✨ Land Reserves and Borough Proclamation




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Run 59, Class 3, for a distance of about eighty-four
(84) chains: as the same is delineated on the plans
deposited in the Provincial District Survey Office,
Christchurch.

All that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, containing by admeasurement two hundred
and ninety-seven (297) acres, more or less, being
Section numbered two thousand two hundred and
fifty-seven (2257) (in red). Bounded towards the
North-west by a road line for a distance of about
seventy (70) chains; towards the East by a road
line for a distance of about ninety-three (93) chains;
towards the South-east by Improvement Pre-emp-
tive Right M1 on Run 59, Class 3, for a distance
of about fourteen (14) chains; and towards the
South-west by Crown lands for a distance of about
seventy-three (73) chains, save and excepting Sec-
tion No. 1994 (in red), situate in the above-
described section: as the same is delineated on
the plans deposited in the Provincial District Sur-
vey Office, Christchurch.

All that area in the Provincial District of Can-
terbury, containing by admeasurement nineteen
hundred and thirty-five (1935) acres, more or less,
being Section numbered two thousand two hun-
dred and fifty-eight (2258) (in red). Bounded
towards the North-east by Improvement Pre-
emptive Rights I, J, K, L, and M on Run 59, Class
3, for a distance of about one hundred and forty-
five (145) chains; towards the North-west by Im-
provement Pre-emptive Rights E, F, G, and H on
said run for the distance of about one hundred
and thirty-two (132) chains; towards the East by
a road line for a distance of about forty-three
(43) chains; towards the South-east by Improve-
ment Pre-emptive Right L2 on the above-mentioned
run for a distance of about eighteen (18) chains;
towards the South by a road line for a distance of
about one hundred and twenty-four (124) chains;
and towards the South-west by Crown lands for a
distance of about eighty-one (81) chains, save and
excepting Improvement Pre-emptive Right I 3 on
Run 59, Class 3, situate in the above-described sec-
tion: as the same is delineated on the plans de-
posited in the Provincial District Survey Office,
Christchurch.

All that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, containing by admeasurement three hundred
and six (306) acres, more or less, being Section num-
bered two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine
(2259) (in red). Bounded towards the North by
a road line for a distance of about one hundred and
twenty-two (122) chains; towards the South-east by
Improvement Pre-emptive Rights L2, M2, and
N2 on Run 59, Class 3, for a distance of about sixty-
two (62) chains; and towards the South-west by
Crown lands for a distance of about one hundred
(100) chains: as the same is delineated on the
plans deposited in the Provincial District Survey
Office, Christchurch.

As an endowment for the maintenance of the
Medical Department or Faculty of the Canterbury
College.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; 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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.

J. T. FISHER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Hamilton a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," the Governor
is empowered, by Proclamation, to declare any district
in New Zealand to be a borough under the said Act
from and after a day to be named in such Proclama-
tion :

Now, therefore I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the Districts of Hamilton
East and West shall be and the same are hereby
constituted, as from the twenty-fifth day of De-
cember, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven, a borough under the said Act; and that the
name of such borough shall be the Borough of
Hamilton, and the boundaries of such borough shall
be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Auckland,
in the Colony of New Zealand, bounded towards
the North-east by the Waikato River, from a stream
which forms the south-eastern boundary of Allot-
ment No. 242, Parish of Pukete, to the south-eastern
boundary of Allotment No. 219, produced across the
river; towards the North-west by that line and
Allotments Nos. 219, 220, 223, 223A; towards the
North-east by Allotments Nos. 223A, a road line,
224, 225, 229, 230, 231, thence crossing a road one
hundred links wide and by Allotment No. 251, thence
by the north-eastern side of the road which forms
the south-western boundary of said last-mentioned
lot across a road and by Allotment No. 254, all in
the Parish of Kirikiriroa, to the Waikato River;
towards the South-east by the Waikato River afore-
said to the north-eastern boundary of Allotment No.
24, produced across the river; towards the South-
west by that line and by Allotment No. 24; towards
the East by Allotments Nos. 24 and 25; towards
the South across a road and by Allotment No. 26;
again towards the South and South-west by the
boundary line of the Town Belt from the north-
western angle of Allotment No. 26, last named, to
the south-eastern angle of Allotment No. 1, thence
by Allotments Nos. 1 and 2 to a stream, all in the
Parish of Te Papa; and towards the North-west by
the said stream to the Waikato River, being the
point of commencement: as the same is delineated
on the plan deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of



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πŸ—ΊοΈ Provisional Reserves for Educational Purposes in the Provincial District of Canterbury (continued from previous page)

πŸ—ΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey
22 December 1877
Section 2257, Section 2258, Section 2259, Canterbury, Endowment, Medical Department, Canterbury College
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby
  • J. T. Fisher

🏘️ Proclamation constituting the Borough of Hamilton

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
22 December 1877
Hamilton, Borough, Municipal Corporations Act 1876, Proclamation, Auckland
  • Normanby, Governor
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby