✨ Orders in Council & Proclamations




  1. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
    district were reserved and taken for the purposes of
    settlement, and declared to be subject to the provi-
    sions of the said Act from the day of the date of such
    Order.

And whereas the boundaries of the said Bay of
Plenty District, as specified in the Schedule to the said
Order, were by mistake incorrectly stated; and it is
expedient that the boundaries of the said district
should be so amended and varied as to include the
district intended to be included in the Order in
Council of the seventeenth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power vested in him by the said Act,
doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand,
declare that the boundaries of the said Bay of Plenty
District shall be the boundaries described in the
Schedule hereto, instead of the boundaries described
in the Schedule to the said Order in Council, and
that from the day of the date hereof all the district
the boundaries whereof are described in the Schedule
hereto shall be a district within the provisions of
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and shall
be designated by the name of the Bay of Plenty
District, and doth hereby reserve and take the lands
within the said district, as defined by this Order, for
the purposes of settlements, and doth hereby declare
that all such lands are required for the purposes of
the said Act, and are subject to the provisions thereof
from the day of the date hereof.

SCHEDULE.
Bay of Plenty District.

All that land bounded by a line commencing at the
mouth of the Waitahanui River, Bay of Plenty, and
running due south for a distance of twenty miles,
thence to the summit of (Mount Edgecombe)
Putanaki, thence by a straight line in an easterly
direction to a point eleven miles due south from the
entrance to the Ohiwa Harbour, thence by a line
running due east for twenty miles, thence by a line
to the mouth of the Aparapara River, and thence
following the coast line to the point of commencement
at Waitahanui.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of September, 1866.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," it
is amongst other things enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to
time, to appoint Wardens as Judges of Wardens'
Courts for any gold field, or for any part thereof, for
the administration of justice therein, with power to
act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such
manner and to exercise all or any of the powers
thereinafter mentioned, as the Governor shall think
fit to direct:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint the
person undermentioned, that is to sayβ€”

HUGH JONES, Esq.,
to be a Warden and Judge of all Wardens' Courts
now constituted or hereafter to be constituted within
the South-west gold fields of the Province of Nelson,
with power to him to act alone or with Assessors or

Juries, and to exercise all or any of the powers sub-
sisting and mentioned in the twentieth, twenty-first,
twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-
fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth,
twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-fourth, and fifty-seventh
sections of "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," and all
other powers, duties, and authorities by "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863," or "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," vested in or
imposed on Judges of Wardens' Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of September, 1866.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that the
powers conferred on Judges of District Courts in and
by the twenty-seventh section of "The District
Courts Act, 1858," shall be exercised only within
such districts as shall from time to time be named by
the Governor by Order in Council published in the
New Zealand Gazette as districts within which such
powers may be exercised:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power and authority so vested in
him as aforesaid, doth by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, name and appoint

THE DISTRICT OF MARLBOROUGH,
as a district within which the Judge of the District
Court of Marlborough may exercise the powers con-
ferred by the twenty-seventh section of "The District
Courts Act, 1858." FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1866.

THE following Proclamation issued by His Honor
the Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, is published
for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor DONALD MCLEAN, Esq., Superin-
tendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, in the
Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "Protection of Certain
Animals Act, 1865," it is provided that the Governor
may by Order in Council under his hand from time
to time delegate to any Superintendent all or any of
the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor
in Council, by the aforesaid Act, subject to such
regulations as he may think fit, and may from time to
time rescind such delegation; and whereas by an
Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of
August, 1866, the Governor hath delegated to me,
Donald McLean, as Superintendent of the Province
of Hawke's Bay, all the powers vested in him, the
said Governor, as Governor, or as Governor in
Council, by the aforesaid Act, so long as I, the said
Donald McLean, shall continue and remain Superin-
tendent of the said Province, and no longer:

Now therefore I, the said Donald McLean, Super-
intendent as aforesaid, by virtue of the powers vested
in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare



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πŸ—ΊοΈ Amendment of Bay of Plenty District Boundaries (continued from previous page)

πŸ—ΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey
1 September 1866
Bay of Plenty District, Boundary amendment, New Zealand Settlements Act 1863, Land reservation
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
  • G. Grey, Governor

βš–οΈ Appointment of Warden for South-west Gold Fields, Nelson

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
1 September 1866
Gold Fields Act 1862, Warden appointment, Judge, South-west gold fields, Nelson
  • Hugh Jones (Esquire), Appointed Warden and Judge

  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
  • G. Grey, Governor

βš–οΈ Naming Marlborough as District for District Court Powers

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
5 September 1866
District Courts Amendment Act 1865, Marlborough, District Court powers
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

🌾 Delegation of Animal Protection Powers to Hawke's Bay Superintendent

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
7 September 1866
Proclamation, Hawke's Bay, Protection of Certain Animals Act 1865, Delegation of power
  • Donald McLean (Esquire), Superintendent of Hawke's Bay

  • E. W. Stafford
  • Donald McLean, Superintendent