✨ Local Government Proclamations




JAN. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 5

hereto to be published in the Borough of Hawksbury
and in the said district that it was proposed to in-
corporate into the aforesaid borough the said district:
And whereas two months have elapsed since the
twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, above-mentioned, and no
petition has been presented to the Governor praying
that such district or part thereof should not be in-
corporated into the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the powers and authorities vested in me by the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and of
every other power and authority in that behalf me
enabling, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
district the boundaries whereof are specified in the
First Schedule hereto is hereby incorporated into the
Borough of Hawksbury, and added to the East
Ward of the said borough, and that the boundaries
of the said borough shall be those described in the
Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement 6 acres, more or less,
situate in the Hawksbury District, being part of
original Section No. 16, Block VI., on the map of the
said district, and a portion of the Main North Road,
as shown on a map of subdivision of part of Hawks-
bury Estate, deposited in the Deeds Registry Office,
Dunedin, bounded as follows: Commencing at a
point on the south side of the Main North Road dis-
tant 420 links in a south-westerly direction from the
most easterly corner of Section No. 16, Block VI.,
Hawksbury District aforesaid; thence towards the
South-east by the Borough of Hawksbury, 1180
links; towards the South-west by the said Main
Road and the other part of Section No. 16, Block
VI., Hawksbury District, 379 links; towards the
North-east by other part of Section No. 16, Block
VI. aforesaid, 598 links and 600 links; again towards
the South-west by other part of Section No. 16,
Block VI. aforesaid, 188 links; and towards the
North-east by Section No. 29 of subdivision of
Hawksbury Estate and the Main Road, 605 links, to
the starting point.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement 206 acres, more or
less, situate in the Hawksbury Survey District, and
bounded as follows: Towards the North-west by the
Main North Road, 3150 links; towards the South-
west across said road, 100 links, to the most southerly
corner of Section marked 1A on the map of the sub-
division of part of Section No. 16, Block VI., Hawks-
bury Survey District; thence by other part of Sec-
tion No. 16, Block VI., 279 links; again towards the
North-west by other part of said Section No. 16, 598
links; again towards the South-west by other part of
said Section No. 16, 188 links; again towards the
North-west by other part of said Section No. 16, 600
links; towards the North-east by Section No. 29 of
subdivision before mentioned, 505 links; towards
the South-east by the Main North Road, 230 links;
again towards the North-east across said road and by
the Government Township of Hawksbury, 8100 links;
towards the South by land sold to John Jones, 2000
links; and towards the West by the other part of
Section No. 15, Block VI., Hawksbury Survey District,
7500 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less;
as the same is delineated on the maps of the said
Township of West Hawksbury, deposited in the
office of the Registrar of Deeds, at Dunedin.

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
third day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Hawera a Borough under "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of "The Muni-
pal 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, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance and exercise of the power and authority vested
in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the district described in the Schedule hereto
shall be and the same is hereby constituted, as from
the second day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two, a borough under the said
Act, and that the name of such borough shall be the
Borough of Hawera, and that the boundaries of such
borough shall be those described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situated in the Provincial District of
Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 765 acres,
more or less. Bounded towards the North-east and
North by Glover Road to the most easterly corner of
Section No. 34; thence by a right line to the most
westerly corner of Section No. 185, by said section,
Sections Nos. 184, 186, 187, and a line; towards the
East by Section No. 544 to the Great South Road;
towards the South by that road to the Normanby
Road; and towards the West by the Normanby Road
to Glover Road: as the same is delineated on the
plans deposited in the Survey Office, New Plymouth.

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
third day of January, in the year of
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!



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🏘️ Proclamation Incorporating Land into the Borough of Hawksbury (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
3 January 1882
Borough incorporation, Hawksbury, Otago, Land boundaries, Municipal Corporations Act 1876
  • John Jones, Land sold to John Jones

  • Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Governor
  • Thomas Dick

🏘️ Proclamation Constituting Hawera a Borough

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
3 January 1882
Borough constitution, Hawera, Taranaki, Land boundaries, Municipal Corporations Act 1876
  • Arthur Gordon, Governor
  • Thomas Dick

🏘️ Incorporation of additional area into Borough of Hawksbury (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
3 January 1882
Borough incorporation, boundary extension, Otago, Hawksbury District, land description
  • John Jones, Boundary reference, land sold

  • Arthur Hamilton Gordon
  • Thomas Dick

🏘️ Proclamation constituting the Borough of Hawera

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
3 January 1882
Borough proclamation, Hawera, Taranaki, Municipal Corporations Act 1876
  • Arthur Hamilton Gordon
  • Thomas Dick