✨ Goldfields Proclamations




Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

VOL. XXIV.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875. [No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

By the Honorable DANIEL POLLEN.

WHEREAS by the third section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Goldfields 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 Goldfield under the provisions of the said Act. 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, Daniel Pollen:

Now, I, the said Daniel Pollen, in exercise of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint to be a "Goldfield" under the provisions of the said Act, All that block of land in the District of Hauraki in the Province of Auckland and the Colony of New Zealand, known as the "Ohinemuri Block;" bounded towards the North from Kurere by lines known as "Tole's line" forming the Southern boundary of part of the Hikutaia number three block, the Southern boundary of part of the land granted to Mr. McCaskill, the southern boundary of other part of the Hikutaia number three block, the Southern boundary of the Whangamata number three block, and the Southern boundary of the Whangamata number four block to Te Papiri on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, as the same are more particularly described in the plans lodged in the Inspector of Surveys' Office at Auckland; thence towards the East by the sea coast from Te Papiri to Nga-kuri-a-whare; thence towards the South by a line forming the Northern boundary of the Tauranga District; thence towards the West by a line to Waitawheta stream, eighty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-nine links to the Waitawheta stream; thence by that stream to the North-east angle of the "Aroha block;" thence by lines forming part of the northern boundary of the "Aroha block" seven thousand one hundred and forty-seven links, and twenty-seven thousand five hundred and thirteen links respectively to Mangaiti; thence towards the West by a line to Tikirahi twenty thousand two hundred and thirty-one links; thence by a line ten thousand six hundred and sixty links to Rauwharangi; thence by a line fourteen thousand and eighty links to Te Karaka; thence by a line seven thousand nine hundred and forty-five links to Omatao on the bank of the river Ohinemuri; thence by that river to Te Koutu, thence by a line six thousand two hundred and sixty-eight links to Wharerata, thence by a line three thousand and seven links to Te Paeroa; thence by a line twenty-six thousand five hundred and ninety links to Te Komata, and thence by a line twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ten links to Kurere, the point of commencement.

Given under my hand at Auckland in the Province of Auckland, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, this third day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

PROCLAMATION.

By the Honorable DANIEL POLLEN.

WHEREAS by the tenth section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Goldfields Act, 1866," it is enacted...



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πŸ—ΊοΈ Proclamation of Ohinemuri Block as a Goldfield

πŸ—ΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey
3 March 1875
Goldfields Act, Proclamation, Ohinemuri Block, Hauraki District, Auckland Province
  • Daniel Pollen

πŸ—ΊοΈ Proclamation under the Goldfields Act, 1866

πŸ—ΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Goldfields Act, Proclamation
  • Daniel Pollen