✨ Establishment of Municipality
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
Vol. XXIV. — No. 18. NEW PLYMOUTH, MONDAY, MARCH 16TH, 1874.
ESTABLISHING A MUNICIPALITY AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
BY PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” provision is made for constituting, by Proclamation, boroughs or districts not comprised within the limits of any of the cities, towns, or places therein particularly mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to constitute the Town of New Plymouth a borough in manner hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district comprised within the boundaries hereinafter defined as the Town of New Plymouth.
The said Town of New Plymouth is the boundaries thereof defined in the Schedule hereto, to be a borough under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” aforesaid.
SCHEDULE.
The said town is bounded as follows:
Commencing on the west side of Te Henui Native Reserve at a point marked by the road, Highwater mark in an easterly direction to the sea boundary of Reserve R. 4; thence by a line bearing 143° 30′ magnetic, 500 links, to the Henui River; thence by the said river to a line in prolongation of the south boundary of Native Reserve number 16; thence along the said line to the east bank of the said Henui; thence by the said boundary of Reserve number 16, 200 links; thence by a line bearing 122° 35′, 459 links, to the south side of Devon Street; thence by a line bearing 120° 40′, 493 links, to the western side of a line bearing 215° 2′; thence by a line bearing 150° 2′ links; thence by a line bearing 122° 141′ 703 links, thence by a line bearing 256°, 855 links, and a line in continuation of the same to the west bank of the Waiwhetu; thence by the said river to the north boundary of the land foreshore the north boundary of Reserve Y; thence by the said boundary bearing 235° magnetic, 350 links; thence at a right angle in a north-easterly direction to Hendrie Street, 640 links; thence by the south side of the said street to the north-east corner of the said town.
Next Page →
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1876, No 9
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🏛️ Establishment of New Plymouth Municipality
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProclamation, Municipal Corporations Act, Borough, New Plymouth
- George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand