✨ 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 XV] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1874. [No. 255.
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 whereas, the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, did, on the Thirtieth day of March, 1874, delegate the said vested power unto me, Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, to have, hold, and exercise within the said Province: And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of “The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Field,” in the said Province:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur Penrose Seymour, the Superintendent of the said Province of Marlborough, do, by this Proclamation, appoint that the boundaries hereinafter mentioned shall henceforth be the limits of “The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Field,” aforesaid, instead of the boundaries defined in a certain Proclamation bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, 1872, given under my hand, and issued under the seal of the said Province.
BOUNDARIES OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND GOLD FIELD.
Towards the South by the Northern boundary of section numbered III, in the District of Queen Charlotte Sound, from high water mark in Torea Moana Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, to the watershed between the Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds; thence towards the West by that watershed to Mount Stokes; thence by the said watershed to the Southern boundary of the Titirangi Run; thence towards the North by that boundary to high water mark in Melville Cove, Port Gore Bay;
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1874, No 255
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- Arthur Penrose Seymour, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough