✨ Proclamation of Town Sites
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. XIV.] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1867. [No. LVIII.]
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor FRANCIS EDWARD STEWART,
Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, setting apart certain lands as sites for Towns.
FRANCIS EDWARD STEWART,
Deputy-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 sites for Towns, 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 north 20 deg. 14 min. east (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 180 chains distant, on the average, from the reserve above mentioned.
Town of Greymouth.
All that piece or parcel of land containing 1000 acres, more or less, situate at the mouth of the River Grey, commencing at the south-eastern corner of Native Reserve No. 31, thence following a line in a south-westerly direction, at an angle of 74 deg. 13 min. with the southern boundary of the before-mentioned reserve, a distance of about 122 chains; thence north-westerly, at a right angle, a distance of about 118 chains to the sea-beach, following the beach to the mouth of the Grey; thence following the southern bank of that river to the north-western corner of the Native Reserve before mentioned; and from thence returning along the western boundary of the reserve.
Vol. 14.--No. 68.
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🗺️ Proclamation of Town Sites in Canterbury Province
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey4 September 1867
Proclamation, Town Sites, Hokitika North, Hokitika South, Greymouth, Canterbury Province
- Francis Edward Stewart (Esquire), Issued proclamation
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary