New Zealand Gazette – 1881 – No. 69

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✨ Land Descriptions and Proclamations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

surveyed line, 5421 links, from Te Whakaumu to the Ruakaka Stream; towards the South by the Ruakaka Stream; and towards the West by the Mata River to the point of commencement.

TUAKAU-PIRAUAU No. 1.

All that parcel of land in the District of Poverty Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Tuakau-Pirauau No. 1, containing by admeasurement 5,865 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by the Tamata-o-te Huinga Block; towards the East by the Onetohunga Stream; towards the South by surveyed lines, 27702 links; towards the West by the surveyed line of Government road to Waiapu, to the point of commencement.

TUAKAU BLOCK.

All that parcel of land at Tokomaru, in the District of Poverty Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Tuakau, containing by admeasurement 8,815 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by the Mangatarata Stream, the Mangaroau Stream, the Uriwiri Stream, and the Tuakau-Pirauau No. 1 Block, 71079 links; towards the East by the Tokomaru Block, 19031 links; towards the South by the Tauwhareparae Block, the Waiau River, the Mangaehu Stream, the said Tauwhareparae Block, the Ngawakapatiki Stream, and by the last-mentioned block, 64585 links; and towards the West by the said Tauwhareparae Block and the Mata River, 12820 links.

HUIARUA No. 1.

All that parcel of land in the District of Poverty Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Huiarua No. 1, containing by admeasurement 7,750 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by the Huiarua Block; towards the East by the Mata River and by surveyed lines, 20198 links; towards the South by surveyed lines, 9527 links, 2016 links, 11594 links, 1281 links, 755 links, and 1068 links; towards the West by surveyed lines, 10795 links, 746 links, the Mata River, again by surveyed lines, 540 links and 7783 links, to the point of commencement.

TAUWHAREPARAE.

All that parcel of land in the Poverty Bay District, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Tauwhareparae, containing by admeasurement 44,150 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by the Mata River, Tauwhareparae No. 2 Block, and surveyed lines 6885 links, 405 links, 973 links, 897 links, 2019 links, and 150 links, the Mangaehu Stream, the Waiau River, and surveyed lines 3388 links, 2789 links, and 525 links; towards the East by surveyed lines 6050 links, 5727 links, 5820 links and the Mangaroa Stream and the Tauwhareparae No. 3 Block; towards the South by surveyed lines 7049 links, 9781 links, 1320 links, 228 links, 7061 links, 5731 links, 1730 links, 734 links, 235 links, 296 links, 344 links, 245 links, 145 links, 201 links, 416 links, 324 links, 698 links, 571 links, 4998 links, 1098 links, 14778 links, the Mangapanga Stream, the Kongapunaru Stream, again by surveyed lines 2360 links, 900 links, 22670 links, 4736 links, 55 links, 3397 links, 3245 links, 2569 links, 2422 links, 1335 links, 655 links, and 418 links; towards the West by surveyed lines, 3598 links, 6112 links, 2523 links, 276 links, 287 links, 307 links, 1442 links, 621 links, 2368 links, 688 links, 617 links, 322 links, 3052 links, 6943 links, 663 links, 1248 links, 575 links, 417 links, 410 links, 357 links, 128 links, 134 links, 438 links, 351 links, 254 links, 593 links, 177 links, 467 links, 386 links, 212 links, 607 links, 935 links, 250 links, 512 links, 1937 links, and 20918 links, to the point of commencement on the Mata River.

MANGATOKERAU.

All that parcel of land in the District of Poverty Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Mangatokerau, containing by admeasurement 5,456 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by surveyed lines, 5731 links, 7061 links, 228 links, 1320 links, 9781 links, 7049 links, 13281 links, 784 links, 1368 links, 707 links, 963 links, and 681 links; towards the East by the Mangatokerau No. 1 and No. 2 Blocks; towards the South by surveyed lines, 800 links, 906 links, 2182 links, 2309 links, 836 links, 382 links, 1101 links, 1249 links, 879 links, 1550 links, 2970 links, 646 links, 1596 links; towards the West by surveyed lines, 17640 links, 853 links, 4928 links, and 3499 links, to the point of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.

(l.s.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been purchased out of the sums authorized under “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” and Acts amending the same, to be issued and expended in the purchase of lands in the North Island of New Zealand, and it is expedient that the said lands should be declared to be waste lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, being satisfied that the lands described in the Schedule hereto are free from Native claims and all difficulties in connection therewith, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the seventeenth section of “The Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876,” and the twenty-eighth section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and all other authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare the said lands to be waste lands of the Crown, subject, except as in the first-mentioned Act provided, to be sold and dealt with according to the provisions of the laws regulating the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown in force in the Land Districts of Auckland and Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

TAHARUA SOUTH.

ALL that parcel of land in the District of Taupo, and partly in the Provincial District of Auckland, and partly in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by the name of Taharua South, containing by admeasurement 14,000 acres, more or less, namely, 4,200 acres in the Provincial District of Auckland, and 9,800 acres in the Provincial District of Wellington. Bounded towards the North by Taharua

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1881, No 69

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🗺️ Description of Wharehapua No. 3 land parcel in Poverty Bay (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Auckland, boundaries, Wharehapua

🗺️ Description of Tuakau-Pirauau No. 1 land parcel in Poverty Bay

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Auckland, boundaries, Tuakau-Pirauau

🗺️ Description of Tuakau land parcel in Tokomaru, Poverty Bay

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Tokomaru, boundaries, Tuakau

🗺️ Description of Huiarua No. 1 land parcel in Poverty Bay

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Auckland, boundaries, Huiarua

🗺️ Description of Tauwhareparae land parcel in Poverty Bay

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Auckland, boundaries, Tauwhareparae

🗺️ Description of Mangatokerau land parcel in Poverty Bay

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 August 1881
KeywordsLand parcel, Poverty Bay, Auckland, boundaries, Mangatokerau

🗺️ Proclamation declaring lands as Waste Lands of the Crown

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated24 August 1881
KeywordsWaste lands, Crown, Taharua South, Taupo, Auckland, Wellington
👩‍💼 Officials

Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Governor
WM. ROLLESTON

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