Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 29 December 1892, Page 212

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1892, page 1649, 1650, 1688.) Altering Boundaries of the Westland and Nelson District Court Districts.

(L.s.)

GLASGOW, Governor. A PROCLAMATION

'T'TTHEREAS by “ The District Courts Act, 1858,” it is V V enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which District Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter :

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfive, a district was defined within which a District Court should be held under the said Act, and it was thereby declared that the said Court should be designated by the name of “ The Nelson District Court: ”

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, the boundaries of the said district so defined were altered :

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, a

district was defined within which a District Court should be held under the said Act, and it was thereby declared that the said Court should be designated by the name of “ The District Court of Westland : ”

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, the boundaries of the said district so defined were altered :

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, the boundaries of the said districts so defined were further altered:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the boundaries of the said Nelson and Westland Districts so defined as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow', the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the first day of January next, the boundaries of the districts within which the Nelson District Court and the District Court of Westland shall respectively be held shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries thereof shall be the boundaries hereinafter described:— Nelson District Court District. All that area in the Land Districts of Nelson and Marlborough hounded towards the west and north generally by the sea from Kohaihai Bluff, on the West Coast, to Croixelles Harbour ; thence by a line due east to Elaine Bay, Tennyson Inlet; towards the south-east generally by Tennyson Inlet, Tawhitinui Reach, Popoure Reach, Hikapu Reach, and Mahau Sound to Black Point; thence by the summit of the watershed leading to Elliott Peak; thence by the Counties of Marlborough and Amuri respectively to Mount Humboldt; and towards the south-west and again towards the west generally by the District Court District of Westland, hereinafter described. District Court District op Westland.

All that area in the Land Districts of Nelson and Westland bounded towards the north by Collingwood County ; towards the south-east by the Counties of Waimea and Inangahua to the Buffer River; thence towards the north-east by a right line to Mount Humboldt; again towards the south-east by the County of Amuri to the Hurunui Saddle ; thence by the summit of the Southern Alps to Mount Aspiring; towards the south-west by a right line to the mouth of the Awarua River ; and towards the north-west by the ocean.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Auckland, this seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. A. J. CADMAN.

God save the Queen !