✨ Electoral District Boundaries
JULY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 873
boundary of Section No. 7, Block VIII., Table Hill Survey District; again towards the North-west by that road and its continuation through Block IX., Table Hill Survey District, through Block IX., Waipori Survey District, through Block X., Table Hill Survey District, through Block IX., Clarendon Survey District, and through Block X., Waipori Survey District, to the north-western boundary-line of the West Taieri Hundred; and thence by that boundary-line to the Waipori River.
TUAPEKA.
This district is bounded towards the North-east by the Mount Ida Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East by the Taieri Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the South-east and South-west by the Bruce Electoral District, hereinbefore described, to the northernmost corner of Section No. 26, Block IX., Waitahuna East Survey District; thence by the said Block IX. to the Waitahuna River; again towards the South-east by the Waitahuna River to the Clutha River; again towards the South-west by the Clutha River to Block IX., Beaumont Survey District; towards the North by the said Block IX., and by Blocks I., II., and VIII. of Beaumont Survey District to the Tuapeka River; towards the West by the Tuapeka River to its source; thence by a right line to Lammerlaw.
DUNSTAN.
This district is bounded towards the North-west generally by a right line from Lorn Peak to Cairnmuir Hill; thence by a right line to the Clutha River at Leaning Rock Creek; thence by Leaning Rock Creek to its source; thence by a right line to Leaning Rock Hill, and by the summit of the Dunstan Mountains; towards the East generally by the Electoral Districts of Mount Ida and Tuapeka, hereinbefore described, to the mouth of the Tuapeka River; towards the South-east by a right line thence to the nearest bend of the Pomahaka River, and by that river to its source; thence by the summit of the Umbrella Mountains to a point due east of Rocky Mount; again towards the South by a right line to the said Rocky Mount, and by a right line thence to Lorn Peak.
CLUTHA.
This district is bounded towards the North by the Dunstan Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the North-east generally by the Electoral Districts of Tuapeka and Bruce, hereinbefore described; towards the South-east by the ocean to Chasland’s Mistake; towards the West generally by a right line to Black Horn; thence by the summit of the watershed over Mount Alfred, Mouseback, and the Chimney to Catlin’s Cone; thence by a right line to the source of the Waipahi River, and by that river to its confluence with the Pomahaka River.
WAKAIA.
This district is bounded towards the North by the Dunstan Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East by that electoral district and the Clutha Electoral District to the main road from Mataura to Dunedin; towards the South by that road to the Town District of Mataura; thence by the said Town District of Mataura to the Waimumu Stream, by the said Waimumu Stream to a point due west of the mouth of the Charlton Stream; thence by a line due west to the Hedgehope Stream; towards the West generally by that stream to its source, by a right line thence to Ship Cone; thence by a line due north to the Otamita Stream, by that stream to the Mataura River, and by the said Mataura River; towards the North-west generally by the summit of the watershed between the said Mataura River and the Nokomai River to Lorn Peak.
MATAURA.
This district is bounded towards the North-east by the Wakaia Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East generally by the Clutha Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the South by the ocean to Block XIV., Campbelltown Hundred; towards the West by that block and Blocks XI. and VIII., Campbelltown Hundred; again towards the South by the last-mentioned block; again towards the West by Blocks XXII. and II., Invercargill Hundred, to the Waihopai River; again towards the South by that river to Section No. 7, Block IV., Invercargill Hundred; again towards the West by the said Section No. 7, Sections No. 2 of 20, 33A, and 33 of the said Block IV. to the road forming part of the eastern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section; thence by that road continued northerly to the Makarewa River; towards the North-west by the Makarewa River to its confluence with the Hedgehope Stream; and thence by that stream.
HOKONUI.
This district is bounded towards the North-east generally by the summit of the watershed from Hummock Peak to Eyre Peak; thence by a right line to the source of the Mataura River, by that river and the Wakaia Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the South-east by the Mataura Electoral District, hereinbefore described, and the Makarewa River, the New River, and the New River Estuary; towards the South-west by the ocean; and towards the West generally by the County of Wallace to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 186, Taringatura Survey District; thence by that section and Sections Nos. 280, 281, 282, 283, the northern boundary-line of Section No. 209, and the western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 180 and 46 to Section No. 181; thence by Section No. 181 and Sections Nos. 359, 189, 49, 45, 174, and 129, all of Taringatura Survey District, to the Oreti River; thence by that river to a point due west of Hummock Peak; and towards the North by a right line to Hummock Peak.
WAKATIPU.
This district is bounded towards the North-east and North-west by the Hokitika Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East by the Waitaki Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the South-east by the Electoral Districts of Mount Ida, Dunstan, and Wakaia, hereinbefore described; towards the South-west generally by the Hokonui Electoral District, hereinbefore described, to Hummock Peak; thence by the summit of the leading ridge to the Thomson Mountains, and by the summit of the said mountains to Round Peaks; thence by a right line to Mount Eglington; thence by the summit of the Earl Mountains, and by a right line over the Castle to Cloudy Pass in Bligh Sound; and towards the North-west by the ocean.
WALLACE.
This district is bounded towards the North-east generally by the Wakatipu Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East by the Hokonui Electoral District, hereinbefore described; and towards the South and West by the Ocean.
INVERCARGILL.
This district is bounded towards the North-west by the Waihopai River; towards the East and North by the eastern and northern boundary-lines of the Borough of Gladstone; again towards the East by the Borough of North Invercargill to the Borough of East Invercargill; again towards the North-west by the Borough of North Invercargill; towards the North-east and South-east by the north-eastern and south-eastern boundary-lines of the said Borough of East Invercargill to the Borough of Invercargill; towards the East and South by the eastern and southern boundary-lines of the said Borough of Invercargill; and towards the West by the New River Estuary.
AWARUA.
This district is bounded towards the North-west by the Hokonui Electoral District, hereinbefore described; towards the East by the Mataura Electoral District, hereinbefore described; and towards the South and South-west by the ocean: exclusive of the Invercargill Electoral District, hereinbefore described, and including Stewart and adjacent islands.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.
P. A. BUCKLEY.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority: GEORGE DIDS BURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 July 1887
Electoral Districts, Boundaries, Proclamation, Representation Act 1887
- Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
- P. A. Buckley
NZ Gazette 1887, No 41