Numb. 38. 335

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Weights and Measures Act,
1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor from time to time to appoint one
Inspector of Weights and Measures for any Province,
County, Borough, or District, or for each of two or
more divisions of any Province, County, Borough, or
District, the boundaries of which divisions shall be
proclaimed from time to time in the New Zealand
Gazette by the Governor: And whereas it is ex-
pedient that Inspectors should be appointed for the
divisions of the Province of Otago, the boundaries
whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, and
that the boundaries of such division should be pro-
claimed:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the power and authority conferred on
me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that for the purposes of the said Act there shall be
within the said Province of Otago a division or
district, the boundaries whereof shall be the boun-
daries set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE DISTRICT OF SOUTHLAND.

Bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the
River Mataura, and continued along the right bank of
the Mataura River to its source in the Eyre Moun-
tains; thence to the summit of Eyre Peak; thence
in a south-westerly direction to the junction of the
Windley, with the Oreti or New River; thence due
west to the River Waiau; thence along the left
bank of the Waiau to the sea; thence by the coast
line to the mouth of the Mataura.

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, at Wellington, this twenty-
eighth 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.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation under the hand
of me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, issued
under the Seal of the said Colony the fifth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the thirteenth day of the same month, No. 27,
after reciting as is therein particularly recited, I,
the said Governor, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority in me vested by "The
Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," did
proclaim and declare that the road within the North
Island of New Zealand described, and the boundaries
whereof were set forth in the Schedule thereto, and
which road is delineated on a plan numbered I.,
deposited in the office of the Public Works Depart-
ment at Wellington, in the Province of Wellington,
and thereon coloured red, and which plan was authenti-
cated for the purposes of the now reciting Procla-
mation by the signature of the Honorable William
Gisborne, the Minister for Public Works, should be
and be deemed to be a road under the provisions of
the said Act: And whereas in the said Schedule to
the said Proclamation it is stated that the estimated
length of the road line therein described is ten and
three-quarter miles, and the breadth thereof one
chain: And whereas a portion of the said road so
proclaimed as aforesaid has been ascertained to be
of a variable breadth, and it is expedient that the
same should be more accurately defined, and that the
said Proclamation should be altered in manner herein-
after appearing:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance
of the authority vested in me by "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1870," do hereby proclaim
and declare that the breadth of that portion of the
said road particularly described in the Schedule
hereto shall be as marked or shown in Plan No. 2 in
the Schedule to the said in part recited Proclamation
more particularly mentioned.

THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

That part of the said road, proclaimed by the said
in part recited Proclamation, which proceeds between
sections 36 and 37 in a general north-easterly direc-
tion for about 4 chains, including old line of road;