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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout
the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be
called Resident Magistrates' Districts, and such
districts from time to time to abolish, and the
boundaries to define and alter, and in any such
proclamation to fix a time on and from which any
such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the
case may be: And whereas, by a proclamation bear-
ing date the twenty-fourth day of June, 1868, His
Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and in
exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in
him, did proclaim and constitute the districts of
Wellington and Wanganui as described in the
Schedule to the now reciting proclamation to be on
and from the first day of July, 1868, Resident Magis-
trates' Districts within the meaning and for the pur-
poses of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to define and alter the
boundaries of the districts of Wellington and Wan-
ganui, and to proclaim and constitute the districts of
Wanganui, Otaki, and Wellington in manner herein-
after appearing, so as to include within the said
districts of Wanganui, Otaki, and Wellington the
territory hitherto comprised in the districts of
Wellington and Wanganui, as defined and pro-
claimed in the proclamation of the twenty-fourth
day of June, 1868, aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and in exercise of the power and authority so vested
in me as aforesaid, do hereby, as from the seventh day
of September next, alter and define the boundaries of
the respective districts of Wellington and Wanganui,
and do proclaim and constitute the districts of
Wanganui; Otaki, and Wellington, as the same
respectively are described in the Schedule hereto, to
be, on and from the said seventh day of September,
1868, Resident Magistrates' Districts, within the
meaning and for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867."

SCHEDULE.
Wanganui.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
Taupo District, heretofore constituted and defined in
a proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, bearing date twenty-ninth day of
November, 1867; towards the East by the western
boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay; towards
the South by the northern boundary of the Otaki
District, hereinafter defined; towards the South-west
by the sea, from the northern boundary of the Otaki
District to the mouth of the Waitotara River; thence
towards the North-west, West and South, by the
Upper Wanganui District, heretofore constituted and
defined in the proclamation of the twenty-ninth day
of November, 1867, aforesaid; and again towards
the North-west by the boundary of the Province of
Taranaki to the south-west angle of the Taupo
District aforesaid.

Otaki.
This district is bounded on the North by a line
from a point on the West Coast, five miles north of
the mouth of the Rangitikei River, to the Manawatu
Gorge; thence towards the South-east and South by
the summit of the Tararua Range to the northern
extremity of the Wellington District, hereinafter
defined, and by the north-western and northern
boundaries of the said district to the Ferry at
Porirua; and thence towards the West by the sea to
the commencing point. Including the adjacent
Islands.
Wellington.
This district is bounded towards the North by a
right line from the Porirua Ferry to the north-west
corner of Section No. 34, Tukapu District; thence
along the northern boundary of the said section, and
a line in continuation of the same, to the summit of
the hills forming the watershed between Port Nichol-
son and Porirua; thence towards the North-west by
the summit of the said hills to the Tararua Range;
thence towards the South-east by the summit of the
Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Taourakira;
and thence towards the South and West by the sea
to the commencing point (Porirua Ferry). Including
the adjacent islands.