✨ Water-race Proclamation and Erratum
Numb. 18. 303
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881.
Declaring certain Lands to be a Part of the Waimea 320° 58', 7969 links; thence 112° 20', 1500 links;
Water-race Extension to Kumara. thence 112° 41', 2001 links; thence 116° 50', 3601
(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor. links; thence 340° 9', 5834 links; thence 351° 42',
A PROCLAMATION.
2290 links; thence 17° 36', 2630 links; thence 348°
WHEREAS, for the purpose of supplying with 10', 8540 links; thence 16° 18', 5040 links; thence
water the Kumara Gold Field, being a portion 8° 30', 3870 links; thence 353° 52', 2600 links; thence
of the proclaimed gold field known as the Westland 301° 17', 2071 links; thence 251° 30', 1150 links, to
Gold Field, it is proposed to construct reservoirs in the starting point shown on map herewith: save and
the Kapitea Valley in connection with the Kumara excepting Section 1446, Block XVI., Waimea Survey
Water-race; and a plan of the said water-race and District, as delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D.
reservoirs has been deposited in the Warden's Court 8093, and deposited in the Warden's Court at Kumara,
of the district wherein such reservoirs are situate: in the Provincial District of Westland. The streams
Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the of water intended to be taken for the purpose of
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu- supplying the said water-race are the Kapitea Creek,
ance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested and all its tributaries from its and their sources down-
in me by "The Public Works Act, 1876," do hereby wards to peg figured O on the centre line of the
proclaim and declare that the lands described in the Kumara Water-race; save and except so much of the
Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby said lands and streams of water as are already taken
declared to be a water-race for the purposes of the for the purpose of the Kumara-Kawhaka Water-
said Act, and shall form part of the water-race known race, by Proclamation dated the 17th October, 1878,
as the Waimea Water-race Extension to Kumara; and published in Gazette No. 102, of the 24th October,
and I declare that the several streams specified in the 1878.
said Schedule are taken for the purpose of supplying
such water-race.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece or parcel of land situated within the
Survey Districts of Kanieri aud Waimea, in the Pro-
vincial District of Westland, containing by admea-
surement 1,737 acres 1 rood 12 perches. Bounded
by lines as follows, that is to say, commencing at a
peg figured O on the centre line of the Kumara Race;
thence 251° 30', 2240 links; thence 172° 30', 3640
links; thence 186° 30', 5300 links; thence 193° 40',
3580 links; thence 255°, 2660 links; thence 203° 30',
3200 links; thence 192° 6', 2080 links; thence 185°
30', 1750 links; thence 152° 24', 1080 links; thence
Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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
fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.
R. OLIVER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 16, of the 3rd March, 1881, page 267, in warrant making Rules of Practice and
Procedure in Resident Magistrates' Courts, for "the one hundred and thirtieth section," read "the one hundred and
thirty-sixth section."
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