✨ Governor's Proclamation on Districts
Fumb. 17.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1863.
A PROCLAMATION
Appointing certain Districts under the Mar-
riage Act.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &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 Zealand
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 Sixth day of July,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine,
the Governor, in pursuance of the said recited
power and authority did amongst others
constitute a District for the purposes of the
said Act called the "Ahuriri District," the
boundaries whereof were therein set forth,
which said Proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the First day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty nine:
And whereas it is expedient to revoke so
much of the said Proclamation as relates to the
said District and to divide anew the territory
formerly comprised within such District:
Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Go-
vernor of the said Colony, in pursuance and
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
"Ahuriri District," and do proclaim and declare
that the territory formerly comprised within
such District shall be and is hereby divided for
the purposes of the said Act into Four Dis-
tricts, the names and boundaries whereof shall
be as follows :-
Mohaka District.
Bounded on the North by the Northern
boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay;
on the East by the Sea Coast to the Waikari
River; on the South following up the Waikari
to its source, following a straight line in a
North West direction to the North West corner
of the said Province.
Napier District.
Bounded on the North by the Southern
boundary of the Mohaka District; on the
East along the Sea Coast to the mouth of the
Manauarakau stream; South following that
stream to the Southern boundary of the Wai-
marama Native Block to the Makara stream,
following it to its junction with the Tuki-tuki
river, down that river to the South-western
boundary of the Te Mata Block, and following
the Ngaruroro to its source, and on the West
by the Ruahine Mountains.
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NZ Gazette 1863, No 17
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🏛️ Proclamation dividing Ahuriri District into four new Marriage Act Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration12 May 1863
Proclamation, Marriage Act, District division, Ahuriri, Mohaka, Napier, Boundaries
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief