✨ Gold Field Boundary Proclamation
Numb. 28.
153
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1860.
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 its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly intituled "The Gold Fields'
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time by Procla-
mation to constitute and appoint any portion of
the Colony to be a Gold Field under the pro-
visions of the said Act, and the limits of such
Gold Field from time to time to alter as occa-
sion may require :
And whereas by a Proclamation duly made
and issued, dated the fourth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, I
did, in pursuance of the said power and author-
ity, establish and appoint all that territory
therein described to be a Gold Field under the
provisions of the said Act, and by a further
Proclamation duly made and issued, dated the
twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty, did alter the limits thereof
so as to exclude from the said limits and from
the operation of the said Act the district known
as the "Town of Collingwood" :
And whereas
it is expedient further to alter the limits of the
said Gold Field, in manner hereinafter set forth
and declared,-
Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor, as aforesaid, of the said Colony,
do hereby in pursuance of the said recited
power and authority, alter the limits of the said
Gold Field, and do constitute and appoint all
the territory hereinafter described to be a Gold
Field under the provisions of the said Act, that
is to say:-All that territory whereof the
boundary commences at Rangihaeata Head at
the mouth of the river Takaka, thence up the
Western bank of that river to its junction with
the Anatoke river, thence up the Eastern bank
of that river to the Western angle of Section
numbered 136 of Square numbered 11 on the
Map of the Province of Nelson, thence follow-
ing the Western boundary of the surveyed
lands in the districts of Takaka and of Upper
Takaka respectively to the South-western angle
of Section numbered 14 of Square numbered 8
on the said Map, thence along the Southern
boundary of Sections numbered 14 and 3 of
the said Square numbered 8 on the said Map to
the Takaka river, thence up the said river to
its junction with the Waituhi stream, thence
up the said stream to its source near Mount
Campbell, thence along the watershed of Blind
Bay and of the valley of the river Takaka to
the source of that river at Mount Arthur,
thence in a straight line to the source of the
Karamea or Mackay river, thence down that
river to its junction with the sea, thence along
the sea coast to the North head of the Whaka-
pohai or Heaphy river, thence along the Wha-
kamarama range to the summit of Mount Bur-
nett, thence by a line to the mouth of the
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NZ Gazette 1860, No 28
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🗺️ Proclamation Altering Limits of Established Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 September 1860
Gold Field Act 1858, Boundary alteration, Proclamation, Takaka, Nelson Province, Mount Arthur
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief