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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The humble Petition of the undersigned persons
being not less than fifty of the inhabitant
householders resident within the Town of
Hokitika, being one of the towns or places
mentioned in the first Schedule to "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"

SHEWETH—

1. Your Petitioners consider it to be necessary for
   the due government and improvement of the said
   Town of Hokitika, that the same should be brought
   under the operation of the said "Municipal Corpora-
   tions Act, 1867," and that the said Town of Hokitika
   should be constituted a Borough under the said Act.

2. That the boundaries of the said Town of
   Hokitika are as follows, and are specified in the
   proclamation by His Honor the Superintendent of
   the Province of Canterbury, of the 30th June, 1866,
   as follows:-All that piece or parcel of land con-
   taining 640 acres more or less, situate on the
   Hokitika River, commencing at a point on the high
   bank of the old bed of the aforesaid river, the said
   point being forty chains forty links West of Trigno-
   metrical Station 31; thence following a line bearing
   North 20 degrees 14 minutes East (magnetic), a
   distance of sixty-two chains sixty-five links; thence
   westerly at a right angle, a distance of eighty-five
   chains forty links to the sea beach, following the said
   beach southerly to the mouth of the Hokitika River;
   and from thence returning along the northern bank
   thereof, and the high bank of the old river bed above
   mentioned to the commencing point. And also all
   that parcel of land containing 640 acres more or less,
   situate on the Hokitika River, West Coast, bounded
   on the northward by Reserve 271 in red; on the
   westward by the sea; on the East by Section
   number 8238, and a line in continuation of the
   western boundary thereof; and on the southward
   by a line at right angles to the last described
   boundary, and about one hundred and thirty chains
   distant on the average from the reserve above
   mentioned.

3. The title of the Act under which the said Town
   of Hokitika has been, or is reputed to have been
   incorporated, is "The Hokitika Municipal Council
   Ordinance, 1867," and which said Act was made and
   passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council
   of the Province of Canterbury.

Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Excel-
lency will be pleased to constitute the said Town of
Hokitika a Borough under the provisions of the said
"Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," and to declare
by proclamation in the Government Gazette that all
the several parts of the said Act shall extend and be
applied to the said Town of Hokitika, from and after
a certain time to be named by your Excellency in
such proclamation.

And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever
pray, &c.

William Shaw,.
C. E. Button,
James J. Bunny,
John Higgin,
Robert Ecclesfield,
James McBeth,
G. A. Paterson,
John Logan,
W. E. Hay,
Louis C. McDermott,
Chantrey Harris,
Joseph Pearce,
William Rex,
A. J. Mills,
H. J. Phillips,
H. L. Yates,
George Harper,
Richard Christopher,
D. McKellar,
W. M. Hare
Thos. McKnight,
Andrew Moir,
S. D. Schmidt,
Thomas Donley,
G. W. Harvey,
Henry Horner,
Thos. N. Procter,
John Alfred Roscow,
Wm. Roberts,
Peter Hansen,
Thomas Powell,
James Linton,
Robert Whyte,
William Gawne,
C. Malpas,
George Turner,
John Stephens,
Orr and Co.,
Tait Brothers,
Thos. Nimmo and Co.,
Francis L. Clarke,
D. Macfarlane and Co.,
P. Solomon,
James R. Anderson,
Thomas Samuel,
G. Renwick,
W. Kenney,
John Hanz,
M. Rouse,
L. Cosgrave and Co.,
Speir and Murray,
Thomas Buxton,
S. F. W. Isaacs,
James Hird,
Everard W. Jones,
William Wilson, per his Attorney, E. W. Jones.
S. M. Saloman,
James McCaughan,
Bailie and Humphrey,
Anderson and Mowat,
H. C. Richmond,
P. Clayton,
John Casey,
L. R. Klein,
James Browne,
Jones and Mee,
Henry Cornfoot,
Mee and Marks.

I, Peter Clayton, of Hokitika, in the County of
Westland, New Zealand, rate collector, do solemnly
and sincerely declare that all the signatures affixed
to the above Petition are the genuine signatures of
the persons whose they purport to be, and that such
persons are inhabitant householders of the district
therein referred to.

PETER CLAYTON.

Wellington, 10th June, 1868.

SIR,—A Petition, praying your Excellency to
constitute the Town of Hokitika, in the County
of Westland, a Borough under "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1867," having been transmitted
to me by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, in pursuance
of the provisions of the twenty-second section of the
said Act, I have the honor to signify to your Excel-
lency that I do not dissent to the prayer of that
Petition.

I have, &c.,
JOHN HALL.

His Excellency Sir George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.