✨ Proclamation of Resident Magistrates' Districts
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1869.
[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 24, of the 4th May, 1869.]
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ Districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case may be: And whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, his Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in him, did proclaim and declare the districts described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation, including amongst other districts the District of Greymouth and the District of Hokitika to be, on and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates’ Districts within the meaning of the said Act:
And whereas it is expedient to define and alter the boundaries of the respective Districts of Greymouth and Hokitika, in manner hereinafter appearing:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Districts of Greymouth and Hokitika, as the same are defined and described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, be the boundaries of the Districts of Greymouth and Hokitika within the meaning and for the purposes of "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867;" and I do hereby, from the date aforesaid, define and alter the boundaries of the said districts accordingly.
SCHEDULE.
Greymouth District.
This district is bounded towards the North-east by the Southern boundary of the Province of Nelson, from the mouth of the Grey River to the saddle between the Hurunui and Teremakan Rivers; thence towards the South by the said Teremakan River to its mouth; and thence towards the North-west by the sea to the commencing point at the mouth of the River Grey.
Hokitika District.
This district is bounded towards the North by the Greymouth District hereinbefore defined; towards the South-east by the summit of the main range of the Southern Alps to the source of the Wanganui River; thence towards the South-west by that river to its
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Proclamation, Resident Magistrates' Districts, Greymouth, Hokitika, Boundaries
- G. F. Bowen, Governor