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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 14

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✨ Order in Council

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G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
this twenty-first day of July, 1869.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the “Petty Sessions Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the Governor, from time to time, by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute and define districts within and for which Courts of Petty Sessions shall be held, and such districts or any of them may from time to time, in manner aforesaid, abolish, and the boundaries thereof may define and alter;

And whereas, by an Order in Council bearing date the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the Waipaoa District was constituted and defined under the said Act, and it is expedient to alter the boundaries of the said district;

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in him vested for this purpose, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, abolish the District of Waipaoa so defined as aforesaid, and doth hereby constitute and define the district following to be a district within and for which Courts of Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the said Act; that is to say—

PROVINCE OF HAWKE’S BAY.

Waipaoa District.

This district is bounded as follows:—
Commencing at Mount Park on the Ruahine Range by a line nearly due East to the west point of the Kereru Bush, skirting the southern boundary of the said bush to the boundary of Smith’s and Carlyon’s Runs; by the said boundary to the source of the Manga-o-noku Stream, following the Manga-o-noku down stream till it intersects the road leading from Maraekakaho to Hampden; thence in an easterly direction to the northern point of the Ruakawa Bush; thence due East to the Tuki Tuki River, near Ngawhakatatara; thence, following up the Tuki Tuki to Tamumu, crossing that river and proceeding up to Mangamahaki and the Mangarouhi; thence along the Mangarouhi to the southern boundary of the Hapuku Block, along that line in a westerly direction to the northern edge of the Forty-Mile Bush, along the edge to the Makaretu River to its source in the Ruahine Range; thence along the western boundary of the Province of Hawke’s Bay to the starting point.

Forster Goring,
Clerk to the Executive Council.