✨ Land Title Proclamation
Numb. 18.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1858.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS the land hereinafter men-
tioned has been acquired by purchase,
from the Aboriginal inhabitants of New Zea-
land, and it is expedient that the acquisition
thereof should be notified by Proclamation
accordingly.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Block of
Land whereof the boundaries 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 fifth day of
June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
SCHEDULE:
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
DISTRICT OF KAIPARA.
Matakohe Block.
68,000 Acres.
BOUNDARIES.
A line commencing at the South West
corner of the Tokatoka purchase, on the left
bank of Te Wairoa river, thence along the left
bank of the river to the mouth of the Kowai
Creek, thence by a line bearing 55° 15' 1622
links, thence by a line bearing 58° 35' 5271
links thence by a line bearing 53° 17' 4957 and
5770 links, crossing Arapukeaka, Kukakore,
and Aporotini Creeks, thence by a
line bearing 54° 4' 8825 links, crossing
Kotirine Creek and running into the
Matatitu river, Arapaoa, thence by the
water's edge to Te Awamutu, and on to
Matakohe and to the mouth of Paparoa, thence
on in a northerly direction along the zigzag
line surveyed by Mr. Buchanan, which crosses
Otara, Matakohe, Poauau, Mahinahina, Manga-
whakairito, Puketotara, Mangatawa, Pukekohe,
Pureheha Creeks on to the Mangonui river,
thence in the course of that river to the boun-
dary line of Okahu purchase which bears
31° 35' 62,693 links, thence by a line bearing
51° 0' 5077 links, thence by a line bearing
320° 25' 9800 links, thence by a line bearing
51° 5077 and 25,935 links to the S.W. corner
of the Tokatoka purchase where the boundaries
meet.
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NZ Gazette 1858, No 18
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🗺️ Proclamation extinguishing Native Title over Matakohe Block
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 June 1858
Proclamation, Native Title, Land acquisition, Kaipara, Matakohe Block, Survey boundaries
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford
- Mr. Buchanan