Pursuant to section 16 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 ("the Act"), notice was given in the New Zealand Gazette, 19 July 2012, No. 86, page 2389, of proposals by the New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa ("Board") to assign new geographic names.
Submissions received for the geographic name proposals were dealt with by the Board according to section 18 of the Act.
After considering reports from the Board, I hereby declare that my final determinations for the geographic names, made pursuant to sections 20(2) and 20(3) of the Act and, as specified in the first column of the Schedule below ("the Schedule"), are now the official geographic names.
The geographic feature types that these names relate to are set out in the second column of the Schedule.
The descriptions for these names are set out in the third column of the Schedule.
The date on which I made my decisions was 6 June 2013.
My final determinations on these names shall take effect on 20 June 2013.
Schedule
First Column Second Column Third Column
Official
Geographic
Name Geographic
Feature Type Description
North Auckland Land District
Westgate Suburb Located approximately 15km north-west of the Auckland Central Business District, bounded generally by Kedgley Drive to the east, extending south and west to State Highway 16. NZTopo50 BA31-Waitemata Harbour, GR 431 245. Alteration from Massey North (local-use name).
Wellington Land District
Paekakariki Hill Locality Located between Pukerua Bay suburb to the west, Pauatahanui locality to the
south-west, and Judgeford locality to the south-east. NZTopo50 BP32-Paraparaumu,
GR 630 544. Assigning a new locality name.
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of June 2013.
HON MAURICE WILLIAMSON, Minister for Land Information.