✨ Colonial Boundaries Proclamation
1308
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59
And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the self-governing Colony of New Zealand should be altered in such manner that the islands of the Cook Group, and such other islands in the Pacific within the limits herein-after described as may now or hereafter form part of His Majesty's dominions, shall become part of the said Colony of New Zealand:
And whereas the said Colony of New Zealand has, by resolutions of both Houses of its Legislature, consented to the alteration of the boundaries of the colony as hereinafter described:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by “The Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895,” or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: From and after a date to be appointed by the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by Proclamation under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, the boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand, as defined in an Act of the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to alter the Boundaries of New Zealand,” shall be extended so as to include all the islands and territories which now or may hereafter form part of His Majesty's dominions situate within the following boundary-line, namely: A line commencing at a point at the intersection of the twenty-third degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and fifty-sixth degree of longitude west of Greenwich, and proceeding due north to the point of intersection of the eighth degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth degree of longitude west of Greenwich; thence due west to the point of intersection of the eighth degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-sixty-seventh degree of longitude west of Greenwich; thence due south to the point of intersection of the seventeenth degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-sixty-seventh degree of longitude west of Greenwich; thence due west to the point of intersection of the seventeenth degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-seventieth degree of longitude west of Greenwich; thence due south to the point of intersection of the twenty-third degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-seventieth degree of longitude west of Greenwich; and thence due east to the starting-point and the intersection of the twenty-third degree of south latitude and the one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth degree of longitude west of Greenwich.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington
NZ Gazette 1901, No 59
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Proclamation extending New Zealand's colonial boundaries to include the Cook Group and other islands
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🌏 External Affairs & Territories10 June 1901
Colonial boundaries, Cook Islands, Proclamation, Governor Ranfurly, Order in Council
- John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington