New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 36

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✨ Proclamation defining districts

SOIT QUI MAL Y
PENSE DROIT

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1854. [No. 36.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Companion
of the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Officer administering
the Government, and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the Islands
of New Zealand and its depend-
encies, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
by the General Assembly of New
Zealand intituled the "Marriage Act, 1854,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor by Proclamation, to divide the
Colony of New Zealand into such and so
many Districts as he shall think fit, and that
every such District shall be ca'led by a dis-
tinguished name, and shall be a Registrar's District
for the purposes in the said Act mentioned.
Now I, the Officer administering the Govern-
ment, pursuant to the authority in me vested
in that behalf, do hereby PROCLAIM and
DECLARE that so much of the said Colony of
New Zealand as is comprised within the fol-
lowing boundaries shall be a Registrar's
District, and shall be called "the District of
Auckland," viz.:-

AUCKLAND DISTRICT.
Bounded on the North by a line drawn
from the North Head of the Kaipara Har-
bour to the mid channel of the Oruawharu
branch of the said harbour, following the
mid channel of the Oruawharu to its june-
tion with the river Hakuru, thence along
the mid channel of the Hakuru to its source, thence by a line connecting the
source of the Hakuru with the source of
the southern branch of the Mangawai river,
thence down the mid channel of the Man-
gawai to the sea.
On the West and East, by the sea and
the mid channel of the river Piako with
junction with Tahunatapu river.
On the South by a line passing midway
between the north and south head of
Whaingaroa harbour, thence passing up
the mid channel of the northern branch of
the said harbour to the Waitetuna river,
thence along the mid channel of the Wai-
tetuna to where the road to the Native vil-
lage of Wata Wata crosses it, thence along
the road to Wata Wata until it crosses the
Waipa river at the village; thence down
the said channel of the Waipa and Waika-
to to the junction with the river Manga-
wharu, near Taupiri; thence along the mid
channel of the Mangawharu to the Piako
portage; thence along the said portage to
its junction with the Tahunatapu river;
thence down the mid channel of the Tahu-
atapu to its junction with the Piako river.
Including all the Islands lying on the
coast in the gulf of the Thames to the west
of a line drawn from the mouth of the
Piako river to the east side of the Little
Barrier, the Fanel Islands and the small
Islands adjacent to each of these.

THAMES DISTRICT.
That so much of the said Colony as is com-
prised within the following boundaries shall
be a Registrar's District, and shall be called
"the Thames Dis rict,"

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