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A PROCLAMATION
Appointing certain Districts under the
Marriage 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., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Marriage Act
Amendment 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 autho-
rity 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 Rua-
pekapeka 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 the 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 Tauoroa
stream to the Wairoa; on 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 Lime-
stone Island, thence by a line to the Southern
boundary of Tamaterau Block, by that boun-
dary 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 de-
clare that the territory formerly comprised
within such districts shall be divided for
the purposes of the said Act into four dis-
tricts, 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 di-
rect 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 Trigonome-
trical 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 com-
mencing point.

OXFORD DISTRICT,
Bounded on the Northward by the Southern
bank of the Ashley; on the Eastward by a
North and South line through Trigonome-
trical 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 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. 38, August 16, 1861.