✨ Maritime Port Limits
1696
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No.52
SMOOTH-WATER LIMITS—continued.
| Name of Port. | River and Smooth-water Limits. | Extended and partially Smooth Limits. | Extreme River Limits. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland.. | Inside Rangitoto Reef, Tamaki Strait, and not beyond Koherunui Point, and inside Waiheke Channel | Inside a right line drawn from Hautapu Point on the Coromandel Peninsula to Shearer Rock, and thence to Tawharanui Point | Nil. |
| Awanui... | Inside a line drawn from Blackney Point to Motutara Rock, and thence west-south-west (magnetic) to the beach | Inside a line drawn from Cape Karaka to Farmer Point | " |
| Bay of Islands... | Tapeka Point and Brampton Bank | Inside a straight line drawn from Cape Wiki to Cape Brett | " |
| Bluff... | Stirling Point... | Within a radius of 20 miles from Stirling Point Light; tugs, pilot-vessels, and dredges | " |
| Catlin’s River ... | Within the Heads | Nil..... | " |
| Coromandel... | Deadman Point and Waimate Island | Same as Auckland... | " |
| Dunedin and Port Chalmers | Taiaroa Head; tugs, not beyond 1 mile outside Taiaroa Head | To 30 miles from Taiaroa Head, fishing-boats only; pilot-vessels not beyond 8 miles outside Taiaroa Head | " |
| Great Barrier Is-land—Port Abercrombie and Port Fitzroy | Inside a line from outer point of Green Island to Wellington Head, and thence to False Head | Within a radius of 3 miles from the coast-line of the island | " |
| Port Tryphena | Inside a straight line drawn from north-west to south-east Heads of Harbour entrance | Within a radius of 3 miles from the coast-line of the island | " |
| Greymouth... | Inside Bar.... | 10 miles from Signal Flagstaff; tugs and dredges | " |
| Havelock... | Pelorus Sound... | Picton, Queen Charlotte Sound, and French Pass | " |
| Herekino... | Inside Bar.... | Nil.... | " |
| Hicks Bay... | Inside a right line drawn from Matakawa Point to Iron Point (Kahau) | Between Hicks Bay and Te Araroa | " |
| Hokianga... | Inside Bar.... | Nil.... | " |
| Hokitika.... | "..... | ".... | " |
| Invercargill... | "..... | ".... | " |
| Kaipara..... | Inside Heads... | ".... | " |
| Kawhia...... | "..... | ".... | " |
| Lyttelton.... | Godley Head and not beyond Port Levy... | Between Lyttelton, Le Bon’s Bay, and Kaiapoi. Fishing-vessels between Lyttelton and Motunau Island on the north, and between Lyttelton and Akaroa on the south | Akaroa and Gore Bay. |
| Mahurangi... | Inside a right line drawn from the North Head to the north-west point of Horora Island, and from the south-west point of Horora Island to the South Head | Same as Auckland limits | Nil. |
| Maketu..... | Inside Bar.... | Nil.... | " |
| Manawatu.... | "..... | ".... | " |
| Manukau..... | Paratutai... | ".... | " |
| Mongonui.... | Inside Heads... | In Doubtless Bay, inside a right line drawn from Knuckle Point to Flat Head | " |
| Mercury Bay... | Within the River... | Karanga Point and Mahurangi Island | " |
| Mokau...... | Inside Bar.... | Nil.... | " |
| Molyneux..... | "..... | ".... | " |
| Napier....... | Within a radius of 2 miles from Port Ahuriri Light at east side of entrance of Inner Harbour | Portland Island and Cape Kidnappers | Portland Island and Cape Turnagain. |
| Nelson........ | Inside Boulder-bank... | Astrolabe and Croixelles | Massacre Bay and Greville Harbour. Waitara, Opunake and Awakino. |
| New Plymouth.. | Within 1½ miles from end of Breakwater... | Inside a right line drawn from a point 2 nautical miles to the westward of Paritutu to a point 2 miles to the westward of the entrance of the Waitara River; tugs, dredges, and hopper-barges | Nil. |
| Ngunguru..... | Inside Heads... | 2 miles from Bar; towing only | " |
| Oamaru....... | Inside Breakwater... | Within 3 miles from the flagstaff on South Head | " |
| Ohia......... | Inside Bar.... | Between the new outlet of the Rangitata River and Opape Point, including Whale Island and Rurima Rocks | " |
| Opotiki....... | "..... | Same as Ohia.... | " |
| Patea......... | "..... | Nil.... | " |
| Picton........ | Long Island and Tory Channel | French Pass.... | " |
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1923, No 52
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1923, No 52
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