gold from Coromandel.

2nd—That which is in waterworn grains, is comparatively free from silver, and resembles South Island gold in quality.

Along with the gold are a few grains of cinnabar, or native sulphuret of mercury, and also of iron ore.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Yours obediently,

JAMES HECTOR.

His Honor the Superintendent of Auckland, M.H.R.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Auckland by W. C. Wilson, Wyndham Street, Auckland. Printer for the time being to the Provincial Government




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🗺️ Gold Fields Regulations (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Gold Fields, Regulations, Mining, Claims, Water Races, Licenses

🌾 Geological Survey Report on Gold from Thames Valley

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
14 August 1867
Gold, Geological Survey, Thames Valley, Coromandel, South Island, Silver, Cinnabar, Iron Ore
  • James Hector