✨ Proclamations on Land and Courts
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1857.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, &c., &c.
W HEREAS 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
Auckland, this eighth day
of December, 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,
KAIPARA DISTRICT, OKAHU BLOCK,
(Containing about 16,000 acres.)
The boundaries commence inland of Toka-
toka on the survey line commenced by Mr.
Fenton and completed by Mr. McCabe, which
extends to the Manganui river, and bears by
compass 30 degrees 0 minutes, the distance
being 626 chains 93 links; it then follows
the course of the Manganui river as far as
Mr. Fenton's survey line, which cuts the river
as directed by Matitikuha, bearing by compass
14 degrees 15 minutes, distance 270 chains, 80
links, to a line bearing 338 degrees 0 minutes,
distance 127 chains, 20 links, and along the
line bearing 129 degrees 2 minutes, distance 196
chains to the point of commencement.
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.
W
HEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council,
Session 3, No. 1, intituled "An Ordinance for
Establishing a Supreme Court," the Governor
of New Zealand is empowered, with the
advice of the Executive Council, by Procla-
mation from time to time, to divide the Colony
into Districts for the purposes of the said
recited Ordinance, and the limits of such
Districts from time to time to alter, as occasion
may require.
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🗺️ Proclamation Extinguishing Native Title over Okahu Block
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey8 December 1857
Proclamation, Native Title, Waste Lands Act 1856, Kaipara District, Okahu Block, Survey
- Fenton (Mr.), Mentioned in survey line commencement
- McCabe (Mr.), Completed survey line
- Matitikuha, Directed bearing for survey line
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- E. W. Stafford
⚖️ Proclamation Regarding Supreme Court District Division
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementSupreme Court, Ordinance, Legislative Council, District division
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand