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May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the same day, the Auckland Militia District was constituted: And whereas by an Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 18th day of May, 1866, the Middle Waikato Militia District was constituted: And whereas inconvenience has arisen from the constitution of the said districts, and it is expedient that the same should be abolished, and that new districts respectively should be constituted:—

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in exercise of the above-recited power, doth by this present order abolish the said Militia Districts, and doth constitute four several Militia Districts, to be called and known by the several names following, namely:—

Auckland, Waikato, Wairoa and Middle Waikato Districts.

Of the Auckland Militia District the boundaries shall be as follow:—By the coast line of the Manukau Harbour from the Papakura Bridge to the Whau landing-place; thence by a straight line to the Whau Creek; thence by the Whau Creek to its junction with the Waitemata; thence by the coast line of the Waitemata and the Tamaki Strait to the South Head of the Wairoa River; thence by a straight line to the commencing point at the Papakura Bridge.

Of the Waikato Militia District the boundaries shall be as follow:—From the mouth of the Waikato River by the sea coast to the South Head of the Manukau Harbour; thence by the coast line of the Manukau Harbour to a point one mile to the westward of the bridge across Slippery Creek, near Drury; thence by a line running parallel to and one mile to the westward of the Great South Road to the Waikato River; thence by the Waikato River to the commencing point at its mouth.

Of the Wairoa Militia District the boundaries shall be as follow:—On the West by the eastern boundary of the Waikato District, from the Waikato River to the point of junction with the Manukau Harbour; thence by the coast line of the Manukau Harbour to Papakura Bridge; thence by the southern boundary of the Auckland District to the South Head of the Wairoa River; thence by the coast line to the mouth of the Pukorokoro Creek; thence by a straight line to the commencing point on the Waikato River.

Of the Middle Waikato Militia District the boundaries shall be as follow:—Circumference of a circle having a radius of fifteen miles from a point on the Opouati River, one mile from its junction with the River Waikato, except so much of the area within the said circle as is comprised in the Waikato and Wairoa Districts.

(Signed) Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested by the seventh section of the “Militia Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THE HONORABLE DANIEL POLLEN
to be my Deputy, for the purpose of directing from time to time, as occasion may arise, the respective Officers commanding the Auckland Militia Districts in any part of the Province of Auckland, to draw out for Actual Service with all convenient speed the whole or any part of the men of the Militia in the said Districts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, 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 at the Government House at Wellington this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

T. M. HAULTIN.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

WHEREAS by “The Militia Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, or such person as he shall from time to time, by Warrant under his hand, appoint as his Deputy for that purpose to direct the Officer Commanding the Militia of any District, with all convenient speed to draw out for Actual Service such Militia force: Now know ye, that I, Daniel Pollen, the Deputy appointed for that purpose, by Warrant under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby order and direct you, Daniel Henderson Luske, the officer Commanding the Militia of the Waikato District with all convenient speed, to draw out for Actual Service the whole Militia force within the said District of Waikato.

Given under my hand at Auckland this twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

DANIEL POLLEN.

HAMILTON HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Mr. T. H. W. Monro of Hamilton, has been appointed Collector of Rates for the above district.

G. H. Beere,
Chairman.

Hamilton, February, 1868.