✨ Land Proclamation
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, setting apart certain land as a site for a town.
I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the 23rd clause of the Regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Canterbury, and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, proclaim and declare that the undermentioned blocks of land have been set apart as a site for the Town of Hokitika; that is to say,—
TOWN OF HOKITIKA NORTH.
All that piece or parcel of land containing 640 acres more or less, situate on the north side of the Hokitika river commencing at a point on the high bank of the old bed of the aforesaid river, the said point being forty chains forty links west of trigonometrical station 31; thence following a line bearing N. 20 deg. 14 min. E. (magnetic) a distance of sixty-two chains sixty-five links; thence westerly at a right angle a distance of eighty-five chains forty links to the sea beach, following the said beach southerly to the mouth of the Hokitika river; and from thence returning along the northern bank thereof and the high bank of the old river bed above mentioned to the commencing point.
TOWN OF HOKITIKA SOUTH.
All that parcel of land, containing 640 acres, more or less, situate on the Hokitika River, West Coast, bounded on the northward by reserve 271 in red, on the westward by the sea, on the east by section No. 8238, and a line in continuation of the western boundary thereof, and on the southward by a line at right angles to the last-described boundary and about one hundred and thirty chains distant on the average from the reserve above-mentioned.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Twenty-second day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
CHRISTCHURCH :
Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the ‘Press’ Office, Cashel-street, by JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 3
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🗺️ Proclamation setting apart land for the Town of Hokitika
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey22 January 1866
Proclamation, Town Site, Hokitika, Land Allocation, Canterbury Province
- Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- EDW. JOLLIE, Provincial Secretary