✨ Gold Field Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
VOL. X. SATURDAY, MAY, 21, 1870. No. 198.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honour Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough in the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by Clause III. of “The Gold Fields 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 Gold Field under the provisions of the said act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter as occasion may require; and also if he shall see fit, to revoke such proclamation.
And whereas, by a Warrant bearing date the Fourth day of May, 1870, under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, the said recited power, so far as regards the Province of Marlborough, was delegated to me, Arthur Penrose Seymour, the Superintendent of the said province; and whereas it is expedient that a certain portion of the Province of Marlborough should be constituted a Gold Field.
Now, therefore, I, Arthur Penrose Seymour, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, do hereby constitute and appoint a Gold Field under the provisions of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” to be called the “Wairau Gold Field,” the boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—Towards the West—The river Coulter to the junction of Ward’s Pass Creek, and thence by that creek to its source; towards the East—The trunk line of road from the river Wairau towards Havelock; towards the South—The river Wairau, and towards the North—The summit of the dividing range between the Pelorus and Wairau Valleys, so as to include all the watershed of the river Wairau between the before-mentioned East and West boundaries, excepting the freehold lands within those boundaries.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, at Blenheim, this twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
By His Honour’s command,
JAMES BALFOUR WEMYSS,
Provincial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1870, No 198
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🗺️ Proclamation of Wairau Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey20 May 1870
Gold Field, Proclamation, Wairau, Marlborough
- Arthur Penrose Seymour (Esquire), Proclaimed Wairau Gold Field
- A. P. Seymour, Superintendent
- James Balfour Wemyss, Provincial Secretary