✨ Gold Fields Proclamation
AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XVII.] THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1868. [No. 20.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by the third section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by Proclamation to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter as occasion may require, and also, if he shall see fit, to revoke the proclamation by which such Gold Field shall have been constituted; and whereas, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act, the powers thus vested in the Governor by the third section of the said Act have been duly delegated to me, John Williamson, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, and whereas in exercise of the said power and authority, on the twenty-first day of November last, I did, by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, constitute and appoint a certain block of land in the District of Hauraki, in the Province of Auckland, to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act; and whereas it is expedient that the said Proclamation should be revoked, and the boundaries as therein described should be altered and extended: Now, therefore, I, John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby revoke the said proclamation, and in lieu thereof do hereby constitute and appoint all that block of land in the District of Hauraki, in the Province of Auckland, as hereinafter described, to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say—All that block of land commencing on the north at Tuapo, on the Eastern shore of the Hauraki gulf, thence by a survey line to the summit of the Ruahine hill, thence by a survey line along the range of hills dividing the rivers Manaia and Waikawau to Pongawhakairo, thence to the source of the river Waikawau; thence on the East by the range of mountains forming the watershed between the gulf of Hauraki and the East Coast, and between the valley of the Thames, or Waihou, and the East Coast, to the source of the Omahu stream; thence on the South by that stream to the South-eastern extremity of the Native reserve; thence on the West by the Eastern boundary of the said Native reserve to Kakarimata, thence by a public road and ditch to the river Waiwhakauranga, thence by that river to the sea, thence by the sea coast to the point of commencement: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorise the mining for gold on, or the occupation of any reserve which shall have been made for Native cultivation, burial
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1868, No 20
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- John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland