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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of July, 1869.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the Governor, from time to
time, by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute
and define districts within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions respectively shall be held, and such
districts, or any of them, may from time to time in
manner aforesaid abolish, and the boundaries thereof
may define or alter:

And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date
the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, His Excellency the Governor,
in pursuance and in exercise of the power in that
behalf vested in him as aforesaid, did define the
District of Whangarei, in the Province of Auckland,
to be a district within and for which Courts of Petty
Sessions should be held for the purposes of the said
Act: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
district aforesaid, and to define districts within the
Province of Auckland within and for which Courts
of Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the
said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power in this behalf
vested in him as aforesaid, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, abolish the District of Whangarei, within the
Province of Auckland, defined in the said Order in
Council, and, with the like advice and consent, doth
hereby define the districts following to be districts
within and for which Courts of Petty Sessions shall
be held for the purposes of the said Act, that is to
say:—

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

Whangarei Heads District.

This district is bounded towards the East and South
by the sea from the head of Rocky Bay to the south-
eastern boundary of the Parish of Tamaterau; thence
towards the North-west and West by the south-
eastern and eastern boundaries of the said Parish of
Tamaterau to its most north-eastern angle; thence
by a straight line to the most eastern angle
of the Parish of Paraheke, and thence by a straight
line due North till it meets a straight line drawn
from Kohatu Point to the head of Rocky Bay; and
thence towards the North by part of the said line to
the commencing point.

Whangarei District.

This district is bounded towards the East and South-
east by the western and north-western boundaries
of the Whangarei Heads District hereinbefore defined,
from the north-western angle of the said Whangarei
Heads District to the Whangarei Harbour, and thence
by the waters of the said Whangarei Harbour
to the southern boundary of the Parish of Maungata-
pere; thence towards the South by the southern
boundary of the said Parish of Maungatapere, and a
straight line in continuation thereof to the Wairua
River; thence towards the North-west by the said
Wairua River to the north-eastern boundary of the
Parish of Hikurangi; thence towards the North-east
by the north-eastern boundary of the said Parish of
Hikurangi; and thence towards the North by part of
a line drawn from Kohatu Point to the head of Rocky
Bay, to the commencing point.

Mangapai District.

This district is bounded towards the North and
East by the Whangarei District hereinbefore defined
from the Wairua River to the Whangarei Harbour,
and by the waters of the said Whangarei Harbour
and the sea to the north head of Ruakaka River;
thence towards the South-east by a line to the south-
eastern angle of the Parish of Mangapai, and thence
by the south-eastern boundary of the said Parish of
Mangapai to the north-eastern boundary of the Parish
of Ruarangi; thence towards the North-east by part
of the north-eastern boundary of the said Parish of
Ruarangi; thence towards the South-west by the
south-western boundaries of the Parishes of Ruarangi
and Maungakaramea to the Waionepu River, and
thence by a straight line to the junction of the Wairua
and the Mangakahia Creek; and thence towards the
North-west by the said Wairua River to the com-
mencing point.

Waipu District.

This district is bounded towards the North-east,
South-west, and North-west by the Mangapai District
hereinbefore defined, from the Tauraroa River to the
north head of Ruakaka River; thence towards the
East by the sea to the south-eastern angle of the
Parish of Waipu; thence towards the South by the
southern boundaries of the Parishes of Waipu and
Mareretu to the south-western boundary of the last-
mentioned parish; thence towards the South-west by
the south-western boundary of the said Parish of
Mareretu, and by the Manganui River to its junction
with the Tauraroa River; and thence towards the
North-west by the said Tauraroa River to the com-
mencing point.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from
time to time to appoint polling places for each
Electoral District, within or without the limits
thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be
the principal polling place for the district, and all or
any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and
to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority in him vested
by the said Act, doth hereby appoint the following
places to be additional polling places for the Electoral
District hereinafter specified, for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, namely—

For the District of Wallace—

The School House, Tapanui.
The Court House, Switzers.

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.