Pursuant to sections 19 and 21(2) of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, the
New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa ("Board") hereby gives notice of the final determinations to discontinue existing and assign new, geographic names.
The discontinued geographic name is no longer an official geographic name and is specified in the first column of the Schedule below.
The new geographic name is now an official geographic name and is specified in the first column of the Schedule below.
The geographic feature type that each discontinued and new geographic name relates to, is set out in the second column of the Schedule below.
The description of each discontinued and new geographic name is set out in the third column of the Schedule below.
The Board’s final determinations on these geographic names take effect on 19 July 2012.
Schedule
First Column Second Column Third Column
Discontinued
or Official Geographic
Name Geographic
Feature Type Description
South Auckland Land District
Stokes Peak Peak Raised peak, at height 814m, located in the Kaimai Range, directly above the Kaimai Railway Tunnel. NZTopo50 BD36-Lower Kaimai, GR 532 251. Geodetic mark, coded A39H, named 5793, beaconed, is located at the summit. Stokes Peak now discontinued and New Zealand Gazette, 9 September 2010, No. 115, page 3108 replaced.
Te Hanga Ridge Ridge A distinctive ridge along the Kaimai Range, extending in a generally southerly direction from a hill Ngatamahinerua at height 849m, to a point at height 640m where the ridge drops steeply near one of the source tributaries of Puketutu Stream near spot height 576m. Located on the ridge is a hill named Pukupenga at height 841m. NZTopo50 BD35-Matamata GR 513 279 to BD36-Lower Kaimai GR 539 234. Assigning a traditional and locally used original Maori name.
Dated at Wellington this 19th day of July 2012.
W. K. SHAW, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa.