β¨ Union of Boroughs Proclamation
Numbr. 13.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1913.
Union of Boroughs of City of Auckland and Parnell.
[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the respective Councils of the City of Auckland and of the Borough of Parnell, by petitions under the respective common seals of the Corporations of such city and borough, as provided by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, have prayed the Governor that such city and borough (forming one continuous area) be constituted one united borough:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, do hereby proclaim that the said City of Auckland and the said Borough of Parnell are hereby constituted one united borough, and also that the said borough so constituted is a city by the name of the City of Auckland, and also that the boundaries of the said city so constituted and named shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto:
And I do also proclaim and declare that the said borough shall be an undivided borough, and that the number of Councillors to be elected to the Council thereof shall be fifteen, exclusive of the Mayor:
And I do hereby appoint Henry William Wilson (the Town Clerk to the existing City of Auckland) to be the Town Clerk, and George Robert Hogan, Returning Officer, temporarily of the said united borough:
And I do also proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
SCHEDULE.
BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the west and north generally by high-water mark of Waitemata Harbour in the year 1886 from Cox's Greek to a point on the north-eastern boundary of Allotment No. 15 of Section No. 8, Suburbs of Auckland, as defined in the Schedule of the Proclamation extending the boundaries of the City of Auckland in the New Zealand Gazette No. 85, of the 27th October, 1904; thence by right lines 2930, 2274, 3000, 3092, 945, 182, 163, 196, 410, 563, 364, 155, 76, 316, 76, 1490, 758, 184, 577, 241, 802, 913, 1168, 1064, and 1767 links respectively, and thence by the high-water mark of the said Waitemata Harbour to Resolution Point; thence towards the east by the shore of Hobson Bay, in Waitemata Harbour, to the middle of Slaughterhouse Creek; thence towards the south and south-west generally by the southern and south-western boundaries of the Borough of Parnell as it existed at the time when described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 35, of the 19th April, 1877, page 415, to the southern corner of Section No. 11, City of Auckland, and thence by the south-west boundary of that section to Stanley Street; thence again towards the east generally by the east side of said Stanley Street, by the Government Domain, and by the Hospital Reserve to the road known as Park Road; thence by the northern side of the said road to a point in line with the eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 22 of Section No. 3, Suburbs of Auckland, now the middle of Park Avenue; thence by a right line to and by the said boundary-line, and by its production to the south side of Carlton Gore Road; thence by the south side of that road to the western boundary-line of subdivisional Lot No. 37 of Original Allotment No. 4 of Section No. 3, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by the said Lot No. 37 and Lots Nos. 55, 56, 65, 66, 75, 76, 85, 86, 95, 96, 105, 106, 115, 116, and 13 of Allotment 4 aforesaid, and by the production of the western boundary-line of the last-mentioned lot to the southern side of Kyber Pass Road; thence by the southern side of that road to the eastern side of Boston Road; thence towards the south-east and south generally by the south-eastern side of the said Boston Road to its junction with Mount Eden Road; thence by the western side of Mount Eden Road to Symonds Street; thence by a right line across Symonds Street to and by the north side of Basque Road to Allotment No. 1 of Section No. 5, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by Allotment No. 1 aforesaid and Allotments Nos. 3 and 4 of Section No. 5 aforesaid, and Allotment No. 13 of Section No. 7, Suburbs of Auckland, to the Great North Road; thence by the eastern side of that road to its junction with Ponsonby Road; thence across the Great North Road and by the southern side of Ponsonby Road to Richmond Road; thence by the southern side of Richmond Road to Cox's Creek; and thence by Cox's Creek to the
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ποΈ Proclamation Constituting Auckland and Parnell into one United City
ποΈ Provincial & Local Government15 February 1913
Local government, Municipalities, Auckland, Parnell, City formation, Boundaries
- Liverpool, Governor
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand
- Henry William Wilson (the Town Clerk to the existing City of Auckland)
- George Robert Hogan, Returning Officer