279. Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

western boundary of lot 45, part of the northern
boundary of lot 40, and the eastern boundary of said
lot 40 to the south-western angle of lot 43 of the
Parish of Mangapiko, towards the south-east by the
road which forms the southern boundaries of lots 40,
39A, 39, 38, 37, 35, 36, of the Parish of Mangapiko aforesaid;
thence by the road which forms the
western boundaries of lots 36, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29,
and 29A of the Parish of Mangapiko aforesaid;
towards the south-east by the road which forms the
south-eastern boundaries of lots 4, 5, 6, and 7 of last-
named parish; towards the south by the Mangapiko
river from the south-eastern angle of last-named lot
to the south-eastern angle of lot 124 of said parish,
thence by the southern boundaries of said lot 124 and lot
118, and the western boundaries of lots 115 and 110
of the Parish of Mangapiko aforesaid, and thence by
the road which forms the southern boundaries of lots
47, 46, 45, and 44 of the Parish of Ngaroto; and
towards the west by the road which forms the
western boundaries of said lot 44 and lots 43, 42, 41,
40, 39, and by the southern boundary of lot 1, all of
the Parish of Ngaroto aforesaid, and thence by the
Waipa river from the south-western angle of last-
named lot to the mouth of Heather’s creek; again
towards the north by Heather’s creek from the
Waipa river to the south-eastern angle of lot 295 of
the Parish of Tuhikaramea; and again towards the
west by the western boundaries of lots 295, 294, 292,
304, 305, 311, 312, 313, and 314 of the said Parish
of Tuhikaramea.

RANGIAOHIA EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Amended Boundaries.

Bounded towards the north by the road leading
from the north-western angle of lot 233 of the Parish
of Puniu to the south-western angle of lot 295 of
the said parish, thence by the eastern boundaries of
lots 294 and 292 of said parish; towards the north-
east by part of the north-eastern boundary of said
parish from the north-eastern angle of last-named lot
to the Confiscation boundary line; towards the
south-east by the Confiscation boundary line to the
Maungahoe creek; towards the south-west by the
Maungahoe creek aforesaid, and towards the west by
part of the eastern boundary of lot 126, from the
Maungahoe creek and the eastern boundaries of lots
122, 123, 124, 125, thence by the road leading from
lot 125 to lot 266, thence by the northern boundaries
of lots 266, 265, 264, 246, 244, 243, 243A, and
thence by the road forming the western boundaries
of lots 237 and 233, all of the Parish of Puniu aforesaid.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 12th June, 1876.

THE following Letter and Charter of a Corpora-
tion for the Town and Suburbs of Auckland,
are, by direction of His Honour the Superintendent,
re-published from the New Zealand Government
Gazette, of date the 5th September, 1851, for general
information.

VINCENT E. RICE,
For the Provincial Secretary.

Government House,
Wellington, 29th July, 1851.

SIR,—

I have the honour herewith to transmit a Procla-
mation which I have this day issued under the Great
Seal of the New Zealand Islands, which incorporates
the Town of Auckland and the settled portions of
the Auckland district into a Borough, and confers
upon the inhabitants of that Borough not only the
ordinary powers of an English Town Council, but
full powers of self-government on all matters of
local interest. As it is also intended to intrust to the
inhabitants of the Borough thus created the manage-
ment of a considerable portion of land fund raised
from the sale of Crown lands within the limits of
the Borough, and to place under their control the
management of various public institutions, I propose
to state in this despatch, for your information, the
several objects which have been held in view in the
preparation of the enclosed Charter.

2. You are aware that under the authority of
   Proclamations which have been already issued, the
   country in the vicinity of Auckland has been
   divided into Hundreds, the inhabitants of which
   have had conferred upon them the power of electing
   Wardens, in whose hands has been vested the power
   of making all requisite regulations connected with
   the depasturing of stock on the unsold lands within
   the limits of the Hundreds, of improving the
   common lands, and of carrying on certain public
   works and improvements. To enable the Wardens
   to effect these objects, all sums of money raised from
   depasturing licenses, or from the assessments on
   stock depastured within the limits of the Hundreds,
   and one-third of the gross proceeds of all Crown
   lands within the limits of the Hundreds which may
   be sold by the Crown, are to be placed at their
   disposal.

3. This system of dividing the country, so soon as
   it becomes tolerably populous, into Hundreds, has
   hitherto—in so far as it has been tried—worked
   well; and I propose that it should be constantly
   extended over the agricultural districts, as the in-
   crease of population in any particular locality renders
   it advisable to proclaim a Hundred or Hundreds in
   that district. Indeed, I confidently expect that
   within a few years, the inhabitants of New Zealand
   will regard this right of being formed into small
   Municipalities for the management of the waste
   lands in their district, and for the expenditure of so
   considerable a portion of the land fund raised in it,
   as one of their most valuable and important privi-
   leges; and that it will be found that the incorpora-
   tion for these purposes of all the landed proprietors
   in the Colony will create throughout the entire coun-
   try bodies of considerable political influence, who
   will readily be able to resist any attempts (should
   such ever be made) on the part of the large stock-
   holders to acquire such rights over the Crown lands
   as might be injurious to the interests or future
   prospects of the less wealthy portions of the com-
   munity; whilst on the other hand the stockholders,
   being also by a recent law enabled to be in like
   manner incorporated for the management of large
   pastoral districts, will have the means, through
   regularly constituted bodies, of maintaining their
   rights, either as against any temporary party in the
   Legislature, or against the hostile interests or pre-
   judices of other classes of the community. I
   anticipate that from this adjustment of the respective
   rights of the two most important interests in this
   country there will result a better system for the
   administration of the waste lands of the Crown than
   has ever yet prevailed. At least, if such should not