✨ Provincial Government Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
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 may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
J. C. RICHMOND, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XI. NELSON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863. No. 28.
PROCLAMATION.
By his Honor JOHN PERRY ROBINSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by "The Gold-fields Act, 1862," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any province, or such other Person as he may deem fit, certain powers under the said Act: And whereas his Excellency has been pleased to delegate to me, so far as relates to the Province of Nelson, the powers so authorised to be conferred:
Now, therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in exercise of the said recited powers, do constitute and appoint all the territory hereinafter described to be a Gold-field under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say, All that territory whereof the boundary commences at Rangihaeta Head, at the mouth of the River Takaka; thence up the western bank of that river to its junction with the Anatoki River; thence up the eastern bank of the Anatoki River to the western angle of section numbered 136, on square numbered 11, of the map of the Province of Nelson; thence, following the western boundary of the surveyed lands in the Districts of Takaka and Upper Takaka, to the south-west angle of section numbered 40, on square numbered 8, of the said map; thence up the Waituhi Stream to its source, near Mount Campbell; thence along the watershed of Blind Bay, and of the valley of the River Takaka to the source of that river, at Mount Arthur; thence, in a straight line, to the most north-easterly source of the Karamea River; thence down that river to its mouth; thence, by the sea-coast, to the north head of the Whakapohai or Heaphy River; thence along the Whakamarama range to the summit of Mount Burnett; thence, by a straight line, to the mouth of the Ruataniwha River; thence, by the sea-coast, to the mouth of the Aorere River; thence, following the seaward boundary of sections numbered 237 and 238 of the Suburbs of Collingwood, to the north-west angle of the Township of Collingwood; thence, following the inland boundary of that Township, and of the Native Reserve called Papakowhai, to the sea; thence, by the sea-coast, to the northern angle of section numbered 104, on square numbered 14, of the said
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 28
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🌾 Proclamation constituting a Gold-field in the Province of Nelson
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesGold-field, Gold-fields Act 1862, Nelson Province, Takaka, Collingwood, Boundaries
- John Perry Robinson (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Nelson
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary
- John Perry Robinson, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson