✨ Water Race Land & Wards




1430
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 1 acre and 38 perches or thereby,
and having a length of 4124 links or thereby, com-
mencing at peg figured 4 on the existing race known
as Branch Race No. 5 herein above mentioned, and
ending at peg figured 45 on same, having a width of
20 feet throughout. Bounded to the South-west by
a line 5 feet distant from south-western side of
said existing Branch Race No. 5 as constructed,
and generally parallel to same; and bounded to the
North-east by a line 5 feet distant from north-eastern
side of said existing Branch Race No. 5 as con-
structed, and generally parallel to same.

Branch Race No. 6.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 rood 23 perches or thereby, and
having a length of 1704 links or thereby, commencing
at peg figured 182 on the existing Kumara Water-
race herein above mentioned, being also peg figured
0 on existing race known as Branch Race No. 6,
thence following the said Branch Race No. 6 and
ending at peg figured 17 on same, having a width
of 15 feet throughout. Bounded to the South-west
by a line 5 feet distant from south-western side of
said existing Branch Race No. 6 as constructed,
and generally parallel to same; and bounded to the
North-east by a line 5 feet distant from north-eastern
side of said existing Branch Race No. 6 as con-
structed, and generally parallel to same.

Branch Race No. 7.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 15 perches or thereby, and having a
length of 415 links or thereby, commencing at peg
figured 138 on the existing Kumara Water-race,
herein above mentioned, being also peg figured $\frac{138}{A}$
on existing race known as Branch Race No 7, thence
following the said Branch Race No. 7 and ending
at peg figured $\frac{1+2}{2}$ on same, having a width of 15
feet throughout. Bounded to the South-west by a
line 5 feet distant from south-western side of said
existing Branch Race No. 7 as constructed, and
generally parallel to same; and bounded to the North-
east by a line 5 feet distant from north-eastern side
of said existing Branch Race No. 7 as constructed,
and generally parallel to same.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 33 perches or thereby,
and having a length of 1981 links or thereby, com-
mencing at peg figured $\frac{1+2}{24}$ on the existing race
known as Branch Race No. 7 herein above men-
tioned, and ending at peg figured $\frac{102}{24}$ on same,
having a width of 200 links throughout. Bounded
to the South-west by a line 100 links distant from
the centre of the said water-race as constructed, and
generally parallel to same; and bounded to the
North-east by a line 200 links distant from the said
south-western boundary, and generally parallel to
same.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 17 perches or thereby, and having a
length of 462 links or thereby, commencing at peg
figured $\frac{102}{29}$ on the existing race known as Branch
Race No. 7 herein above mentioned, and ending at
peg figured on same, having a width of 15
feet throughout. Bounded to the West by a line 5
feet distant from western side of said existing Branch
Race No. 7 as constructed, and generally parallel to
same; and bounded to the East by a line 5 feet
distant from eastern side of said existing Branch
Race No. 7 as constructed, and generally parallel to
same.

Branch Race No. 8.
All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 2 roods 27 perches or thereby, and
having a length of 2879 links or thereby, commencing
at peg figured $\frac{187}{29}$ on the existing race known as
Branch Race No. 7 herein above mentioned, being
also peg figured 0 on existing race known as Branch
Race No. 8, thence following the said Branch Race No.
8 and ending at peg figured 29 on same, having a width
of 15 feet throughout. Bounded to the South-west by
a line 5 feet distant from south-western side of said
existing Branch Race No. 8 as constructed, and
generally parallel to same; and bounded to the
North-east by a line 5 feet distant from north-eastern
side of said existing Branch Race No. 8 as con-
structed, and generally parallel to same.

Branch Race No. 9.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admea-
surement 18 perches or thereby, and having a length
of 483 links or thereby, commencing at peg figured
$\frac{132}{A}$ on the existing race known as Branch Race
No. 7 herein above mentioned, being also peg figured 0
on existing race known as Branch Race No. 9, thence
following the said Branch Race No. 9 and ending
at peg figured 5 on same, and having a width of 15 feet
throughout. Bounded to the North-west by a line 5
feet distant from north-western side of said existing
Branch Race No. 9, as constructed, and generally
parallel to same; and bounded to the South-east by a
line 5 feet distant from south-eastern side of said
existing Branch Race No. 9 as constructed, and
generally parallel to same.

The pieces or parcels of land herein described
being delineated upon the plan by dotted green lines
and green shading, marked P.W.D. 6485, deposited
in the office of the Warden, at Kumara, in the Pro-
vincial District of Westland.

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
seventeenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Division of Borough of Auckland into Wards, under
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," section twenty-one, it is enacted that,
if not less than one-fourth of the burgesses of a
borough petition the Governor, praying him to divide
such borough into wards, the Governor may, by
Proclamation, divide such borough into not less than
three nor more than six wards, and shall in such
Proclamation assign such names and boundaries to
each ward as he thinks fit: And whereas not less



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1878, No 102





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πŸ—ΊοΈ Land Survey for Kumara Water-race Branch Races (continued from previous page)

πŸ—ΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey
17 October 1878
Water-race, Land description, Survey, Kumara, Westland, Proclamation, Branch Race
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • J. Macandrew

🏘️ Proclamation Dividing Auckland Borough into Wards

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Proclamation, Auckland, Wards, Municipal Corporations Act, Local Government
  • NORMANBY, Governor