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DIEU ET MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," it is enacted that the district comprised within any of the cities, towns, or places therein particularly specified, incorporated or reputed to have been incorporated as therein mentioned (including, amongst other cities and towns or places, the city hereinafter named and specified), may, upon the performance or happening of the conditions and upon compliance with the terms by the said Act imposed, by Proclamation of the Governor, be constituted a borough under the said Act: And whereas the conditions and terms by the said Act imposed for the constitution as a borough of the district within the city hereinafter specified have been duly performed, have happened, and have been complied with:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district comprised within

THE CITY OF AUCKLAND,

as the boundaries thereof are defined in and by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," to be a borough under the said Act.

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; and issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony this twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, may, as to parts within the North Island of New!Zealand, define the roads and the boundaries thereof, and the bridges and ferries, which shall be and be deemed to be roads, bridges, or ferries, as the case may be, under the provisions of the said Act, and any such Proclamation may include existing roads, but no such roads or parts of roads shall be included if they are, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, roads which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province wherein such roads are situated (as well as new road lines); and the Governor from time to time may revoke or alter any such Proclamation: And whereas in the opinion of me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, and the Executive Council of New Zealand, the road defined in the Schedule hereunto is not a road which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the road within the North Island of New Zealand described, and the boundaries whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, and which road is delineated on a plan numbered I., deposited in the Office of the Public Works Department at Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, and thereon coloured red, and which plan is authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable William Gisborne, the Minister for Public Works, shall be and be deemed to be a road under the provisions of the said Act.

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, this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!