✨ Proclamation of Provincial Boundaries
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
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 Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. VI.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1853. [No. 7.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor-in-Chief, and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, C. LXXII, in-titled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand."
And whereas, the said Act in accordance with the provisions thereof was Proclaimed in the said Colony of New Zealand on the Seventeenth day of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Three.
And whereas, by the second clause of the above recited Act the following Provinces were established in the said Colony of New Zealand, namely
THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
THE PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.
THE PROVINCE OF NELSON.
THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, and
THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
And whereas, it was by the same clause of the same Act further enacted that "the limits of such several Provinces shall be fixed by Proclamation by the Governor as soon as conveniently may be after the Proclamation of the said Act."
Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the limits of the Provinces aforesaid shall be as follows, namely,
THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND shall be bounded on
The North
By the Coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto.
The East
By the Coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto.
The West
By the Coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto.
The South
By the River Mokau to its source, thence by a right line running from the source of the Mokau, to the point where the Ngahuinga or Tupua the principal tributary of the Whanganui River is intersected by the thirty-ninth parallel of South Latitude, thence Eastward by the thirty-ninth parallel of South Latitude, to the
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🏛️ Proclamation defining the boundaries of the Provinces of New Zealand
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProclamation, Provincial boundaries, New Zealand Constitution Act, Auckland Province
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary
- Sir George Grey, Governor-in-Chief