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71

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

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 twenty-second day of Janu-
ary, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the
Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and
authority, did, amongst others, constitute a district
for the purposes of the said Act called the " Picton
District," in the Province of Marlborough, the
boundaries whereof were therein set forth, which
said Proclamation came into operation and took
effect on the first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the said Colony, in pursuance and 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 "Picton District," and do proclaim
and declare that the territory formerly comprised
within such district shall be and is hereby divided
for the purposes of the said Act into two districts,
the names and boundaries whereof shall be as
follows:-

PICTON DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the North and East by the coast
line from Alligator Head between Guards and Waitui
Bays, to the east end of the range of hills dividing
White's Bay from Robin Hood's Bay, including
Arapawa Island and all other islands in Queen
Charlotte Sound, Port Underwood, &c.; thence on
the South by a right line to a point in the Tua
Marina Valley five miles due north from the mouth
of the Tua Marina River; thence along a right line
(for about five miles) bearing to a point in the
Kaituna Valley seven miles from the Wairau River;
thence towards the West by a right line bearing
nearly due north to the summit of the range dividing
Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds, the said line
being a continuation of the dividing line between
Sections 34, 35, 36, 37, and x-39, 13, 12, 51, on the
plan of the District of Matiatipawa; thence by the
summit of the last-mentioned range to Alligator
Head.

PELORUS DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the East by the western boundary
of the Picton District from Alligator Head to the
south-west corner of the same district; thence by a
right line to a point in the Kaituna Valley seven
miles from the Wairau River; thence up a line to
the summit of the range of hills dividing the Pelorus
and Wairau Rivers; thence by a line along the said
summit to Mount Richmond; thence towards the
West and North-west by a right line to the Red
Hills; and thence by the North-western boundary of
the Province of Marlborough to Tennyson's Inlet.

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

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander 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, at the
Government House at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this first day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six. JAS. PATERSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!