✨ Water Race Proclamations




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 597

refer to maps, plans, or drawings to be deposited in
the office of the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of
the Supreme Court in the Province in which such
waterworks are proposed to be constructed, and
any maps, plans, or drawings so referred to shall be
deemed to form part of such Proclamation; and
upon the publication of such Proclamation, the pro-
visions and regulations contained in the Eighth Part
of the said Act shall be applicable to the lands and
streams and the waterworks to which the Proclama-
tion relates And it is also thereby enacted that, for
the purposes of the Third Part of the said Act, the
Governor or any person authorized by him, subject
to the restrictions and provisions therein contained,
may exercise any of the following powers (that is to
say),β€”He may enter upon any lands and take the
levels of the same, and set out such parts thereof as
he thinks necessary, and dig and break up the soil of
such lands, and remove or use all earth, stones, trees,
or other things dug or gotten out of the same: He
may enter upon, take and hold such land as shall
from time to time be specified in any Proclamation
made under the Third Part of the said Act for the
construction or improvement of any works authorized
in and by the Third Part of the said Act: He may
from time to time make, maintain, or alter such
reservoirs, dams, races, aqueducts, waterworks, drains,
pipes, culverts, engines and other works, and erect
such buildings in or upon the lands and streams
authorized to be taken as he thinks fit: He may
from time to time divert and impound the water from
any such streams as shall be specified in any such
Proclamation, or alter the course of any such
streams:

And whereas by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1873," it is enacted that it shall be suffi-
cient, in any Proclamation under and for the pur-
poses of Part III. of the said Act, to describe in
general language the waterworks to be constructed
and the lands and streams of water proposed to be
taken; and it shall not be necessary that such water-
works, lands, and streams shall have been surveyed,
or be specified by name or boundaries or area:

And whereas by a Resolution passed by the Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Auckland on the
fourth day of November, 1870, and assented to and
concurred in by the Superintendent of the said
Province, the Governor was requested to construct
the works for the supply of water to the Hauraki
Gold Field (the same being a duly proclaimed gold
field): And whereas, in accordance with the terms
of the said Resolution, the Governor has determined
to construct and maintain certain works for supplying
water to the said gold field:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the powers and authori-
ties conferred on me by the hereinbefore recited
Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling
me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim, declare, and
specify that the waterworks proposed to be con-
structed under the said Acts are a water race for
the purpose of supplying water from the Kauae-
ranga River and its tributaries, and other streams,
as mentioned in the Schedule hereto, to a portion of
the Hauraki Gold Field aforesaid at and near to the
Town of Grahamstown, in the said gold field, together
with all such drains, races, aqueducts, pipes, culverts,
buildings, and other works that may be requisite or
necessary for the said water race; and I do hereby
also proclaim and declare that the lands and streams
of water proposed to be taken for the purpose of
such waterworks are described in general language
in the Schedule hereto. And in pursuance and
exercise of all powers and authorities conferred
on me in that behalf, I do hereby fix the point of
commencement of the said water race to be a point
on the Kauaeranga River near the Tetahunga Creek,
and the point of termination thereof to be a point
in the Caledonian Gold Mining Lease, Grahamstown.

SCHEDULE.

Lands and Streams of Water proposed to be taken for
the purpose of constructing Water Race from Kauaeranga River to Grahamstown, Province of Auckland.

THE intended water race will commence at a point
on the Kauaeranga River near the Tetahunga Creek,
thence through Gold Fields lands, Native reserve,
Mission property, Parawai District, Shortland Town-
ship, Grahamstown Township, and will terminate at
a point in the Caledonian Gold Mining Lease,
Grahamstown, as the centre line thereof is pegged
on the ground, and as the limits, description, and
line thereof are set forth in the plan, and which
plan is authenticated, for the purposes of the Pro-
clamation, by the signature of the Honorable Edward
Richardson, Minister for Public Works, and is de-
posited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Auckland; or within the limits of deviation
set forth on the said plan by dotted blue lines, being
not more than 110 yards on either side of the said
line, except where otherwise delineated on the said
plan, and passing through or over the several sections
of land, roads, reserves, rivers, places, and water-
courses shown on the said plan.

The streams of water intended to be taken for the
purpose of supplying the said race are the Kauae-
ranga River and its tributaries, and all other streams
intervening between the point of commencement and
the point of termination.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this seven-
teenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Limits and Description of Waterworks for supplying
Water to a portion of the Nelson South-West Gold
Fields.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," it is enacted that the
Governor may, on the request of the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of any Province in which any
proclaimed gold field is, cause to be constructed,
completed, extended, repaired, or maintained, such
works for supplying water to such gold fields as he
may from time to time think fit, and may enter into
contracts for the construction, completion, or exten-
sion of such works, or for purchasing or otherwise
acquiring any drains, dams, water races, reservoirs,
or other works already constructed, which may
appear to the Governor suitable for any such purpose
aforesaid: And it is also thereby enacted that,
whenever the Governor shall determine to construct
any waterworks under the powers conferred by
Part III. of the said Act, he shall from time to time,
by Proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, declare and specify the waterworks which
he proposes to construct, and the lands and streams



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🌾 Proclamation for Water Race Construction for Hauraki Gold Field (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
17 October 1873
Water race, Hauraki Gold Field, Kauaeranga River, Grahamstown, Auckland Province, Land acquisition, Public Works Act 1873
  • Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
  • Edward Richardson

🌾 Proclamation regarding Waterworks for Nelson South-West Gold Fields

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Waterworks, Proclamation, Nelson South-West Gold Fields, Immigration and Public Works Act 1870
  • James Fergusson, Governor