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The Auckland Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.




Area


The province covered roughly half of the North Island of New Zealand. It was the largest of the six initial provinces, both by area and population. The southern boundary was mostly along the 39th latitude, which was an arbitrary line, as the country's interior was little known by Europeans. It was not subdivided during its existence; the Taranaki Province (originally named New Plymouth Province) was the only other that remained unchanged during its existence.




History


The six original provinces were established in 1853. At that time, about 30,000 Europeans were living in New Zealand, a third of them in the Auckland Province. An estimated 70% of the Māori population was within the Auckland Province. Although the population of Otago Province (triggered by the Otago gold rush) and then also the Canterbury Province surpassed Auckland's, the northernmost area of the country became most populous again by 1901.
The provincial system was abolished in 1876. Auckland Province was from then used as an administrative district by the Department of Lands and Survey, but the area was later subdivided into the North Auckland, South Auckland, and Gisborne land districts. The 39th latitude was subsequently replaced by boundaries that took landforms into account, and as a consequence, parts of the former Auckland Province are now in the Wellington and Hawke's Bay land districts, and part of the former Wellington Province is in the South Auckland Land District.




Anniversary Day


New Zealand law provides a public holiday for each province's anniversary day. Auckland Anniversary Day generally occurs in late January, on the Monday closest to 29 January, and is still observed throughout the historic province.




Auckland Provincial Council


Auckland Provincial Council was the elected body of Auckland Province. From its second session onwards, the council used the General Assembly House for its meetings. It shared the use of this building with the New Zealand Parliament from 1854 until 1864 during the time that Auckland was the capital of New Zealand. From 1858, the province owned the building, but continued to make it available to parliament.




= Superintendents

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The Auckland Province had nine Superintendents:




= Speakers

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The Provincial Council had three Speakers:




= Members

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In 1853 the province had 6 electorates, with 24 members:

City of Auckland, 6 members
Suburbs of Auckland, 4 members
Pensioner Settlements, 4 members
Northern Division, 4 members
Southern Division, 4 members
Bay of Islands, 2 members
For its last session of 1873–76, it had 43 members:

Albertland: John Shepherd
Auckland East: William John Hurst, Joseph Dargaville, Philip Aaron Philips
Auckland West: James Thomas Boylan, Patrick Dignan, David Goldie, Frederick Prime, William Swanson
Bay of Islands: Hugh Carleton
Coromandel: Alfred Cadman
Eden: Andrew Beveridge, William Buckland
Hokianga: John Sheehan
Kaipara: Henry Lloyd
Mangonui: William Thomas Ball
Newton: Rev. Thomas Cheeseman, Thomas Macready
Onehunga: John Lundon, Maurice O'Rorke
Opotiki: William Kelly
Otamatea: Murdoch McLeod
Pakuranga: Ponsonby John Raleigh Peacocke
Papakura: William Hay
Parnell: Benjamin Tonks, Reader Wood
Raglan: Thomas Wilson
Ramarama: Joseph Crispe
Takapuna: George McCullagh Reed
Tamaki: Robert Nair Ryburn
Tauranga: George Morris
Thames: Lemuel Bagnall, John Brown, William Carpenter, William Turnbull Swan, William Davies
Turanganui: James Woodbine Johnson
Waikato: William Australia Graham
Waipa: Henry Byron, Hungerford Roche
Wairoa and Mangapai: William Ormiston
Waitemata: Allan Kerr Taylor
Waiuku: Ebenezer Hamlin
Warkworth: William Pollock Moat
Whangarei: Robert Douglas




= Legislation

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Auckland Provincial Ordinances 1854–1875
Public Buildings Act 1875




Footnotes






Notes






References


Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.




External links


Map of the old provincial boundaries
Results of 1861 election and Superintendent election
Results of 1862 Superintendent election

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