✨ Proclamation of Municipal District
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, 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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1866. [No. XLII.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor SAMUEL BEALY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, proclaiming Hokitika a Municipal District.
WHEREAS, in accordance with Clause 3 of “The Municipal Council Ordinance, Session XIV, No. 2,” a petition from the residents and householders in Hokitika, praying for the proclamation of the Town of Hokitika as a Municipal District, was published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 30th April, 1866, No. 36, and no counter petition has been received since the date of such publication: Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, declare the Town of Hokitika to be a Municipal District under the said Ordinance and “The Municipal Council Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866,” and that the boundaries of the said District shall be as follows; that is to say,—
All that piece or parcel of land, containing 640 acres, more or less, situate on 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.
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. 8288 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 Thirtieth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. 13.—No. 42.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 42
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🏘️ Proclamation of Hokitika as a Municipal District
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government30 May 1866
Municipal District, Hokitika, Proclamation, Canterbury Province
- Samuel Bealey, Superintendent
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary