Numb. 73.
651

DIEU ET MON DROIT

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Outlying Districts Sale of
Spirits Act, 1870," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may, by Proclamation in that
behalf, from time to time, define districts and bring
the same under the operation of the said Act, and
may at any time, and from time to time thereafter,
alter the boundaries of such districts, or withdraw
any district or any part of any district from the
operation of the said Act, and also that no part of any
Town or City shall be brought under the operation
of the said Act, and also that no district shall be
defined or brought under the operation of the said
Act unless at least two-thirds of the inhabitants of
such districts are persons of the Native race:
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursu-
ance of the power and authority vested in him by the
said Act, doth hereby define the districts mentioned
in the Schedule hereto, and doth proclaim and declare
that the districts defined and mentioned in the said
Schedule shall be and the same are hereby brought
under the operation of the said Act, excepting any
towns or parts of towns included in the said districts.

SCHEDULE.

Mongonui.
This district comprises all that portion of the
Province of Auckland which lies to the north of a
line drawn from Herekino (False Hokianga) to the
summit of Maungataniwha, and of a line thence to
West Bay (north of Whangaroa Harbour); including
the adjacent Islands.

Bay of Islands.
This district is bounded towards the North-west
by the Mongonui District, hereinbefore defined;
towards the North and East by the sea; towards the
South by the southern boundaries of the Counties of
Bedford and Hokianga; and towards the South-west
by the sea; including the adjacent Islands.

Kaipara.
This district is bounded towards the North by part
of the southern boundary of the Bay of Islands
District hereinbefore defined, that is to say, from
Kokatu Point to the Wairoa River; thence towards
the East by the Whangarei District, defined in the
Schedule to a Proclamation of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, con-
stituting Resident Magistrates Districts under "The
Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," dated the 29th
day of November, 1867, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, Number 69, of the 21st day of
December, 1867, and by the sea to Okura; thence
towards the South by a line to Muriwai on the West
Coast; and thence on the South-west by the sea to
the commencing point; including the adjacent
Islands.

Hauraki.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
Frith of the Thames and the southern boundary of
the Coromandel District, defined in the Schedule to
the Proclamation before referred to, from Oreri
Point to Whangamata Bay; thence towards the
East by the sea to a point on the coast five miles
north of Kati Kati; thence towards the South by a
line to the summit of Te Aroha Mountain, and by a
line thence to the north-eastern angle of the Waikato
Military Settlements Block; thence towards the
West by a line to Hapuakohe Pass, by a line thence
to the most northerly source of the Maungatawhiri

ERRATUM.—In Gazette No. 55, 18th November, 1870, p. 592, for "Frederick Woollaston Hutton," read "Frederick
Wollaston Hutton."