Opening of Te Aroha—The Government Proclamation.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3717, 23 November 1880, Page 2

Opening of Te Aroha—The Government Proclamation.

James Prendergast, Administrator of the Gorernment. A proclamation: i Whereas by the Gold Mining District' Act,1873, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Government from time to \ time by proclamation in General Government Gazette, to constitute and. appoint any district to be a gold mining district; under the said Act, to assign boundaries to such district, to enlarge, construct or otherwise alter such boundaries, and to declare by what local name every such district shall be designated; and whereas, it is expedient that the district described in the schedule hereto should be eon* stituted a goldmining district under the said Act, now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, and administratbr of the Government thereof, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority rested in the Governor by the said act do hereby constitute the district particularly described in the schedule hereto to be a gold mining district under the said Act, and its Amending Act, with the boundaries in the said schedule mentioned, and do declare that such district shall be designated by the name of " The Aroha Gold Mining Dis* trict." This proclamation to take effect on and from Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November inst, at nine o'clock in the morning. Schedule: AH that block of land in the provincial district of Auckland comprised within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point at the Waihou river near the mouth of the Mangaiti river stream, thence towards the north by lines forming the northern boundary of the Aroha block to Waitawhata river, thence by that river and by the confiscation boundary in the direction of Ngakuriawh&re, towards the east by a line drawn due south to the north west corner of section 15, block 4, Katikati Survey District; by the western boundary of that section again, by a line by the western boundary of section 16, block 4 aforesaid; by section 65 and 50a, block 8, Katikati Survey District; again by a line and by the western boundaries of 63, 62 and 70 of 8 aforesaid; towards the south by a line, being the production of the southern boundary of block 7, Aroha Survey District, to its intersection with Section 10, block 8, Katikati, afore* said, and then towards the west by Waihou or Thames river to the point of commencement, excluding therefrom the Euakaka block, containing 415 acres and a reserve of 20 acres in block 9, Aroha Survey District, known as the Hot Springs reserve, as the same is delineated upon a plan deposited in the survey office Auckland, given under the hand of His Excellency James Prendergast, Esq.; Chief Justice, the administrator of the; Government of Her Majesty's colony of New Zealand; and issued tinder the seal of the said colony at the Government House at Wellington this 19th day of November, in the year of our Lord' one thousand eight hundred and eighty.—H. A. AtkinboiT. God save the Queen.