THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 213

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 Ma-
jesty'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 Pro-
clamation 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 Pro-
clamation dividing the Colony or any part of
it anew into Districts, or increasing the num-
ber, 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 where-
as 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
he "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 Southeastern boundary of the
Tamaterau Block, by the Southern boundary
of Tamaterau to Wangarei Harbour, by a line
to Limestone Island, by the Mangapai chan-
nel, by the Southern boundary of the Maunga
Karamea block, and by the Tauraroa 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
the 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 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 Trigono-
metrical 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 South-
ern bank of the Ashley. On the Eastward
by a North and South line through Trigono-
metrical station C. 29; and on the Southward
by the Southern bank of the Wai Makiriri.

KAIAPOI DISTRICT.
Bounded on the Northward and Westward
by the Rangiora and Oxford Districts. On
the Eastward by the sea; and on the South-
ward by the Christchurch District (Southern
bank of Wai Makiriri.)

MOUNT GREY DISTRICT.
Bounded on the Northward by the Southern
bank of the Hurunui. On the Eastward the
sea; and on the Southward 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 Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the