✨ Land Title Proclamation and Elections
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1857.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the aboriginal
inhabitants, after the passing thereof, shall be
open for sale or disposal until the Governor
shall have notified, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Government Gazette, that the
Native Title has been extinguished over such
land.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Block of Land, the
boundaries whereof are mentioned or described
in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this second day of
November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
Manukau District.—Manukau Block.
Containing about 22,000 Acres.
The boundary commences at Te Ruawhai-a-
roa; thence running in a South Westerly di-
rection (bearing by compass 202°) to
Wairua-Whakakai; thence to Waipohue,
on to the West Coast (compass bear-
ing 222° 45') thence along the Coast
Southerly to Te Kawakawa, Turakiraki, Muri-
whenua, Opongo, Hereputiputi, Waimataku,
Arapo; thence Eastward (compass bearing 60°
50') to Te Ra-o-puninga, the Waiwata Swamp,
the Ripekanga, thence in a straight line (com-
pass bearing 52° 10') to its junction again
with the Waiwata Swamp at Pukekowhai,
thence down the Swamp to Matakawau Creek,
and down the Creek to where it empties itself
into Manukau Harbour at Otamaniwha; thence
along the shore of Manukau Harbour to Ko-
piri, Kaitara, Tewharau, Kauritutahi, Tata-
ngarau, Te Mori-a-whero, Te Kauri-kaihau,
Wairere, Te Mako, Te Aute, Te Ihu-kuri, Te
Rua-o-whairoa; there the boundaries join.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, November 9th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that Writs issued for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council
for the Province of Auckland, have been re-
turned with certificates to the effect that,
For the City of Auckland,
James Thomas Boylan, Esq.
Patrick Dignan, Esq.
Edward King, Esq.
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 29
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🗺️ Proclamation Extinguishing Native Title over Manukau Block
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey2 November 1857
Proclamation, Native Title, Land Sale, Waste Lands Act 1856, Manukau Block, Auckland Province
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- E. W. Stafford
🏘️ Writs Returned for Auckland Provincial Council Elections
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government9 November 1857
Election writs, Provincial Council, Auckland City, Elected members
- James Thomas Boylan (Esquire), Elected for Provincial Council
- Patrick Dignan (Esquire), Elected for Provincial Council
- Edward King (Esquire), Elected for Provincial Council
- Governor