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DIEU ET SOIT QUI M

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint that on
and from the day of the date hereof there shall be
within the Province of Taranaki a Port, to be called

THE PORT OF PATEA,

the limits whereof shall be as follows:-All such
portions of the sea, land, and river comprised within a
circle with a radius of two miles from the west head
entrance to Patea River.

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 at Wel-
lington, this eighteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

HENRY SEWELL.

Governor's Order, No. 97.]

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1871.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867," the following
Petition from Inhabitant Householders of Auckland,
for the City of Auckland to be constituted a Borough,
and Letter of Assent from the Superintendent of
Auckland, are published for general information; and
it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
will consider the Petition on the 24th day of April
next.

W. GISBORNE.

To His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON
BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Honorable Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabi-
tant Householders resident within the City of
Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, the
boundaries whereof are hereinafter more par-
ticularly set forth.

SHOWETH,-

1. That the said City, with regard to levying rates
   for the purpose of making, maintaining, and repairing
   of the streets, lighting, sewerage, and other matters
   for the order and good government of the said City,
   is now under the management and control of a Board
   of Commissioners, which was first established by
   virtue of a Provincial Act intituled "The City Board
   Act, 1863," Session XV., No. 7, amended by "The
   City Board Act, 1863, Amendment Act," Session
   XVI., No. 6, and "The City Board Act Amendment
   Act, 1865," Session XVIII., No. 4.

2. That the boundaries of the said City are as
   follows:--Bounded on the North by the Waitemata
   Harbour; on the East by suburban section number
   ninety-six, by the middle of Stanley Street, from the
   south-western angle of section number eleven of the
   City of Auckland to the junction of Stanley Street
   and Grafton Road, by the middle of Grafton Road,
   from the junction of Stanley Street to the northern
   boundary of lot number forty-one of suburban section
   number three, and the northern boundary of lot
   the middle of Symonds Street, from the north-
   western angle of lot number eight of suburban section
   number fifteen to the junction of Karangahape Road;
   on the South by the middle of Karangahape Road,
   from Symonds Street to the junction of Ponsonby
   Road, and by the middle of Ponsonby Road; and on
   the West by the middle of Franklin Street.

3. That the said City contains fifteen thousand in-
   habitants, or thereabouts.

4. That the constitution of the said Board, and
   the powers conferred upon the Commissioners by the
   aforesaid Acts, are wholly inadequate to the proper