AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. IX.] AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1861. [No. 12.

PROCLAMATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the
Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the then Legislative Council thereof, intituled “An Ordinance to empower owners and occupiers of land within certain Districts to repair and maintain Highways and Public Works within the same, and to make and levy rates for defraying the expenses thereof,” it was enacted that if the major part of the persons qualified to become electors, in the manner in the said Ordinance mentioned within any District, should apply in writing to His Excellency the Governor, distinctly setting forth the boundaries of such District, and requesting that the same might be declared to be a District within the provisions of the said Ordinance, His Excellency might by Proclamation declare the same to be such District, and by such Proclamation should prescribe a period within which all claims to the right of voting at the election of the first and every succeeding Board of Commissioners for such District should be made. And whereas by an Act passed by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled “An Act to transfer certain powers and duties from the Governor and Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand to the Superintendent and the Provincial Treasurer of the Province of Auckland respectively,” it was amongst other things enacted that all the acts authorized or required to be performed by and all the powers giving to the said Governor by the said recited Ordinance should thenceforth cease to be performed by the said Governor, and should and might thereafter be performed and exercised as fully and effectually for all intents and purposes within the Province of Auckland by the Superintendent thereof as the same could before the passing of the said Act be done and exercised by the said Governor: And whereas the major part of the persons entitled to become Electors within the District hereinafter set forth have applied to me in manner in the said Ordinance directed, to declare the same to be a District within the provisions of the said Ordinance:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said powers and authorities in me vested, I, the said Superintendent, do hereby proclaim and declare that all the lands lying between the following boundaries, viz., On the North—the Northern boundary of lot 53, of the Parish of Paremorema, a straight line from the N.E. angle of lot 53 above named, to Waiti Stream at the point where it meets the common boundary of lots 16 and 61 of the Parish of Paremorema, and the Wai-iti stream, to the Waitemata River; on the East, the Waitemata River; on the South, the Southern boundary of lot 1, of the Parish of Waipareira; on the West, the Kumeu and Ararimu streams; comprising all roads and leading places within the above described boundaries, shall form a District within the provisions of the said Ordinance, to