✨ Proclamation of District Boundaries
whereof were therein set forth, which said proclama-
tions came into operation and took effect on the
fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said proclamations as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district:
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor 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 proclamations,
so far as relates to the Thames 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 two
districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be
as follows:—
COROMANDEL DISTRICT.
Bounded on the South by the Waikawau River
and by a straight line running in an easterly direction
from its source to the mouth of the Oyster River of
Mercury Bay; on the West, North, and East by the
sea, including the Great Mercury Island and all the
adjacent islands on the coast.
SHORTLAND DISTRICT.
Bounded on the North by the Waikawau River
from the sea to its source, thence by a straight line
extending in an easterly direction to the mouth of the
Oyster River of Mercury Bay; on the North-east by
Mercury Bay; on the East by the sea; on the South-
east by the Wangamata Harbour and by a straight
line extending from the South head of Wangamata
Harbour to the summit of Te Aroha, and thence by a
straight line to Matamata; on the South by a straight
line from Matamata to the junction of the Waitaruru
Creek with the Piako River, on the West by the
Piako River, and on the North-west by the Frith
of the Thames.
And I do declare that this proclamation shall come
into operation and take effect on the first day of
September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this sixth
day of August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
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.
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Revocation of Thames District Proclamations and Division into Coromandel and Shortland Districts
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration6 August 1868
Proclamation, Marriage Act Amendment Act 1858, District division, Coromandel District, Shortland District, Boundary definition
- Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford
- G. F. Bowen, Governor