✨ Sailing Directions Notice
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature,
are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may
relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. I.] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1854. [No. XX.]
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 5th June, 1854.
THE following letter from Captain Drury,
of H. M. S. Pandora, with its en-
closures, is published for general information.
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.
H.M. Surveying Vessel Pandora,
Pelorus River, Cook’s Strait,
13th February, 1854.
Sir,—I have the honour to transmit
through you to His Excellency Colonel
Wynyard, for general information, Sailing
Directions for the navigation of the East
Coast of the North Island, between Tura-
ga (Poverty Bay) North of Hawke’s Bay,
and the Kati-Kati, North of the Bay of
Plenty, with the adjacent islands and reefs.
A very fine season has permitted a gene-
ral examination of all that is requisite in
determining the extent and position of off-
laying dangers; and having carefully in-
vestigated every report as to rocks and
shoals, gathered from the Europeans and
Natives along the coast, I have every reason
to hope that this report will render the ap-
proach to these shores as easy as circum-
stances admit.
The Pandora has been employed a por-
tion of two seasons on this part of the Sur-
vey, and officers have walked the whole line
of country on the Coast; and it affords me
much pleasure in stating that on all occa-
sions they have received kind assistance
and hospitality from the Missionaries so
characteristic of their vocation.
From the coasting traders (and I may
especially mention Captain Ellis of the
Eliza), we have received much valuable
information.
The Natives have uniformly been very
hospitable when occasion really required it;
but at rivers in the Bay of Plenty, where no
European was within reach, their exorbitant
demands for crossing a few yards in their
canoes were found a great source of annoy-
ance and delay: it would be a great boon
to travellers if some general understanding
upon this point could be made with the
various tribes on the coast, for the only
difficulties our travellers met with may be
comprehended in being at the mercy of the
Natives on such occasions.
Should our detached Survey on the West
Coast have successfully completed the ex-
amination of the Ports between Manukau
and Taranaki, I think that in connection
with the Acheron’s Survey, the Northern
Island has been fairly examined, and all the
charts are now completed excepting such
soundings along the coast as opportunity
will admit of.
I have, &c.,
BYRON DRURY,
Commander and Surveyor.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
Auckland.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1854, No 20
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🏗️ Publication of Sailing Directions for East Coast Navigation
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Sailing Directions, East Coast, North Island, Navigation, Survey
- Byron Drury (Commander and Surveyor), Author of Sailing Directions
- Ellis (Captain), Provided valuable information
- H. G. Gould, Provincial Secretary
- Byron Drury, Commander and Surveyor