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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and into the following Road Board Districts and
Townships in the said Province, viz. :-
The Town of Timaru, the Levels Road District,
the Geraldine Road District, and terminating at a
point situate in a line with the northern boundary of
the Township of Arowhenua, and about two chains
west of the north-west corner of the said township,
as the limits, description, and line thereof are set
forth in the plan, and described in the book of
reference referred to on the face of the said plan, and
which plan and book are authenticated for the
purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of
William Gisborne, the Minister for Public Works,
and are deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Christchurch, or within the limits
of deviation set forth on the said plan, being a distance
not exceeding one hundred and ten yards on either
side of the said line, and shown by a dotted red line,
and passing through, over, or under the several
sections of land, streets, roads, watercourses, and
places enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the
Timaru and Temuka Railway.

So much of the lands hereinafter mentioned as are
required for the said railway along the line of the
said railway hereinbefore defined, or within the limits
of deviation aforesaid, as the said lands are described
and defined in the plan and book of reference afore-
said.

TOWN OF TIMARU.
Land and sections in the town, being part of rural
sections 7555 and 730, and all intervening roads and
streets, together with the reserve of 100 feet above
high water, shown on the map of the Chief Surveyor
of the said Province, setting out and describing the
rural land in the District of Timaru.

THE LEVELS ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural sections 965, 884 (in red), 1298, 838, 8137,
2445, 2000, 2212, 2149, 1864, 7458, 4225, together
with the reserve of 100 feet above high water, the
Waimataitai Lagoon and the Railway Reserve,
coloured red in the plan referred to in the first
Schedule hereto, and which are more particularly
described on the map of the Chief Surveyor aforesaid.

GERALDINE ROAD DISTRICT.
Section 881 (in red), and the Railway Reserve
coloured red in the plan referred to in the first
Schedule hereto, and more particularly described on
the map of the Chief Surveyor aforesaid.

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 Public Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this fourteenth day of June,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of June, 1871.
Present :
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand

Native Reserves Act, 1856," certain powers therein
specified are vested in the Commissioners under the
said Act: And whereas by another Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Native Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," all the
powers and authorities which by "The New Zealand
Native Reserves Act, 1856," are given to or vested
in, or which may be exercised by, Commissioners
appointed or to be appointed under that Act, shall
vest in and may be exercised by the Governor; and
it is by the said Act further enacted that the
Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to
time delegate all or any of the powers competent to
the Commissioners under the said Act unto any
person or persons for any period, and subject to any
regulations or stipulations as may be specified in
such Order:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, in exercise of the power and authority
so vested in him as Governor as aforesaid, doth by
this Order in Council delegate, until this Order shall
shall be revoked, to

SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq.,

all the powers competent to Commissioners under
the said first-recited Act, without any restrictions or
stipulations whatever.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

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, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand,
from time to time to appoint Polling Places for each
Electoral District, within or within one mile of the limits
thereof, and to appoint any one of such Polling Places
to be the Principal Polling Place for the District,
and all or any of such Polling Places from time to
time to abolish, and, if he think fit, to appoint other
Polling Places in lieu of those abolished, and that
every such Warrant shall be published in the New
Zealand Gazette: Provided always that no Polling
Place shall be appointed by the Governor under the
said Act unless he shall be first satisfied that the
place to be appointed is more convenient than any
other for at least twenty electors to record their
votes thereat:

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the
Governor certain places were appointed Polling
Places in the Province of Canterbury, for the elec-
tion of Members of the Provincial Council thereof,
for the Districts of the Town of Lyttelton, Port
Victoria, and Oxford:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act,
do hereby abolish all existing Polling Places for the
above-named Districts in the Province of Canterbury
for the election of Members of the Provincial Council
thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

For the Town of Lyttelton District :
Colonists' Hall, Lyttelton.

For Port Victoria District :
School House, Governor's Bay.

For Oxford District :
Road Board Office, Oxford.

And I do also hereby abolish the existing Principal
Polling Place for the District of Oxford, for the