✨ Proclamation of Gold Field
NEW ZEALAND
Government Gazette.
PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
W. H. AYLMER,
Clerk to Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 1866. **[No. 19.]
PROCLAMATION.
By the Hon. JOHN PARKIN TAYLOR, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Southland.
In pursuance and exercise of the power in me vested in this behalf I do hereby constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the Gold Fields Act 1862 under the name of the Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, all that territory comprised within the area bounded on the North by an east and west line in transit with the top of Ferndunlaw Hill from the Waiau to a tributary of Purra-purra-kino River,
rising to the eastward of the aforesaid Hill; on the East by said tributary and the Purra-purra-kino River, to Block XVII Jacob’s River Hundred, then by Block XVII and Block I of aforesaid Hundred to the ocean; on the South and South West by low-water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits, and on the West by the Waiau River: excepting always out of the area herein before described the following native Reserves and Runs.
The native Reserve at Colac’s Bay, bounded on the north east by a line (starting from a marked peg on the
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 19
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🗺️ Proclamation of Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey12 October 1866
Gold Field, Proclamation, Orepuki, Longwood, Southland
- John Parkin Taylor, Superintendent of the Province of Southland
- W. H. Aylmer, Clerk to Superintendent