✨ Waterworks Proclamation
PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.
constructed under the said Acts are waterworks for the purpose of supplying water from the Kawhaka Creek and its tributaries, and other streams, as mentioned in the Schedule to the Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of October, 1873, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 62, of October 28, 1873, to a portion of the Westland Gold Field aforesaid, together with all such drains, races, aqueducts, pipes, culverts, buildings, and other works that may be requisite or necessary for the said waterworks; and I do hereby also proclaim and declare that the lands and streams of water proposed to be taken for the purpose of such waterworks are those which are described in general language in the Schedule aforementioned; and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred on me in that behalf, I do hereby fix the point of commencement of the said portion of the said waterworks to a point situated about 15 chains, more or less, south-west of the Town of Goldsboro’, in the Province of Westland, and indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 50, the said peg being a peg of the survey line of Branch B, Waimea Water Race, and the point of termination thereof to be a point situated about 100 chains, more or less, east of Staffordtown, in the same Province, and indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 10l, the said peg being a peg of the survey line of the extension of Branch B, Waimea Water Race.
SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line and Limits of deviation of a portion of the Waterworks commonly known as or called the “Waimea Water Race,” in the Province of Westland, and Lands, Roads, and Watercourses proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said Waterworks.
Commencing at a point about 15 chains, more or less, south-west of the town of Goldsboro’, and indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 50, the said peg being a peg of the survey line of Branch B, Waimea Water Race; proceeding thence in a generally south-south-westerly direction for a distance of about 7 chains, more or less; thence in a generally west-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 3 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-westerly direction for a distance of about 1½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally north-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 2 chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 2 chains, more or less; thence in a generally north-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 4½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 1½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-westerly direction for a distance of about 4½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally northerly direction for a distance of about 6 chains, more or less; thence in a generally west-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 4 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-south-westerly direction for a distance of about 8½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 5½ chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-westerly direction for a distance of about 1 chain, more or less; thence in a generally north-north-westerly direction for a distance of about 2½ chains, more or less; to a point situate about 100 chains, more or less, east of Staffordtown, and indicated by a peg, driven into the ground and marked 10l, the said peg being a peg of the survey line of the extension of Branch B, Waimea Water Race, as the limits, description, and line thereof set forth in the plan, and which plan is authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, or within the limits of deviation set forth in the said plan by dotted red lines, being generally not more than 220 yards on either side of the said line, except where otherwise delineated on plan, and passing in, through over, or into the several places, lands, roads, reserves, rivers, and watercourses generally referred to hereinafter, and comprising so much of the lands, roads, and watercourses hereinafter mentioned as are required for the said portion of the said waterworks, along the line of the said waterworks hereinbefore defined, or within the limits of deviation aforesaid.
All that part or parcel of land lying between the afore-mentioned point of commencement and the afore-described point of termination, and within the limits of deviation hereinbefore mentioned, and comprising the southern tributaries of the Right-hand Branch of Waimea Creek, and of Waimea Creek, and all adjoining and intervening
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Proclamation for Waterworks Construction
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- Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works
Westland Provincial Gazette 1875, No 1