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A PROCLAMATION

Appointing certain Districts under the Registration Act.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Registration Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, by Proclamation in the 'New Zealand Gazette,' to divide the Colony of New Zealand for the purposes of the said Act into such and so many districts as he may think fit, and that every such district shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar's District, and it is provided that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it anew into districts, or increasing the number, or altering the boundaries of districts as from time to time he may think requisite; and whereas by a Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the Sixth day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine, the Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, did divide the said Colony for the purposes of the said Act into districts, the names and boundaries whereof are therein set forth, comprising amongst others the "Wangarei District," the "Waipu District," the "Kaiapoi District," and the "Mount Grey District;" and whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of the said Proclamation as relates to the said four districts, and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised within such districts:

Now therefore I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and further exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation so far as relates to the "Wangarei District" and the "Waipu District," and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such districts shall be divided for the purposes of the said Act into two districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

WANGAREI DISTRICT,
Bounded on the North by a line from Ruapekapeka to the source of the Ngunguru River, and by the channel of that river to the sea; on the East by the sea from Ngunguru to Pataua; on the South by that river and a line to the South-eastern boundary of the Tamaterau Block, by the Southern boundary of Tamaterau to Wangarei Harbour, by a line to Limestone Island, by the Mangapai Channel, by the Southern boundary of the Maunga Karamea block, and by the Tauraroa stream to the Wairoa; on the West by the West by the Wairoa and Wairua Rivers to Ruapekapeka.

WAIPU DISTRICT,
Bounded on the North by the Southern boundary of the Maunga Karamea block to the Mangapai channel, by that channel to Wangarei channel, South and West of Limestone Island, thence by a line to the Southern boundary of Tamaterau block, by that boundary and a line to the Pataua, and by the Pataua to the sea. On the East by the sea, from Pataua river to Bream Tail. On the South by a line along the range from Bream Tail to the Western boundary of the Waipu block. On the West by the boundaries of Waipu, Ruakaka, and Ruarangi blocks.

And, in pursuance and further exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, I do hereby revoke the said Proclamation, so far as relates to the said "Kaiapoi District" and the "Mount Grey District," and do further proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such districts shall be divided for the purposes of the said Act into four districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

RANGIORA DISTRICT,
Commencing on the South bank of the river Ashley where crossed by the North road, following along the road Southerly to its junction with the Rangiora road near Woodend, thence South-westerly in a direct line to Trigonometrical station M 17, thence Westerly in a direct line through Trigonometrical station M 40, till it meets a North and South line through Trigonometrical station C 29, thence Northerly along the said line to the Southern bank of the Ashley, and thence Easterly along the Southern bank of the Ashley to the commencing point.

OXFORD DISTRICT,
Bounded on the Northward by the Southern bank of the Ashley; on the Eastward by a North and South line through Trigonometrical station C 29; and on the Southward by the Southern bank of the Waimakariri.

KAIAPOI DISTRICT,
Bounded on the Northward and Westward by the Rangiora and Oxford districts; on the Eastward by the sea; and on the Southward by the Christchurch district (Southern bank of Waimakariri.)

MOUNT GREY DISTRICT,
Bounded on the Northward by the Southern bank of the Hurunui; on the Eastward by the sea; and on the Southward by the Southern bank of the Ashley.

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the First day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. G. Gazette, No. 33, August 16, 1861.