Numb. 66. 1637

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1886.

Proclamation abolishing existing Mining Districts and constituting Mining Districts under "The Mining Act, 1886."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by "The Mining Act, 1886" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the colony to be a 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 portions of the colony described in the Schedule hereto should be constituted mining districts under the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby constitute the portions of the colony particularly described in the Schedule hereto to be mining districts under the said Act, with the boundaries in the said Schedule mentioned; and do declare that such districts shall be designated by the names respectively set over the descriptions of the said districts in the said Schedule; and in exercise of the power and authority aforesaid, I do hereby abolish all mining districts heretofore existing in any portion of the colony hereby constituted a district or districts under the said Act:

And I hereby further declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from Saturday, the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH ISLAND.

HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Auckland bounded towards the North-east generally by the ocean, from Cape Colville to Te Harakeke; thence towards the South-east by the summit of the water-shed between Kennedy's Bay and Whangapoua Harbour to the north-west corner of Te Ranga Block; thence towards the East by the summit of the watershed between the East Coast and the Hauraki Gulf, and the East Coast and the Firth of Thames to a point due west of the southernmost corner of the Taranoho Block; thence again towards the North by a straight line drawn through the said corner to the Rangihau Stream; thence towards the North-west by the said Rangihau Stream to Whitianga Harbour; thence by that harbour to Buffalo Bay; thence again towards the North by Mercury Bay; thence again towards the north-east by the ocean to Nga-kuri-a-whare; thence again towards the South-east by the confiscation boundary-line to a point due north of the north-west corner of Section No. 15, Block IV., Katikati Survey District; thence again towards the East by a straight line to that corner; thence by the said Section No. 15 to its south-western corner; thence by a straight line to the north-west corner of Section No. 16, Block IV. Katikati Survey District; thence by the said Section No. 16, and Sections No. 65 and 53A, Block VIII., Katikati Survey District; towards the South by a Native reserve; again towards the East by the said Native reserve and a timber reserve to the southernmost corner of the latter; thence again towards the South by a straight line to the north-west corner of Section No. 63 of the said Block VIII.; thence again towards the South-east and North-east by the said Section No. 63 and Sections Nos. 62 and 70 of Block VIII. aforesaid to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned section; thence again towards the South by a road to the south-western corner of a timber reserve; thence by a straight line in the direction of the south-east corner of Section No. 27, Block XII., Aroha Survey District, as far as the Waihou or Thames River; thence towards the South-west by that river to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Te Ruakaka Block, Block IX., Aroha Survey District; thence again towards the North-west, South west, and South by the said Ruakaka Block and its northern boundary-line produced across a road to the said Waihou or Thames River; thence again towards the South-west by that river to the Patuwaho Block; thence again towards the North-west by the said Patuwaho Block to its south-eastern corner; thence towards the West by the Patuwaho Block aforesaid, Te Maire, Waitoki, and Pukemokemoke Blocks; again towards the South-west by the last-mentioned block to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 32, Block I., Aroha Survey District (agricultural lease); thence again towards the North-west by a straight line to, and thence by the north-western boundary-line of, the said Section No. 32, and the north-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 2 and 67 (agricultural leases) to the northernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a straight line to, and thence by