Hokitika, 17th September, 1870.

Pursuant to Section 13 of “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” I hereby publish for general information Bye Laws No. 17 and 18 of the Jones’ Flat Mining Drainage Board under the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor.

C. Hoos,
Governor’s Delegate.

BYE LAW No. 17.

At a weekly Meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at Ross, in the said district, on the 17th day of August, 1870, it is enacted as follows:—

That is to say—

Whereas the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat did grant, upon the application of the “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” Drainage Area No. 1, on the 21st day of July, 1869, in pursuance of Bye Law No. 2, of the said Board, clause No. 4:

And whereas it is expedient to define exactly the work to be performed by the said “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” and also the amount of remuneration to be paid by the said Board for such as aforesaid work.

Now therefore, the said Mining Drainage Board for the said District of Jones’s Flat do hereby enact that the following shall be the terms upon which the Drainage of the Areas within Drainage Area No. 1 shall be performed by the said “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” and the payments which shall be made to the said Drainage Company, by the said Drainage Board; that is to say:—

1. That the said “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” shall maintain in good and efficient working order, upon a part of the said Area No. 1, machinery, pumping, and winding gear to well and efficiently drain the said areas within Area No. 1, in accordance with the provisions of the Bye Laws of the said Drainage Board for the District of Jones’s Flat, and such efficient drainage shall continue for the term of three years from the date hereof.

2. That the said Mining Drainage Board shall, from out of the funds to be levied as the weekly rate, pay to the said “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” a weekly sum of £175, payable fortnightly.

3. That such payment shall continue for the term of six months, and thence from six

Westland Goldfield all those portions of the Colony included within the boundaries of the towns of Hokitika, Greymouth and Okarito, as the same are respectively defined in the Schedule hereto annexed: and I do hereby proclaim, constitute, and appoint all that portion of the Colony which is contained within the said County of Westland, with the exceptions of those portions of the Colony included within the boundaries of the towns aforesaid and defined in the said Schedule hereto annexed, to be a Goldfield under the Goldfields Acts, to be called and known as “THE WESTLAND GOLD FIELDS.”

SCHEDULE.

1. The town of Hokitika, comprising all that area, containing 640 acres, more or less, situate on the north side of the Hokitika River, commencing at a point on the high bank of the old bed of the aforesaid river, the said point being forty chains forty links west of Trigonometrical station 31; thence following a line bearing North 20 degrees 14 minutes East (magnetic) a distance of 62 chains 65 links; thence Westerly, at a right angle, a distance of 85 chains 40 links to the sea beach, following the said beach southerly to the mouth of the Hokitika River, and from thence returning along the Northern bank thereof and the high bank of the old river bed above-mentioned to the commencing point.

2. The town of Greymouth, comprising all that parcel of land containing three hundred (300) acres, more or less, bounded on the Northward by the Grey River; on the Eastward by Native Reserve (No 31) and Shakespeare street—with the Road and Railway Reserve; on the Southward by Marlborough street, and on the Westward by the sea coast, the same as set forth on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the County of Westland setting out and describing the town of Greymouth aforesaid.

3. The town of Okarito, comprising all that parcel of land, containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres, more or less, situate at Okarito, on the west side of the lagoon, having a frontage of about one hundred (100) chains to the lagoon, the southwestern boundary being a line at right angles to the general direction of the coast, and the southeastern boundary being a line at right angles to the last described boundary, to include the above quantity, subject to the Native Reserve.

Given under my hand at Hokitika this seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

C. Hoos.