PROCLAMATIONS

A PROCLAMATION

Appointing certain Districts under the "Registration Act."

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Registration Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zealand for the purposes of the said Act in such and so many Districts as he may think fit, and that every such District shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar’s District; and it is provided that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it anew into Districts, or increasing the number, or altering the boundaries of Districts as from time to time he may think requisite:

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, did amongst others constitute a District for the purposes of the said Act, called the Dunedin District, the boundaries whereof were therein set forth, which said Proclamation came into operation and took effect on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of the said Proclamation as relates to the said District, and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised within such District:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation so far as relates to the Dunedin District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such District shall be and is hereby divided for the purposes of the said Act into two Districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

Port Chalmers District.

All that area comprising the town of Port Chalmers, the Lower Harbour, West Survey District, the Sawyer’s Bay Survey District, Sections numbered 88 to 115 inclusive, North East Valley Survey District, and Blocks 4, 5, 6 and part of 7, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District: Bounded from the North-west corner of Block 4, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District, in a Southerly direction, by the Western boundary line of the said Block 4, to the Northern boundary line of Block 6, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; thence by the said Northern boundary line of the said Block 6 and the Northern boundary line of Block 7, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District, to the Main North Road, thence by the Main North Road to the Northern boundary line of the North East Valley Survey District; thence in a Westerly direction by the said Northern boundary line of the North East Valley District to a road line between Sections 87 and 89 of the said District, thence by the said road line continued between Sections 86 and 88, North East Valley District to the Northern boundary line of Block 9, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; thence in an Easterly direction by the said Northern boundary line of the said Block 9 to the North-west corner of Section 33, Sawyer’s Bay Survey District; thence in a South-easterly direction by the boundary line of the said Sawyer’s Bay Survey District to Otago Harbour and thence by high-water mark to the starting point.

Dunedin District.

All that area bounded on the North by the Waihemo Creek, Blueskin Bay, and the Ocean; on the East and South by Port Chalmers District and by the Ocean; and on the West by Kaikorai and Abbott’s Creeks, thence by the watershed of the Kaikorai Flagstaff and Swampy Hill Ranges to the source of the Waihemo Creek.

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the first day of July next ensuing.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. Grey,
By His Excellency’s command,
Fredk. Whitaker.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 21, June 6, 1864)