✨ District Court Boundary Proclamation
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1866.
G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing
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 Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within
which such Courts shall be respectively held, and
such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof
to define or alter, and also to declare by what local
name such Courts shall be designated :
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the
aforesaid power and authority, do hereby constitute
and proclaim the two several districts of the said
Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be
districts within which District Courts shall be held
under the said Act, and "The District Courts
Amendment Act, 1865."
And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said
Courts shall be respectively designated by the names
which are hereunder specified, and set above the
description of such districts, that is to say—
Designation of Court,—
The District Court of Westland, North.
Description of District,—
The Westland North District shall comprise so
much and such part of the Province of Nelson as is
bounded by a straight line from the mouth of the
River Mackay to the summit of Mount Arthur,
thence by a straight line to the junction of the River
Gowan (otherwise called Rotoroa) with the River
Buller, thence by a straight line to the summit of
Mount Princess, thence by a straight line to the
saddle between the Huranui River and the Turamahau
River, thence by the southern boundary of the Pro-
vince of Nelson to the West Coast, thence north-
wards by the sea (including the adjacent islands) to
the mouth of the said River Mackay.
Designation of Court,—
The District Court of Westland, South.
Description of District,—
The Westland South District shall comprise so
much and such part of the Province of Canterbury
as is bounded by the sea from the mouth of the
River Awarua to the mouth of the River Grey,
thence by the northern boundary of the said Pro-
vince of Canterbury to the saddle, thence south-
wards by the watershed between the East and
West Coast of the said Province of Canterbury to
the southern boundary of the said Province of
Canterbury, thence westwards by the said boundary
to the mouth of the said River Awarua.
Given under the hand of 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, at the
Government House at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this twentieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1866, No 6
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⚖️ Proclamation Constituting District Courts for Westland North and South
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement20 January 1866
Proclamation, District Courts, Westland, Boundaries, Nelson Province, Canterbury Province
- G. Grey, Governor
- 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
- E. W. Stafford