✨ Provincial Government Proclamations
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XXI.] TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1872. [No. 41.
HAURAKI GOLD MINING DISTRICT.
PROCLAMATION.
By THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.
BY virtue of the powers to me delegated by the Governor in Council, under his hand, and the public seal of the Colony, under “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1871,” I do hereby revoke the exemption of land made by my proclamation, dated the nineteenth day of June, 1872, and published in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, No. 22, of the 25th June, 1872, as the same is more particularly described in the Schedule hereunder.
Given under my hand and seal, at Auckland, this ninth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
THOMAS B. GILLIES,
Superintendent.
SCHEDULE.
All that portion of land bounded by a line commencing at high-watermark at a point, eight (8) chains north-west (or Tararu side) of the junction of the Opitomoko Creek with Hauraki Gulf, and bearing forty-nine degrees (49° 0’) east, and measuring one hundred and twelve (112) chains; thence by a line at right angles, bearing one hundred and thirty-nine degrees (139° 0’) south-east of north, measuring forty (40) chains, thence by a line, parallel to the first line, bearing forty-nine degrees (49° 0’ or 229° 0’) west, continuing down to high-watermark, thence by the Hauraki Gulf to the point first mentioned. All bearings from first line, including angles of 90° 0’.
PROCLAMATION.
By THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.
WHEREAS by an Act made and passed by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled “The Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1866,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Superintendent may from time to time, by public notification in the Provincial Government Gazette, appoint and define the limits of cities, towns, and other places, within the Province of Auckland, for the purposes of the said Act.
Now therefore I, Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, pursuant to the authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that for the purposes of the said “Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1866,” the limits of the TOWN OF SHORTLAND, within which the said Act shall from the date hereof come into force, shall comprise all those lands situate on the Frith of the Thames, District of Hauraki, bounded towards the north-west by the Karaka Creek; towards the north-east by lines bearing 295° 28’ 607 links, 161° 03’ 1109 links, 312° 19’ 231 links, 143° 04’ 803 links, 303° 00’ 553 links, 128° 56’ 1136 links, 310° 58’ 857 links, 122° 41’ 201 links, 135° 40’ 335 links, 87° 06’ 240 links, 271° 26’ 1300 links, 79° 31’ 595 links, and 298° 54’ 680 links; towards the south-east by lines 249° 49’ 944 links, 82° 43’ 221 links, 239° 47’ 366 links, 106° 52’ 305 links, 259° 47’ 279 links, 46° 44’ 189 links, 218° 59’ 394 links, 215° 52’ 365 links, 249° 00’ 306 links, 36° 12’ 315 links, 153° 00’ 214 links, 1° 00’ 425 links, 170° 45’ 149 links, 71° 55’ 139 links, 199° 30’ 163
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1872, No 41
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🗺️ Revocation of Land Exemption in Hauraki Gold Mining District
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey9 December 1872
Land exemption, Revocation, Hauraki Gold Mining District, Proclamation
- Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
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⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementTown boundaries, Municipal Police Act, Shortland, Proclamation
- Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland