✨ Proclamation and Gold Field Report
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Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XVII.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1868. [No. 3.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS, by delegation from His Excellency the Governor, under “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” the power has been given to me as Superintendent, to make and prescribe Rules and Regulations for the management of Gold Fields situate within the Province of Auckland, and from time to time to alter and revoke such Rules and Regulations;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to make and prescribe the following Regulation as regards the Coromandel Gold Field;
NOW THEREFORE, I, JOHN WILLIAMSON, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in pursuance of the powers so vested in me by the provisions of the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare, that the aftermentioned Rule shall, on and after the twenty-fifth day of January instant, be in force on the Coromandel Gold Field, any other Rules and Regulations to the contrary notwithstanding:—
“When horse, steam, or water power is employed, each horse power shall be deemed equal to three men.”
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Province, at Auckland, this twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
GOLD-FIELD AT TAPU CREEK.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 25th January, 1868.
THE following Report, this day received from James Mackay, Esq., Gold-field’s Commissioner, at Shortland, is published for general information.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
Gold-field’s Office,
Shortland, 23rd January, 1868.
SIR,—I have the honor to inform you that there is every prospect of there being a permanent field for gold mining at Waipatukahu, or Tapu Creek. In proof of which I may mention, that on Monday last (20th) instructions were given for laying off a small township there, and yesterday, on the frontages of the allotments being pegged out, the whole (forty-nine in number) were at once taken up for business sites by persons then on the ground. I was not able to visit the
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1868, No 3
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🗺️ Proclamation regarding Coromandel Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey25 January 1868
Gold Fields, Regulations, Coromandel, Horse Power
- John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
🗺️ Report on Gold-field at Tapu Creek
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey25 January 1868
Gold Mining, Tapu Creek, Waipatukahu, Township
- J. Williamson, Superintendent
- James Mackay, Esq., Gold-field's Commissioner