THREE SCORE AND TEN.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 31 July 1937, Page 3

THREE SCORE AND TEN.

YEARS IN HISTORY.

THAMES GOLDFIELDS. PROCLAIMED OPEN. Without loss of time, after the discovery of gold in Thames in ISO'7, the gohliields were declared open by proclamation, and to-morrow is the 70th. anniversary of the issuing of that announcement which was to make Thames famous the world over.

The proclamation, which was issued by the deputy : superintcndent of the Auckland Province, Daniel Pollen, read as follows:—

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the Goldfieids Act, ISC6, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to bo a Goldfield, and whereas under the provisions of the said Act the power of the Governor having been duly delegated to the Superintendent of the Province oi Auckland, now therefore, in pursuance of the said power, authority and delegation, I do hereby constitute and appoint all that block of land hereinafter described to be a Goldfield under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say:—

All that block of land commencing on the sea-coast at the mouth of the river Kauwaeranga, thence by that river to the junction of the Kakaramata Stream, thence by that stream to its source on the ridge of the hills, thence along the said ridge to the sources of the Hape, Waiotahi, Moanataiari and Kurunui streams, thence turning down the Kurunui Stream to the sea-coast, thence by the sea-coast to the mouth of the Moanataiari Stream, thence inland to the baso of the hills, thence crossing the Waiotalii Stream and by the base of the hills to the Parcreka Spur, thence ascending the said spur, thence descend ing a spur to the Karaka Stream, thence by that stream to the sea-coast, thence by the sea-coast to the point o' commencement.

Given under my hand this 30th. day of July, 1867. DANIEL POLLEN, Deputy-Superintendent.