✨ Boundary Redefinitions
1154
Redefining the Boundaries of the Borough of Gore, the County
of Southland, and the Hokonui Riding of the County of
Southland
Pursuant to section 147 of the Municipal Corporations
Act 1933, the Minister of Internal Affairs hereby defines,
as set out in the Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the
Borough of Gore, the County of Southland, and the Hokonui
Riding of the County of Southland, the previous boundaries
having been altered by Order in Council made under the said
Act dated the 24th day of March 1953, and published in
New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of the 26th day of March 1953.
SCHEDULE
Boundaries of the Borough of Gore
ALL that area in the Southland Land District, bounded by a
line commencing at the north-eastern corner of Lot 1 on
Plan No. 34, deposited in the office of the District Land
Registrar at Invercargill; thence north-westerly generally
along the south-western side of the Waimea Plains Branch
Railway Reserve to a point in line with the southern boundary
of Lot 15, Block III, on plan numbered 70, deposited as
aforesaid; thence due west by a right line across the Gore-
Lumsden State Highway, and along the southern boundary of
Lot 15 aforesaid to the north-western corner of Lot 32 on
plan numbered 63, deposited as aforesaid; thence due north
by a right line for a distance of 250 links; thence due west
by a right line running parallel to Norton Street to a public
road forming the south-eastern boundary of Lot 9, Block III,
on the said plan numbered 70; thence south-westerly along
the south-eastern side of the said public road to Norton
Street; thence due west along a right line across the said
public road to the southern corner of the said Lot 9; thence
north-westerly along the south-western boundary of the said
Lot 9 to a point in line with the western boundary of Lot 1
on plan numbered 3276, deposited as aforesaid; thence due
south along a right line to and along the western boundary
of the said Lot 1, and that boundary produced to the centre-
line of a public road forming the southern boundary of the
said Lot 1; thence easterly along the said centre-line to a
point in line with the eastern boundary of part Lot 10,
Block II, on the said plan numbered 70; thence due south to
and along the eastern boundaries of part Lots 10, 11, 12, and
13, Block II, on the said plan numbered 70, to the south-
eastern corner of the said part Lot 13; thence due west along
the southern boundary of the said part Lot 13 to the south-
western corner thereof; thence due north along the western
boundary of the said part Lot 13 to the southern boundary
of Lot 8, Block II, on the said plan numbered 70; thence due
west along the southern boundary of the said Lot 8 to a
point in line with the eastern boundary of Lot 39 on plan
numbered 927, deposited as aforesaid; thence due south by
a right line to and along the eastern boundary of the said
Lot 39, across Gertrude Street, along the eastern boundaries
of Lots 29 and 22 on the said plan numbered 927, across
Maud Street, along the eastern boundary of Lot 4 on the
said plan numbered 927, and along that boundary produced,
to a point in line with the southern boundary of Lot 4 on
plan numbered 1568, deposited as aforesaid; thence due
west by a right line to and along the southern boundary of
the said Lot 4, across Naumai Street, and along the southern
boundary of Lot 12 on the said plan numbered 1568 to the
south-eastern boundary of Section 497, Block LXXI, Hokonui
Survey District; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern
boundaries of Sections 497 and 496, Block LXXI aforesaid to
the north-western corner of Lot 1 on plan numbered 2414,
deposited as aforesaid; thence due east along the northern
boundary of the said Lot 1, and the northern boundary of
Lot 13 on the plan numbered 410, deposited as aforesaid, to
its intersection with a line running parallel to and 250 links
west from the western side of Frank Street; thence south-
westerly along the said line to the northern boundary of part
Lot 2, Block II, on plan numbered 87, deposited as aforesaid;
thence due east along the northern boundary of the said part
Lot 2 to the north-eastern corner thereof; thence south-
westerly along the south-eastern boundary of the said Part
Lot 2 to the north-western corner of part Lot 25 on plan
numbered 181, deposited as aforesaid; thence due east along
the northern boundary of the said part Lot 25 to a point 250
links from the western side of Robertson Street; thence due
south along a right line running parallel to Robertson Street
to the centre-line of Charlton Road; thence due east along the
centre-line of Charlton Road to a point in line with the
eastern boundary of Lot 1 on plan numbered 1503, deposited
as aforesaid; thence due south to and along the eastern
boundary of the said Lot 1 for a distance of 250 links; thence
due east by a line running parallel to Charlton Road to the
eastern boundary of Lot 10, Block I, on plan numbered 87,
deposited as aforesaid; thence south-westerly along the eastern
boundary of the said Lot 10 to the northern corner of Lot 3,
on plan numbered 1257, deposited as aforesaid; thence south-
easterly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Lot 3
to the western side of the Gore-Invercargill State Highway;
thence north-easterly along the western side of the said State
highway to its junction with a line running parallel to and
250 links south of the southern side of Salford Street; thence
due east along the said line to the Mataura River; thence
northerly generally along the right bank of the Mataura
River to a point in line with the southern boundary of Bury
Street; thence north-easterly by a right line to the con-
fluence of the Waikaka Stream and the Mataura River; thence
north-easterly generally along the right bank of the Waikaka
Stream to a point due south of the easternmost corner of
Section 16, Block XXV, Town of East Gore; thence due north
by a right line to the southern boundary of Block I, Waikaka
Survey District; thence due west along the southern boun-
dary of Block I, Waikaka Survey District, to the left bank
of the Mataura River; thence southerly along the left bank
of the Mataura River to a point in line with the southern
boundary of Section 306, Block LXX, Hokonui Survey District;
thence due west to and along the southern boundary of the
said Section 306 to the point of commencement.
BOUNDARIES OF THE COUNTY OF SOUTHLAND
All that area situated in the Southland Land District, and
bounded as follows: Commencing at the mouth of the Wai-
matuku Stream; thence in a north-westerly and south-easterly
direction along the centre of the Waimatuku Stream to a
point in line with the centre of the new channel through
Sections 2A and 1A, Block XIX, New River Hundred, approxi-
mately 1750 links south-east from the westernmost corner of
the aforesaid Section 2A; thence to and along the centre of
the said new channel on a bearing of 352° 45' to the centre of
the said Waimatuku Stream; thence by the centre of the said
Waimatuku Stream to a point in line with the centre of the
said new channel; thence on a bearing of 23° 30' to and
along the centre of the said new channel to the south-eastern
corner of Section 10, Block XIX, New River Hundred; thence
along the centre of the said new channel, which follows the
south-eastern boundary of Section 10 aforesaid, to the centre
of the said Waimatuku Stream; thence in a northerly direc-
tion generally by the centre of the said Waimatuku Stream to
the centre of the road forming the southern boundary of
Section 25, Block III, Oreti Hundred; thence due east by
the centre of the said road to the centre of the road forming
the eastern boundary of Section 69, Block III, Oreti Hundred;
thence due north by the centre of the said road to the centre
of the road forming part of the southern boundary of Section
166, Block III, Oreti Hundred; thence due east by the centre
of the said road to the centre of the road forming the eastern
boundary of the aforesaid Section 166, and Sections 165, 164B,
164A, part Section 163, Lot 1 on a plan numbered 2888,
deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at
Invercargill, Sections 162 and 161, all in Block III, Oreti
Hundred, parts of Section 156, Block IV, Oreti Hundred, and
the Village of Drummond; thence in a northerly direction by
the centre of the said road to a point in line with the southern
boundary of Section 61, Block IX, Oreti Hundred; thence in
an easterly direction, to and along the southern boundaries of
the said Section 61 and Section 51, Block IX aforesaid, and
that boundary produced to the centre of the road forming the
south-eastern boundary of the said Section 51, and Sections
50, 49, and 48, all in Block IX, Oreti Hundred; thence in a
northerly direction generally by the centre of the said road
to the centre of the road intersecting Section 62, Blocks IX
and XV, Oreti Hundred; thence in an easterly and north-
easterly direction by the centre of the said road to the centre
of the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Section 62
aforesaid and Section 53, Block XV, Oreti Hundred; thence
by the centre of the said road to the centre of the road
forming the southern boundary of Section 237, Block
XXXIX, Taringatura Survey District; thence easterly along
the centre of the said road forming the southern boundaries
of Sections 237 and 238, Block XXXIX, Taringatura Survey
District, to a point in line with the eastern boundary of the
said Section 238 aforesaid; thence by a right line to and
along the said eastern boundary of Section 238 aforesaid,
the eastern boundaries of Sections 239, 240, 241, and 242,
Block XXXIX aforesaid, and the eastern boundaries of
Sections 243, 244, 245, and Part 119, Block XXXV, Taringa-
tura Survey District, and by a right line being the production
of the said eastern boundary of part Section 119 aforesaid
to a point in line with the southern boundary of Section 188,
Block XXIX, Taringatura Survey District; thence due east
by a right line to the south-western corner of Section 188
aforesaid; thence in a northerly direction generally by part
of the eastern boundary of Section 369, Block XXVIII,
Taringatura Survey District, and Sections 368 and 367, Block
XXII, Taringatura Survey District, to the line forming the
southern boundary of Run 150B, Block XVIII, Taringatura
Survey District; thence due east by the southern boundaries
of Run 150B and part Section 186, Block XVIII, Taringatura
Survey District, Sections 261, 79, Lots 18 and 19 on the plan
numbered 51, deposited in the office of the District Land
Registrar at Invercargill, all in Block XIX, and Sections 126,
17, 66, 10, and 18, Block XX, Taringatura Survey District,
and the southern boundary of the said Section 18 produced
to the centre of the Oreti River; thence in a northerly, north-
westerly, and northerly direction generally by the centre of
the Oreti River to a point due west of Hummock Peak; thence
by a right line due east to Hummock Peak; thence south-
easterly by a right line to Jane Peak; thence easterly by a
right line to Eyre Peak; thence southerly by a right line to
the source of the Mataura River; thence in a south-easterly
direction by the centre of the Mataura River to a point in
line with the south-eastern boundary of Section 5, Block III,
Nokomai Survey District; thence to and by the south-eastern
boundary of the said Section 5, and Sections 6, 7, and 8,
all in Block III, Nokomai Survey District, to Trig. A;
thence in a north-easterly direction by right lines to Trigs. E
and C, Block IV, Trigs. GS and D, Block VII, Nokomai
Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction generally
by the summit of the Slate Range and the Hector Mountains
to Lorn Peak; thence by a right line south-east to Rocky
Mountain; thence due east by a right line to a point on the
summit of the Umbrella Mountains; thence in a south-
westly direction generally by the summit of the Umbrella
Mountains to Black Umbrella; thence in a southerly direction
by a right line to the source of the Leithen Burn; thence
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🗺️ Redefinition of Boundaries for Gore Borough and Southland County
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