Native District Orders in Council




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
members as may be afterwards added by
election or otherwise in pursuance of any
General or, Local Regulation in that behalf:
and any member may resign or be removed by
the Governor.
3. Every Regulation proposed by any Dis-
trict or Village Runanga to be put in force
within any such District, whether the same
shall be a General Regulation for the whole
District, or a Local Regulation for any part
thereof, shall be considered at a meeting of
the District or Village Runanga to be specially
held for the purpose: and the final adoption
thereof at such meeting by a majority of
such Runanga, shall be held to be the
ascertainment of the general assent thereto of
the Native population to be affected thereby,
within the meaning of the said Act: Pro-
vided that if on the presentation to the Gover-
nor of any such Regulations he shall think fit
to return the same to the Runanga with any
amendments therein, the Runanga shall con-
sider such amendments in like manner as afore-
said, and the final adoption in manner aforesaid
of the Regulations as so amended shall be held
to be the ascertainment of the general assent
thereto as aforesaid.
4. Whenever the Governor shall not have
constituted any District or Village Runanga
within any District appointed under the said
Act, the assent of the Native population to
any Regulations to be put in force therein shall
be ascertained by the Civil Commissioner of
the District (if any), or by such other Officer,
assisted by not less than two Native Assessors,
as may be designated by the Governor in that
behalf.
And His Excellency, with the advice and
consent aforesaid, doth declare that this
Order shall take effect, from and after the
thirty-first day of March, 1862.

HAMPDEN WILLIS.
Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Appointing District of "Waihou" under
the Native Districts Regulation Act.

G. GREY,
Governor.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
ON FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF
MARCH, 1862.

Present:—

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
the "Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to
appoint Districts for the purposes of the said
Act, being Districts over which the Native Title
shall not for the time being have been extin-
guished:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint
and declare that the Territory hereafter des-
cribed shall be a District for the purposes of
the said Act, that is to say:-All Territory
lying within a boundary line commencing at
Tauranga Harbour, and following the Northern
and Western boundary of the Bay of Plenty
District till it meets the Northern boundary of
the Upper Waikato District, thence following
the latter boundary till it meets the Eastern
boundary of the Lower Waikato District (as
the said Districts have respectively been con-
stituted by Orders in Council under the "Na-
tive Districts Regulation Act, 1858"); thence
along the last named boundary to the source
of the Mangatawhiri River; thence by a line
to the Wairoa River and by the Wairoa River
to its mouth; and thence by the coast line (in-
cluding Waiheke and adjacent Islands) to the
commencing point. Excepting lands over which
the Native title has been extinguished within
the meaning of the said Act:

And doth appoint and declare that the said
District shall be called the "Native District of
Waihou":

And doth declare that this Order shall take
effect from and after the 31st day of March,
1862.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Appointing District of "Manawatu" under
the Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858.

G. GREY,
Governor.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
ON FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF
MARCH, 1862.

Present:—

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
the "Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858," it
is provided that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
nor in Council from time to time to appoint
Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being
Districts over which the Native Title shall not
for the time being have been extinguished:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint,
and declare that the Territory hereafter des-
cribed shall be a District for the purposes of
the said Act, that is to say: All Territory
lying within a boundary line commencing at
the mouth of the Wangaehu River; thence by
that river to the Ruahine Range; thence fol-
lowing the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges to
Paekakariki Hill; thence westerly across
the Paekakariki Hill to the sea; and thence by
the coast line (including the Island of Kapiti)
to the commencing point:

And doth appoint and declare that the said
District shall be called the "Native District of
Manawatu."

And doth declare that this Order shall take
effect from and after the 31st day of March,
1862.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.



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