✨ Proclamations, District Constitution
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1864.
A PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander 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.
WHEREAS by the "Definition of Districts
Act, 1858," the Governor is em-
powered from time to time by Proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the
Colony into Counties, Hundreds, Parishes, or
such other divisions as he may deem expe-
dient, which shall have such limits, and shall
bear and be known by such names or desig-
nations as in and by the said Proclamation
constituting the same shall be prescribed.
Now, I, the Governor of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the territory
hereinafter described or referred to shall be,
and the same is hereby constituted a Village,
that is to say, All that territory in the Pro-
vince of Southland, containing by admeasure-
ment 499 (Four hundred and ninety-nine)
acres, 2 (Two) roods, and 25 (Twenty-five)
perches, more or less, bounded on the North
and East by the Ocean and Jacob's River
Estuary, on the South and East by the South
Eastern Boundary of Section 3, Block 11,
Jacob's River Hundred, on the South and
West by the South Western Boundary of
Sections 3 and 13, Block 11, and 3, 4, 5, 6,
and 7, Block 1, Jacob's River Hundred, and
on the North-West by the North-Western
Boundary of Section 7, Block 1, Jacob's River
Hundred, containing 499 (Four hundred and ninety-nine) acres, 2 (Two) roods, and 25
(Twenty-five) perches, more or less:
And I further proclaim and declare that
the said Village shall bear and be known by
the name or designation of the Village of
South Riverton,
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
this twenty-fifth day of February,
in the year of Our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-
four.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.
A PROCLAMATION,
Abolishing Districts constituted under the
"Districts Courts Acts, 1858."
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander 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 the "Districts Courts Act
1858," it is provided that there shall
be within the Colony Courts of Record pos-
sessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be
called District Courts, and the Governor is
empowered from time to time as he shall
think fit by Proclamation in the New Zea-
land Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or any part thereof, Districts within
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🏛️ Proclamation Constituting the Village of South Riverton
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 February 1864
Proclamation, Village constitution, Southland, Jacob's River Hundred, Land boundaries
- Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- William Fox
⚖️ Proclamation Abolishing Districts constituted under the Districts Courts Acts, 1858
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementProclamation, District Courts Act 1858, Abolishing districts, Jurisdiction
- Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief