Numb. 110. 1669

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1880.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1880.

Proclamation of Aroha Gold-Mining District under "The Gold-Mining Districts Act, 1873."

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Gold-Mining Districts Act, 1873," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the General Government Gazette, to constitute and appoint any district to be a gold-mining district under the said Act, to assign boundaries to such district, to enlarge, contract, or otherwise alter such boundaries, and to declare by what local name every such district shall be designated:

And whereas it is expedient that the district described in the Schedule hereto should be constituted a gold-mining district under the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, and Administrator of the Government thereof, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by the said Act, do hereby constitute the district particularly described in the Schedule hereto to be a gold-mining district under the said Act and its amending Act, with the boundaries in the said Schedule mentioned; and do declare that such district shall be designated by the name of "The Aroha Gold-Mining District."

This Proclamation to take effect on and from Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November instant, at nine o'clock in the morning.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block of land in the Provincial District of Auckland comprised within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point on the Waihou River near the mouth of the Mangaiti Stream; thence towards the North by lines forming the northern boundary of the Aroha Block to the Waitawhata River; thence by that river and by the confiscation boundary in the direction of Ngakuriawhare; towards the East by a line drawn due south to the north-west corner of Section 15, Block IV., Katikati Survey District, by the western boundary of that section; again by a line, by the western boundary of Section 16, Block IV. aforesaid, by the western boundaries of Sections 65 and 53A, Block VIII., Katikati Survey District; again by a line and by the western boundaries of Sections 63, 62, and 70 of Block VIII. aforesaid; towards the South by a line being the production of the southern boundary of Block XII., Aroha Survey District, to its intersection with Section 70, Block VIII., Katikati, aforesaid; and towards the West by the Waihou or Thames River to the point of commencement: excluding therefrom the Ruakaka Block, containing 415 acres, and a reserve of 20 acres in Block IX., Aroha Survey District, known as the Hot Springs Reserve; as the same is delineated upon a plan deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.