✨ Proclamation of Marriage Districts
Numb. 49.
295
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION
Appointing certain Districts under the
"Marriage Act."
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Administrator of the Government
of Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and its Dependencies,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by the "Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor at
any time, by Proclamation in the New Zea-
land Gazette, to divide the Colony of New
Zealand for the purposes of the said Act into
such and so many Districts as he may think
fit, and that every such District shall be called
by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar's
District, and it is provided that the Governor
may at any time revoke the whole or any
part of such Proclamation and issue a new
Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part
of it anew into Districts or increasing the
number or altering the boundaries of Districts
as from time to time he may think requisite:
And whereas by a Proclamation duly made
and issued bearing date the sixteenth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, the Governor in pursuance of the
said recited power and authority did amongst
others constitute Two Districts for the pur-
poses of the said Act called the "Wangarei
District," and the "Waipu District," the
boundaries whereof respectively were therein
set forth, which said Proclamation came the
into operation, and took effect on the First
day of November, instant: And whereas it
is expedient to revoke so much of the said
Proclamation as relates to the said Two
Districts, and to divide anew the territory
formerly comprised within such Districts:-
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Administrator of the Government of the said
Colony, in pursuance and further exercise of
the power and authority vested in me by the
said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said
Proclamation so far as relates to the "Wan-
garei District" and the "Waipu District,"
and do proclaim and declare that the territory
formerly comprised within such Districts
shall be divided for the purposes of the said
Act into Four Districts, the names and
boundaries whereof shall be as follows :-
Mangapai District.
Bounded on the North by the Southern
boundary of the Maungatapere Block to the
Mangapai River and by the channel of that
river to Limestone Island; on the East by a
line to the confluence of the Ohine Mata
Creek, by the channel of that creek to the
Eastern boundary of the Mahe Block, by the
Eastern boundary of the Mahe and Mata
Blocks; on the South by the Southern
boundary of the Mata Block and a line bear-
ing due West to the Western boundary of
the Ruarangi Block; on the West by that
boundary to the Tauraroa River, and by the
Parish boundary of Maungakaramea to the
Southern boundary of the Maungatapere
Block.
Waipu District.
Bounded on the North by Wangarei Har-
bour from Limestone Island to the sea; on
the East by the sea from Marsden to the
Bream Tail; on the South by a line along
the range from Bream Tail to the Western
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🏛️ Proclamation dividing territory into four Marriage Districts under the Marriage Act
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 November 1861
Proclamation, Marriage Act, District division, Boundaries, Wangarei District, Waipu District, Mangapai District
- Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand