NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 7

26 JANUARY 2012

New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008

Notice of Approved Recorded Geographic Name

Pursuant to sections 10(1)(b), 24 and 21(2) of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (the "Board") hereby gives notice of an approved recorded geographic name.

This is specified in the first column of the Schedule below ("the Schedule") and relates to the geographic feature type listed in the second column of the Schedule.

The description of the approved recorded name is set out in the third column of the Schedule.

The Board’s approval of this recorded name takes effect on 26 January 2012.

Schedule

| First Column
Approved Recorded Geographic Name | Second Column
Geographic Feature Type | Third Column
Description |
|---------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------|
| North Auckland Land District
North Head | Point | A distinctive coastal point at the northern entrance of Waitemata Harbour.
NZTopo50 BA32-Auckland, GR 617 227. |

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of January 2012.

W. K. SHAW, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa.

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Notice of Proposals to Assign or Alter or Discontinue Geographic Names

Pursuant to section 16 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 ("the Act"), the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa hereby gives notice of various proposals to either assign new, or alter existing, or discontinue existing, geographic names.

The proposed new or altered or discontinued geographic names are specified in the first column of the Schedule below ("the Schedule").

The geographic feature type that each proposed new or altered or discontinued geographic name relates to is set out in the second column of the Schedule.

The description of each proposed new or altered or discontinued geographic name is set out in the third column of the Schedule.

The date by which submissions must be received is provided in the fourth column of the Schedule.

Submissions on proposed new or altered or discontinued geographic names may be provided in writing to the Secretary of the New Zealand Geographic Board, c/o Land Information New Zealand, PO Box 5501, Wellington 6145. Facsimile: (04) 472 2244. Email: nzgbsubmissions@linz.govt.nz Website: www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/consultation/index.aspx

In accordance with section 17 of the Act, submissions must state, with reasons, whether the proposal is supported or objected to and if an objection is made, then submissions may set out an alternative proposal, or support the existing name, if any.

Schedule

Proposed assigned or altered or discontinued geographic names

| First Column
Proposed Geographic Name | Second Column
Geographic Feature Type | Third Column
Description | Fourth Column
Submission deadline |
|-----------------------------------|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| South Auckland Land District
Stokes Peak | Peak | Raised peak, at height 814m, located in the Kaimai Range, directly above the Kaimai Railway Tunnel.
NZTopo50 BD36-Lower Kaimai, GR 532 251.
Geodetic mark, coded A39H, named 5793, beaconed, is located at the summit. Official by New Zealand Gazette, 9 September 2010, No. 115, page 3108. To be discontinued. | 27 April 2012 |
| Te Hanga Ridge | Ridge | A distinctive ridge along the Kaimai Range, extending in a generally southerly direction from a hill named Ngatamahinerua at height 849m to a point at height 640m where the ridge drops steeply near one of the source tributaries of Puketutu Stream near spot height 576m. Located on the ridge are a hill named Pukupenga at height 841m and the current official name of Stokes Peak which is proposed to be discontinued above. NZTopo50 BD35-Matamata GR 513 279 to BD36-Lower Kaimai GR 539 234.
Assigning a traditional and locally used Māori name. | 27 April 2012 |