Numb. 34.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1869.

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 third day of September, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-eight, His Excel-
lency the Governor, in pursuance and in exer-
cise of the powers and authorities so vested in
him, did proclaim and constitute the District of
Otaki, as described in the Schedule to the now
reciting Proclamation, to be, on and from the seventh
day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, a Resident Magistrate's District
within the meaning and for the purposes of the said
Act:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the District
of Otaki as described in the Schedule to the said
Proclamation, and to constitute the districts described
in the Schedule hereto in lieu thereof:

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 first day
of July next, abolish the said District of Otaki
so constituted as aforesaid, and do hereby proclaim
and constitute the Districts of Otaki and Manawatu,
as the same respectively are described in the Schedule
hereto, to be, on and from the said first day of
July next, Resident Magistrates' Districts, within
the meaning and for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867."

297

SCHEDULE.

Otaki.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
southern boundary of the Manawatu District herein-
after defined, from the sea to the summit of the
Tararua Mountains; thence towards the South-west
by the summit of the said Tararua Mountains to the
northern extremity of the Wellington District, as
described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation
of the third day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight; thence again towards the
South-west and towards the South by the north-
western and northern boundaries of the said
Wellington District to the Ferry at Porirua; and
thence towards the West by the sea to the com-
mencing point. Including the adjacent Islands.

Manawatu.
This district is bounded towards the North by a
straight 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 by the summit of the Tararua Mountains to a
point due East of the most easterly source of the
Ohau River; thence towards the South by a straight
line due West to the most easterly source of the said
Ohau River, and by the south bank of the said
Ohau River to the sea; and thence towards the
West by the sea to the commencing point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this twenty-fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!