Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 4

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✨ Goldfield boundary proclamation

THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.

All 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.

ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XVIII. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1870. No. 4.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor OSWALD CURTIS, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by a certain Proclamation bearing date the Eighth day of June, 1868, certain Lands within the Province of Nelson were declared to be a Goldfield within the meaning of the Goldfields Act, and called or styled "The Nelson South-west Goldfields" And whereas it is desirable and expedient to extend the boundaries of the said Goldfield :

Now, therefore, I, OSWALD CURTIS, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, by virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities in me vested in that behalf do hereby proclaim and declare that all that part of the Province of Nelson hereinafter described shall be a Goldfield for the purposes of the Goldfields Act, and shall be added to and form part of the Nelson South-west Goldfields, from and after the date hereof, and shall be subject to the rules and regulations now in force in the said Nelson South-west Goldfields, that is to say, All that territory comprised within the following boundaries, viz :

Commencing at the summit of Mount Arthur, thence southward and eastward along the existing boundary of the Nelson South-west Goldfields and the watershed of the Buller and Motueka Valleys to the range lying between the Tadmor and Motupiko rivers; thence along the top of the said range to a point on the top of said range found by prolonging the division line between sections 22 and 23, square numbered 5 on the plan of the Province of Nelson; thence in a straight line to and along said division line to the western bank of the river Motupiko; thence along said western bank and along the western bank of the river Motueka to the junction of the river Graham; thence along southern bank of Graham river to its main forks (about two miles from its junction with the Motueka); thence across the southern branch of the Graham to its junction with the northern branch; thence by a straight line bearing north 78deg. 30m. west magnetic to the summit of the range; thence along the top of the range to the summit of Mount Arthur.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province, at Nelson, this Ninth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.

Attested—
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by R. LUCAS and SON, Bridge-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.