✨ Proclamation of Gold Field
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto 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. XIII.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1872. [No. 226.
PROCLAMATION.
By his Honor Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand.
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 to constitute the land hereinafter described a Gold Field.
Now therefore, I, Arthur Penrose Seymour, the Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, do hereby constitute and appoint a Gold Field under the provisions of “The Gold Fields Act, 1856,” to be called “The Ravescliff Gold Field,” the boundaries whereof shall be as follows:
—Commencing at a point 1200 links in a right line along the coast, South of Waihi Point, near “Jackson’s Head,” Queen Charlotte Sound, and thence towards the North by a right line bearing West 30° North, magnetic, to the coast in Port Gore: thence towards the West by the waters of Port Gore for a distance, in a right line, of 4000 links; thence towards the South by a right line, bearing East 30° South, magnetic, to the coast in Queen Charlotte Sound; thence towards the East by the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound to the starting point.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, at Blenheim, this Fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
By his Honor’s command,
W. H. Eyes,
Provincial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1872, No 226
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🗺️ Proclamation of Ravescliff Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 February 1872
Proclamation, Gold Field, Ravescliff, Marlborough, Queen Charlotte Sound
- Arthur Penrose Seymour, Superintendent
- W. H. Eyes, Provincial Secretary