✨ 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. XII.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1872. [No. 235.]
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 whereas, by a Warrant, bearing date the Fourth day of May, 1870, under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, the said vested 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 a Gold Field, to comprise the Land hereinafter described.
Now therefore I, ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, do hereby constitute and appoint a Gold Field under the said Act to be called “The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Field,” the limits and boundaries whereof shall be as follows, that is to say:
All that portion of the Province of Marlborough, bounded towards the South by land granted to Joseph Toms at Ko Anara, Queen Charlotte Sound, and a Public Road through the Grove to the Mahakipawa Flats, Pelorus Sound; thence towards the West, North, and East by the waters of Pelorus Sound, Cook Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound, to the aforesaid Southern boundary, excepting therefrom all Freehold, Leasehold, and Lesehold Lands, Native and other Reserves and Private Lands within the said boundaries.
Given under my hand at Wellington, this Nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and issued under the seal of the Province of Marlborough, at Blenheim.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent,
By His Honor’s command,
W. H. Eyes,
Provincial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1872, No 235
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🗺️ Proclamation of Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey19 October 1872
Gold Field, Proclamation, Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough Province
- Joseph Toms, Landowner mentioned in boundary description
- Arthur Penrose Seymour, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough
- W. H. Eyes, Provincial Secretary