Numb. 31.

1021

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1909.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1909.

Amended Description of Hauraki Mining District.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Mining Act, 1908” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke so much of the Proclamation constituting the Hauraki Mining District, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 68, of the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as defines the boundaries of that district, and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said district shall be those mentioned in the Schedule hereto. And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect as from the date of gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE

NORTH ISLAND.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea and Tauranga Harbour, from Cape Colville to the Kaituna River; thence by the estuary of that river towards the south-east, by the road from Maketu to Rotorua to a point where a line drawn from Trig. Station No. 27 (Puwhenua) over the trig. station on Te Taheke intersects the said road; thence towards the south-west by a right line over the said Te Taheke Trig. Station to the said Trig. Station No. 27 (Puwhenua); thence by a right line to Weraiti Trig. Station; thence towards the south and south-west by Okania No. 1b Block; and again towards the south-west generally by the left bank of the Waihou or Thames River, the Firth of Thames, and the Hauraki Gulf to Cape Colville, to place of commencement: save and excepting Sections Nos. 11 and 18, Block I; Section No. 19, Block VII; Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 20, and 26, Block XI; Sections Nos. 12, 13, 15, 16, and 22, Block 15, Hastings Survey District: comprising an area of 3,295 acres.

Also all that area known as the Great Barrier Island.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by a right line from the source of the Waikoukou River to the northernmost corner of Section No. 97, Paremoremo Parish; thence by Pukeatua and Okura Parishes to the sea; thence towards the east generally by the sea to the mouth of the Wairau Stream; thence towards the south generally by the said Wairau Stream and its northern branch through Sections Nos. 105, 113, and 112, Parish of Takapuna, to its source; thence by a right line to the source of Hellyer’s Creek; thence by the said Hellyer’s Creek to Waitemata Harbour; thence by the waters of the said Waitemata Harbour, by Brigham’s Creek and Waipareira Parish to the Kumeu River; and thence towards the west generally by that river and the Waikoukou River to the source of the latter river, the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Land Districts, containing by admeasurement 656,000 acres, more or less, being the Urewera District Native Reserve. Bounded towards the north by the confiscation-boundary line; towards the east generally by the Waimana and Tahoma No. 2 Blocks; towards the south-east by the Waipaoa Block, the Waikaremoana Lake, by forest reserve, educational reserve, Block V, Waiau Survey District, and Section No. 1, Block VIII, Mangahopai Survey District; towards the south-west by the Waiau River to the northernmost corner of Maungataniwha Block, thence by a right line to the trig. station on Maungataniwha, and thence by Heruiwi No. 4 Block; and towards the west generally by Whirinaki, Kuhawaea No. 1, Waiohau Nos. 1b, 1a, and 2, and Tuararangaiä Blocks to the confiscation-boundary line at Tapapa-kiekie.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE KING!